Office Manager salary in the Eastern and Southern Colorado nonmetro area

Pay in the Eastern and Southern Colorado nonmetro area against Colorado and the US

The middle half of office managers in the Eastern and Southern Colorado nonmetro area earns $56,470–$81,540. The top tenth earns $99,770 or more, 2.2 times the bottom tenth, close to the US pattern of 2.3 times. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is only $25,070 wide, against $33,740 across Colorado and $29,140 nationally: employers in the Eastern and Southern Colorado nonmetro area pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for an office manager here

The step from the 25th percentile to the median is $12,670 a year; from the median to the 75th it is $12,400, or about $16,000 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 $69,500 falls between the median and the 75th percentile in the Eastern and Southern Colorado nonmetro area, and the Colorado statewide median of $76,600 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in the Eastern and Southern Colorado 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 $20,073 to the $69,140 median and brings it to $89,213 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 Eastern and Southern Colorado nonmetro area

Of the 16 roles we track in the Eastern and Southern Colorado nonmetro area, this one ranks #4 by median pay, between accountants ($76,530) and paralegals ($69,110). Project Coordinator is the highest at $96,080.

Measured against the US median, office managers rank #5 of the 16 roles we track in the Eastern and Southern Colorado nonmetro area (-0.5%), between virtual receptionists (+1.4%) and medical administrative assistants (-1.0%). The typical role here is at -4.9%, so, measured against the US, office managers cost more in the Eastern and Southern Colorado nonmetro area than the area's general pay level would suggest. Office managers hold 12.4% of the jobs in the 15 of these roles with a job count in the Eastern and Southern Colorado nonmetro area, 9.3% across Colorado and 9.9% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Colorado

Across the 10 areas of Colorado with data for this job, the median runs from $66,290 in the Southwest Colorado nonmetro area to $79,450 in Boulder, a gap of $13,160 a year. Of the 7 areas in Colorado with more office managers than the Eastern and Southern Colorado nonmetro area, 1 pays less: the Southwest Colorado nonmetro area ($66,290).

the Eastern and Southern Colorado nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Eastern and Southern Colorado nonmetro area is #331 of 517 US areas for this job. It is a mid-sized market, and its pay is in the top quarter of US areas. Outside Colorado, Appleton and Rochester pay just above the Eastern and Southern Colorado nonmetro area and Harrisonburg and Kahului-Wailuku just below. All four are within $510 a year of the median in the Eastern and Southern Colorado nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many office managers, none pays as much.

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