Marketing Specialist salary in Youngstown-Warren, OH

Pay in Youngstown-Warren against Ohio and the US

The middle half of marketing specialists in Youngstown-Warren earns $46,130–$76,950. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $98,240, only 2.6 times the bottom tenth, against 3.6 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. The mean ($65,280) is 9% 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 $30,820 wide, against $45,650 across Ohio and $49,960 nationally: employers in Youngstown-Warren pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for a marketing specialist here

The step from the 25th percentile to the median is $13,570 a year; from the median to the 75th it is $17,250, or about $22,258 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 Youngstown-Warren, and the Ohio statewide median of $72,790 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 Youngstown-Warren

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 $17,332 to the $59,700 median and brings it to $77,032 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 Youngstown-Warren

Of the 17 roles we track in Youngstown-Warren, this one ranks #4 by median pay, between recruiters ($60,570) and executive assistants ($59,570). Project Coordinator is the highest at $77,160.

Measured against the US median, marketing specialists rank #15 of the 17 roles we track in Youngstown-Warren (-24.2%), between executive assistants (-22.2%) and project coordinators (-24.6%). The typical role here is at -15.3%, so, measured against the US, marketing specialists cost less in Youngstown-Warren than the area's general pay level would suggest. Marketing specialists hold 3.4% of the jobs in these 17 roles in Youngstown-Warren, 5.3% across Ohio and 5.7% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Ohio

Across the 16 areas of Ohio with data for this job, the median runs from $56,550 in Mansfield to $77,010 in Columbus, a gap of $20,460 a year. Of the 10 areas in Ohio with more marketing specialists than Youngstown-Warren, 2 pay less: Canton-Massillon, OH ($59,660) and the Southern Ohio nonmetro area ($59,260).

Youngstown-Warren against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Youngstown-Warren is #208 of 514 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Ohio, Watertown-Fort Drum and Evansville pay just above Youngstown-Warren and Homosassa Springs and Baton Rouge just below. All four are within $70 a year of the median in Youngstown-Warren. Of the three markets with about as many marketing specialists, two pay more.

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