Marketing Specialist salary in Portland-Vancouver, OR-WA

Pay in Portland-Vancouver against Oregon and the US

Marketing specialists at the 90th percentile earn $163,440, 3.3 times the 10th percentile; the US ratio is 3.6. The middle half of marketing specialists in Portland-Vancouver earns $62,850–$124,900. The mean ($97,230) is 14% over the median, so a group of high earners pulls the average up; price a typical hire from the median. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is $62,050 wide, wider than in Oregon as a whole ($47,130) and the US ($49,960), so what a marketing specialist earns in Portland-Vancouver depends more on the employer.

What to budget for a marketing specialist here

Pay climbs faster above the median than below it here: the 75th percentile is $39,550 over the median, the 25th only $22,500 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $51,032 a year in employer cost. These percentiles describe what people in the job earn locally, not experience levels, so place your offer by the tasks and seniority you need.

For scale, the US median of $78,760 falls between the 25th percentile and the median in Portland-Vancouver, and the Oregon statewide median of $79,150 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in Portland-Vancouver

At the $85,350 median, a local hire costs about $110,129 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $24,779 here. Recruiting, equipment and office space come on top. Benefit levels vary by employer, so treat this as an estimate.

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Other roles in Portland-Vancouver

Of the 17 roles we track in Portland-Vancouver, this one ranks #3 by median pay, between accountants ($92,200) and recruiters ($80,100). Project Coordinator is the highest at $108,340.

Measured against the US median, marketing specialists rank #12 of the 17 roles we track in Portland-Vancouver (+8.4%), between customer support specialists (+8.7%) and sales development representatives (+7.0%). The typical role here is at +9.9%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Marketing specialists hold 6.7% of the jobs in these 17 roles in Portland-Vancouver, 5.9% across Oregon and 5.7% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Oregon

Across the 11 areas of Oregon with data for this job, the median runs from $61,740 in the Coast Oregon nonmetro area to $85,350 in Portland-Vancouver, a gap of $23,610 a year. No other area in Oregon has as many marketing specialists, and all 10 others pay less.

Portland-Vancouver against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Portland-Vancouver is #22 of 514 US areas for this job. It is one of the larger markets for this job and one of the better-paying ones. Outside Oregon, Greeley and Springfield pay just above Portland-Vancouver and Providence-Warwick and Rochester just below. Of the three markets with about as many marketing specialists, none pays as much.

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