Office Manager salary in the Northwest Illinois nonmetro area

Pay in the Northwest Illinois nonmetro area against Illinois and the US

Pay is more spread out here than nationally: the top tenth earns $101,700 or more, 2.7 times the bottom tenth, against 2.3 times across the US. Two offers for the same title can sit far apart. The middle half of office managers in the Northwest Illinois nonmetro area earns $49,240–$78,510. The mean ($68,290) 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 $29,270 wide, wider than in Illinois as a whole ($29,070) and the US ($29,140), so what a office manager earns in the Northwest Illinois nonmetro area depends more on the employer.

What to budget for an office manager here

An offer at the 75th percentile instead of the median adds $15,440 a year in pay and about $19,923 in employer cost. Going down to the 25th percentile saves $13,830 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 Northwest Illinois nonmetro area, and the Illinois statewide median of $69,010 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in the Northwest Illinois nonmetro area

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 $18,311 to the $63,070 median and brings it to $81,381 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 the Northwest Illinois nonmetro area

Of the 17 roles we track in the Northwest Illinois nonmetro area, this one ranks #4 by median pay, between recruiters ($70,130) and marketing specialists ($62,180). Project Coordinator is the highest at $96,420.

Measured against the US median, office managers rank #12 of the 17 roles we track in the Northwest Illinois nonmetro area (-9.3%), between bookkeepers (-8.5%) and accountants (-12.3%). The typical role here is at -7.4%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Office managers hold 8.4% of the jobs in these 17 roles in the Northwest Illinois nonmetro area, 6.9% across Illinois and 9.1% nationally. That is close to the national mix.

Other areas in Illinois

Across the 11 areas of Illinois with data for this job, the median runs from $57,630 in the South Illinois nonmetro area to $71,730 in Chicago-Naperville, a gap of $14,100 a year. Of the 3 areas in Illinois with more office managers than the Northwest Illinois nonmetro area, 1 pays less: the West Central Illinois nonmetro area ($60,370).

the Northwest Illinois nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Northwest Illinois nonmetro area is #290 of 517 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Illinois, Missoula and Toledo pay just above the Northwest Illinois nonmetro area and Davenport-Moline and Orlando-Kissimmee just below. All four are within $120 a year of the median in the Northwest Illinois nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many office managers, all three pay more.

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