Office Manager salary in the Northwest Oklahoma nonmetro area

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

Pay is more spread out here than nationally: the top tenth earns $95,490 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 Oklahoma nonmetro area earns $42,340–$75,660. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is $33,320 wide, wider than in Oklahoma as a whole ($29,480) and the US ($29,140), so what a office manager earns in the Northwest Oklahoma 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 $18,720 a year in pay and about $24,155 in employer cost. Going down to the 25th percentile saves $14,600 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 Oklahoma nonmetro area, and the Oklahoma statewide median of $60,870 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in the Northwest Oklahoma 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 $16,531 to the $56,940 median and brings it to $73,471 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 Oklahoma nonmetro area

Of the 15 roles we track in the Northwest Oklahoma nonmetro area, this one ranks #4 by median pay, between recruiters ($57,180) and marketing specialists ($56,230). Project Coordinator is the highest at $90,590.

Measured against the US median, office managers rank #6 of the 15 roles we track in the Northwest Oklahoma nonmetro area (-18.1%), between virtual receptionists (-15.1%) and medical administrative assistants (-18.2%). The typical role here is at -19.9%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Office managers hold 10.7% of the jobs in these 15 roles in the Northwest Oklahoma nonmetro area, 11.5% across Oklahoma and 9.1% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Oklahoma

Across the 8 areas of Oklahoma with data for this job, the median runs from $54,510 in Lawton to $63,310 in Oklahoma City, a gap of $8,800 a year. Of the 4 areas in Oklahoma with more office managers than the Northwest Oklahoma nonmetro area, 2 pay less: the Southeast Oklahoma nonmetro area ($54,950) and the Northeast Oklahoma nonmetro area ($55,610).

the Northwest Oklahoma nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Northwest Oklahoma nonmetro area is #273 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 Oklahoma, Pocatello and Houma-Bayou Cane pay just above the Northwest Oklahoma nonmetro area and Texarkana and Joplin just below. All four are within $140 a year of the median in the Northwest Oklahoma nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many office managers, two pay more.

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