Office Manager salary in the Eastern Ohio nonmetro area

Pay in the Eastern Ohio nonmetro area against Ohio and the US

The middle half of office managers in the Eastern Ohio nonmetro area earns $45,610–$74,990. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $85,090, only 2.1 times the bottom tenth, against 2.3 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is $29,380 wide, wider than in Ohio as a whole ($27,110) and the US ($29,140), so what a office manager earns in the Eastern Ohio nonmetro area depends more on the employer.

What to budget for an office manager here

An offer at the 75th percentile instead of the median adds $14,940 a year in pay and about $19,277 in employer cost. Going down to the 25th percentile saves $14,440 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 $69,500 falls between the median and the 75th percentile in the Eastern Ohio nonmetro area, and the Ohio statewide median of $64,220 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in the Eastern Ohio nonmetro area

At the $60,050 median, a local hire costs about $77,484 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $17,434 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 Eastern Ohio nonmetro area

Of the 17 roles we track in the Eastern Ohio nonmetro area, this one ranks #6 by median pay, between executive assistants ($60,150) and sales development representatives ($54,140). Project Coordinator is the highest at $82,950.

Measured against the US median, office managers rank #10 of the 17 roles we track in the Eastern Ohio nonmetro area (-13.6%), between data entry specialists (-10.8%) and recruiters (-14.6%). The typical role here is at -10.8%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Office managers hold 11.1% of the jobs in these 17 roles in the Eastern Ohio nonmetro area, 8.8% across Ohio and 9.1% nationally. The job is a bigger 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 $57,510 in Mansfield to $69,880 in Cincinnati, a gap of $12,370 a year. Of the 10 areas in Ohio with more office managers than the Eastern Ohio nonmetro area, 2 pay less: the North Northeastern Ohio nonmetro area ($59,510) and Youngstown-Warren, OH ($58,870).

the Eastern Ohio nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Eastern Ohio nonmetro area is #213 of 517 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Ohio, Montgomery and Jackson pay just above the Eastern Ohio nonmetro area and Kankakee and Hagerstown-Martinsburg just below. All four are within $60 a year of the median in the Eastern Ohio nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many office managers, all three pay more.

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