Marketing Specialist salary in the Southern Indiana nonmetro area

Pay in the Southern Indiana nonmetro area against Indiana and the US

The middle half of marketing specialists in the Southern Indiana nonmetro area earns $45,670–$82,380. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $99,280, only 2.9 times the bottom tenth, against 3.6 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. The mean ($65,510) is 10% 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 only $36,710 wide, against $36,970 across Indiana and $49,960 nationally: employers in the Southern Indiana nonmetro area pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for a marketing specialist here

Pay climbs faster above the median than below it here: the 75th percentile is $22,700 over the median, the 25th only $14,010 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $29,290 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 median and the 75th percentile in the Southern Indiana nonmetro area, and the Indiana statewide median of $63,700 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in the Southern Indiana nonmetro area

Pay is only part of it. Benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², which adds about $17,326 to the $59,680 median and brings it to $77,006 a year. 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 the Southern Indiana nonmetro area

Of the 17 roles we track in the Southern Indiana nonmetro area, this one ranks #6 by median pay, between sales development representatives ($60,720) and executive assistants ($56,320). Project Coordinator is the highest at $80,990.

Measured against the US median, marketing specialists rank #15 of the 17 roles we track in the Southern Indiana nonmetro area (-24.2%), between project coordinators (-20.8%) and executive assistants (-26.5%). The typical role here is at -14.5%, so, measured against the US, marketing specialists cost less in the Southern Indiana nonmetro area than the area's general pay level would suggest. Marketing specialists hold 4.3% of the jobs in these 17 roles in the Southern Indiana nonmetro area, 5.4% across Indiana and 5.7% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Indiana

Across the 15 areas of Indiana with data for this job, the median runs from $54,440 in Muncie to $66,390 in Columbus, a gap of $11,950 a year. All 6 areas in Indiana with more marketing specialists than the Southern Indiana nonmetro area also pay more, among them Indianapolis-Carmel, IN ($65,200) and Fort Wayne, IN ($61,730).

the Southern Indiana nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Southern Indiana nonmetro area is #178 of 514 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Indiana, Baton Rouge and Homosassa Springs pay just above the Southern Indiana nonmetro area and Canton-Massillon and Auburn-Opelika just below. All four are within $30 a year of the median in the Southern Indiana nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many marketing specialists, all three pay more.

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