Office Manager salary in the Hawaii-Kauai nonmetro area

Pay in the Hawaii-Kauai nonmetro area against Hawaii and the US

The middle half of office managers in the Hawaii-Kauai nonmetro area earns $49,920–$75,760. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $92,430, 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 only $25,840 wide, against $28,360 across Hawaii and $29,140 nationally: employers in the Hawaii-Kauai nonmetro area pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for an office manager here

An offer at the 75th percentile instead of the median adds $13,970 a year in pay and about $18,026 in employer cost. Going down to the 25th percentile saves $11,870 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 Hawaii-Kauai nonmetro area, and the Hawaii statewide median of $63,080 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in the Hawaii-Kauai nonmetro area

At the $61,790 median, a local hire costs about $79,729 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $17,939 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 Hawaii-Kauai nonmetro area

Of the 15 roles we track in the Hawaii-Kauai nonmetro area, this one ranks #7 by median pay, between payroll specialists ($62,200) and administrative assistants ($51,560). Project Coordinator is the highest at $75,440.

Measured against the US median, office managers rank #10 of the 15 roles we track in the Hawaii-Kauai nonmetro area (-11.1%), between HR assistants (-6.9%) and recruiters (-12.9%). The typical role here is at -2.8%, so, measured against the US, office managers cost less in the Hawaii-Kauai nonmetro area than the area's general pay level would suggest. Office managers hold 19.8% of the jobs in these 15 roles in the Hawaii-Kauai nonmetro area, 18.8% across Hawaii and 9.2% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Hawaii

Across the 3 areas of Hawaii with data for this job, the median runs from $61,790 in the Hawaii-Kauai nonmetro area to $68,630 in Kahului-Wailuku, a gap of $6,840 a year. The one area in Hawaii with more office managers, Honolulu, HI ($62,980), also pays more.

the Hawaii-Kauai nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Hawaii-Kauai nonmetro area is #150 of 517 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Hawaii, Roanoke and Michigan City-La Porte pay just above the Hawaii-Kauai nonmetro area and Dalton and Decatur just below. All four are within $50 a year of the median in the Hawaii-Kauai nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many office managers, one pays more.

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