Marketing Specialist salary in the Wasatch Front Fringe Utah nonmetro area

Pay in the Wasatch Front Fringe Utah nonmetro area against Utah and the US

The middle half of marketing specialists in the Wasatch Front Fringe Utah nonmetro area earns $44,240–$74,620. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $101,760, only 2.8 times the bottom tenth, against 3.6 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. The mean ($66,180) 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 $30,380 wide, against $39,440 across Utah and $49,960 nationally: employers in the Wasatch Front Fringe Utah nonmetro area pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for a marketing specialist here

The step from the 25th percentile to the median is $15,880 a year; from the median to the 75th it is $14,500, or about $18,710 once benefits are added. 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 75th and 90th percentiles in the Wasatch Front Fringe Utah nonmetro area, and the Utah statewide median of $62,630 falls between the median and the 75th percentile. An offer at the national rate would beat what three quarters of local marketing specialists earn.

What a hire really costs in the Wasatch Front Fringe Utah nonmetro area

At the $60,120 median, a local hire costs about $77,574 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $17,454 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 the Wasatch Front Fringe Utah nonmetro area

Of the 14 roles we track in the Wasatch Front Fringe Utah nonmetro area, this one ranks #6 by median pay, between office managers ($62,860) and executive assistants ($59,020). Project Coordinator is the highest at $83,540.

Measured against the US median, this job is the lowest paid of the 14 roles we track in the Wasatch Front Fringe Utah nonmetro area (-23.7%); administrative assistants come first (+1.6%). The typical role here is at -9.5%, so, measured against the US, marketing specialists cost less in the Wasatch Front Fringe Utah nonmetro area than the area's general pay level would suggest. Marketing specialists hold 7.5% of the jobs in these 14 roles in the Wasatch Front Fringe Utah nonmetro area, 7.6% across Utah and 5.8% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Utah

Across the 7 areas of Utah with data for this job, the median runs from $58,230 in the High Desert Utah nonmetro area to $64,670 in Salt Lake City-Murray, a gap of $6,440 a year. Of the 4 areas in Utah with more marketing specialists than the Wasatch Front Fringe Utah nonmetro area, 2 pay less: Ogden, UT ($59,140) and St. George, UT ($58,310).

the Wasatch Front Fringe Utah nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Wasatch Front Fringe Utah nonmetro area is #212 of 514 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Utah, Bowling Green and Carson City pay just above the Wasatch Front Fringe Utah nonmetro area and Sandusky and Casper just below. All four are within $130 a year of the median in the Wasatch Front Fringe Utah nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many marketing specialists, one pays more.

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