Office Manager salary in Morristown, TN

Pay in Morristown against Tennessee and the US

Office managers at the 90th percentile earn $95,440, 2.5 times the 10th percentile; the US ratio is 2.3. The middle half of office managers in Morristown earns $46,930–$76,610. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is $29,680 wide, between the figure for Tennessee ($32,470) and the US figure ($29,140).

What to budget for an office manager here

The step from the 25th percentile to the median is $12,860 a year; from the median to the 75th it is $16,820, or about $21,703 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 Morristown, and the Tennessee statewide median of $66,390 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in Morristown

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 $17,358 to the $59,790 median and brings it to $77,148 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 Morristown

Of the 17 roles we track in Morristown, this one ranks #5 by median pay, between recruiters ($59,820) and sales development representatives ($57,920). Project Coordinator is the highest at $82,720.

Measured against the US median, office managers rank #6 of the 17 roles we track in Morristown (-14.0%), between administrative assistants (-13.7%) and e-commerce order specialists (-15.4%). The typical role here is at -17.2%, so, measured against the US, office managers cost more in Morristown than the area's general pay level would suggest. Office managers hold 12.8% of the jobs in these 17 roles in Morristown, 13.7% across Tennessee and 9.1% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Tennessee

Across the 14 areas of Tennessee with data for this job, the median runs from $59,040 in the East Tennessee nonmetro area to $73,060 in Nashville-Murfreesboro, a gap of $14,020 a year. Of the 12 areas in Tennessee with more office managers than Morristown, 3 pay less: Johnson City, TN ($59,420), the North Central Tennessee nonmetro area ($59,610) and Cleveland, TN ($59,190).

Morristown against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Morristown is #405 of 517 US areas for this job. The market is small, and its pay sits near the middle of the US range. Outside Tennessee, College Station-Bryan and Las Cruces pay just above Morristown and Goldsboro and Corpus Christi just below. All four are within $40 a year of the median in Morristown. Of the three markets with about as many office managers, one pays more.

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