Office Manager salary in the Eastern Region of Texas nonmetro area

Pay in the Eastern Region of Texas nonmetro area against Texas and the US

Office managers at the 90th percentile earn $93,480, 2.4 times the 10th percentile; the US ratio is 2.3. The middle half of office managers in the Eastern Region of Texas nonmetro area earns $47,000–$75,150. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is only $28,150 wide, against $31,540 across Texas and $29,140 nationally: employers in the Eastern Region of Texas 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 $11,900 a year; from the median to the 75th it is $16,250, or about $20,968 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 Region of Texas nonmetro area, and the Texas statewide median of $64,940 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in the Eastern Region of Texas nonmetro area

At the $58,900 median, a local hire costs about $76,000 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $17,100 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 Region of Texas nonmetro area

Of the 17 roles we track in the Eastern Region of Texas nonmetro area, this one ranks #6 by median pay, between paralegals ($59,200) and sales development representatives ($56,790). Project Coordinator is the highest at $77,270.

Measured against the US median, office managers rank #8 of the 17 roles we track in the Eastern Region of Texas nonmetro area (-15.3%), between executive assistants (-14.5%) and HR assistants (-16.9%). The typical role here is at -16.9%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Office managers hold 10.6% of the jobs in these 17 roles in the Eastern Region of Texas nonmetro area, 10.2% across Texas and 9.1% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Texas

Across the 32 areas of Texas with data for this job, the median runs from $49,010 in Brownsville-Harlingen to $76,240 in Austin-Round Rock, a gap of $27,230 a year. Of the 21 areas in Texas with more office managers than the Eastern Region of Texas nonmetro area, 8 pay less, the largest of them El Paso, TX ($57,930), McAllen-Edinburg, TX ($55,570) and the Hill Country Region of Texas nonmetro area ($58,880).

the Eastern Region of Texas nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Eastern Region of Texas nonmetro area is #215 of 517 US areas for this job. It is a mid-sized market, and its pay is in the bottom quarter of US areas. Outside Texas, Springfield and Hilton Head Island-Bluffton pay just above the Eastern Region of Texas nonmetro area and Youngstown-Warren and Greenville just below. All four are within $190 a year of the median in the Eastern Region of Texas nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many office managers, all three pay more.

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