Office Manager salary in Lake Charles, LA

Pay in Lake Charles against Louisiana and the US

Office managers at the 90th percentile earn $84,480, 2.3 times the 10th percentile; the US ratio is 2.3. The middle half of office managers in Lake Charles earns $45,060–$69,430. The mean ($59,400) 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 $24,370 wide, against $25,550 across Louisiana and $29,140 nationally: employers in Lake Charles pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for an office manager here

An offer at the 75th percentile instead of the median adds $14,470 a year in pay and about $18,671 in employer cost. Going down to the 25th percentile saves $9,900 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 75th and 90th percentiles in Lake Charles, and the Louisiana statewide median of $57,180 falls between the median and the 75th percentile. An offer at the national rate would beat what three quarters of local office managers earn.

What a hire really costs in Lake Charles

At the $54,960 median, a local hire costs about $70,916 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $15,956 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 Lake Charles

Of the 14 roles we track in Lake Charles, this one ranks #4 by median pay, between recruiters ($64,130) and marketing specialists ($51,080). Project Coordinator is the highest at $92,770.

Measured against the US median, office managers rank #10 of the 14 roles we track in Lake Charles (-20.9%), between medical administrative assistants (-20.7%) and customer support specialists (-21.6%). The typical role here is at -18.1%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Office managers hold 12.4% of the jobs in these 14 roles in Lake Charles, 12.9% across Louisiana and 9.4% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Louisiana

Across the 13 areas of Louisiana with data for this job, the median runs from $48,100 in the Southwest Louisiana nonmetro area to $61,710 in Baton Rouge, a gap of $13,610 a year. Of the 7 areas in Louisiana with more office managers than Lake Charles, 4 pay less, the largest of them Shreveport-Bossier City, LA ($53,100), Lafayette, LA ($51,630) and the Southwest Louisiana nonmetro area ($48,100).

Lake Charles against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Lake Charles is #267 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 Louisiana, Victoria and Lake Havasu City-Kingman pay just above Lake Charles and Anniston-Oxford and Gadsden just below. All four are within $450 a year of the median in Lake Charles. Of the three markets with about as many office managers, all three pay more.

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