Office Manager salary in Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN

Pay in Lafayette-West Lafayette against Indiana and the US

The middle half of office managers in Lafayette-West Lafayette earns $58,010–$84,110. The top tenth earns $104,420 or more, 2.2 times the bottom tenth, close to the US pattern of 2.3 times. The mean ($73,080) is 8% 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 $26,100 wide, against $29,190 across Indiana and $29,140 nationally: employers in Lafayette-West Lafayette pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for an office manager here

Pay climbs faster above the median than below it here: the 75th percentile is $16,510 over the median, the 25th only $9,590 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $21,303 a year in employer cost. 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 Lafayette-West Lafayette, and the Indiana statewide median of $69,490 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in Lafayette-West Lafayette

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 $19,626 to the $67,600 median and brings it to $87,226 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 Lafayette-West Lafayette

Of the 16 roles we track in Lafayette-West Lafayette, this one ranks #3 by median pay, between accountants ($77,740) and executive assistants ($64,970). Project Coordinator is the highest at $83,330.

Measured against the US median, office managers rank #2 of the 16 roles we track in Lafayette-West Lafayette (-2.7%), between administrative assistants (-0.6%) and bookkeepers (-4.5%). The typical role here is at -8.2%, so, measured against the US, office managers cost more in Lafayette-West Lafayette than the area's general pay level would suggest. Office managers hold 10.4% of the jobs in these 16 roles in Lafayette-West Lafayette, 8.2% across Indiana and 9.1% nationally. That is close to the national mix.

Other areas in Indiana

Across the 15 areas of Indiana with data for this job, the median runs from $60,400 in Muncie to $75,180 in Elkhart-Goshen, a gap of $14,780 a year. Of the 7 areas in Indiana with more office managers than Lafayette-West Lafayette, 5 pay less, the largest of them the Northern Indiana nonmetro area ($62,120), the Central Indiana nonmetro area ($66,040) and the Southern Indiana nonmetro area ($64,350).

Lafayette-West Lafayette against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Lafayette-West Lafayette is #295 of 517 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Indiana, Albany and Fargo pay just above Lafayette-West Lafayette and Miami-Fort Lauderdale and Louisville just below. All four are within $150 a year of the median in Lafayette-West Lafayette. Of the three markets with about as many office managers, none pays as much.

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