Office Manager salary in the Northwestern South Carolina nonmetro area

Pay in the Northwestern South Carolina nonmetro area against South Carolina and the US

Pay is more spread out here than nationally: the top tenth earns $104,000 or more, 2.6 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 Northwestern South Carolina nonmetro area earns $47,100–$79,060. The mean ($67,150) is 10% 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 $31,960 wide, wider than in South Carolina as a whole ($30,080) and the US ($29,140), so what a office manager earns in the Northwestern South Carolina nonmetro area depends more on the employer.

What to budget for an office manager here

The step from the 25th percentile to the median is $14,080 a year; from the median to the 75th it is $17,880, or about $23,071 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 the Northwestern South Carolina nonmetro area, and the South Carolina statewide median of $62,920 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in the Northwestern South Carolina nonmetro area

At the $61,180 median, a local hire costs about $78,942 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $17,762 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 the Northwestern South Carolina nonmetro area

Of the 16 roles we track in the Northwestern South Carolina nonmetro area, this one ranks #5 by median pay, between marketing specialists ($68,620) and sales development representatives ($57,870). Project Coordinator is the highest at $93,590.

Measured against the US median, office managers rank #6 of the 16 roles we track in the Northwestern South Carolina nonmetro area (-12.0%), between virtual receptionists (-11.9%) and administrative assistants (-12.1%). The typical role here is at -13.8%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Office managers hold 11.8% of the jobs in these 16 roles in the Northwestern South Carolina nonmetro area, 10.7% across South Carolina and 9.1% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in South Carolina

Across the 11 areas of South Carolina with data for this job, the median runs from $58,590 in Sumter to $65,910 in Charleston-North Charleston, a gap of $7,320 a year. Of the 7 areas in South Carolina with more office managers than the Northwestern South Carolina nonmetro area, 2 pay less: Myrtle Beach-Conway, SC ($59,370) and Hilton Head Island-Bluffton, SC ($59,090).

the Northwestern South Carolina nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Northwestern South Carolina nonmetro area is #278 of 517 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside South Carolina, Bowling Green and Beaumont-Port Arthur pay just above the Northwestern South Carolina nonmetro area and State College and Terre Haute just below. All four are within $90 a year of the median in the Northwestern South Carolina nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many office managers, two pay more.

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