Marketing Specialist salary in Vallejo, CA

Pay in Vallejo against California and the US

The middle half of marketing specialists in Vallejo earns $55,620–$99,800. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $133,020, only 3.0 times the bottom tenth, against 3.6 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. The mean ($81,900) is 11% 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 $44,180 wide, against $69,340 across California and $49,960 nationally: employers in Vallejo pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for a marketing specialist here

An offer at the 75th percentile instead of the median adds $26,330 a year in pay and about $33,974 in employer cost. Going down to the 25th percentile saves $17,850 in pay. 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 Vallejo, and the California statewide median of $94,700 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in Vallejo

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 $21,330 to the $73,470 median and brings it to $94,800 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 Vallejo

Of the 17 roles we track in Vallejo, this one ranks #7 by median pay, between paralegals ($79,280) and payroll specialists ($63,170). Project Coordinator is the highest at $106,520.

Measured against the US median, marketing specialists rank #16 of the 17 roles we track in Vallejo (-6.7%), between e-commerce order specialists (+2.4%) and sales development representatives (-11.6%). The typical role here is at +14.4%, so, measured against the US, marketing specialists cost less in Vallejo than the area's general pay level would suggest. Marketing specialists hold 3.6% of the jobs in these 17 roles in Vallejo, 7.1% across California and 5.7% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in California

Across the 28 areas of California with data for this job, the median runs from $60,540 in El Centro to $141,960 in San Jose-Sunnyvale, a gap of $81,420 a year. Of the 16 areas in California with more marketing specialists than Vallejo, 6 pay less, the largest of them Riverside-San Bernardino, CA ($69,840), Fresno, CA ($62,880) and Bakersfield-Delano, CA ($69,910).

Vallejo against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Vallejo is #230 of 514 US areas for this job. It is a mid-sized market, and its pay is in the top quarter of US areas. Outside California, Milwaukee-Waukesha and Greensboro-High Point pay just above Vallejo and Portland-South Portland and Palm Bay-Melbourne just below. All four are within $590 a year of the median in Vallejo. Of the three markets with about as many marketing specialists, one pays more.

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