Office Manager salary in Rockford, IL

Pay in Rockford against Illinois and the US

Office managers at the 90th percentile earn $101,880, 2.4 times the 10th percentile; the US ratio is 2.3. The middle half of office managers in Rockford earns $55,250–$84,450. The mean ($72,220) 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 $29,200 wide, wider than in Illinois as a whole ($29,070) and the US ($29,140), so what a office manager earns in Rockford depends more on the employer.

What to budget for an office manager here

Pay climbs faster above the median than below it here: the 75th percentile is $18,710 over the median, the 25th only $10,490 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $24,142 a year in employer cost. 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 Rockford, and the Illinois statewide median of $69,010 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in Rockford

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 $19,086 to the $65,740 median and brings it to $84,826 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 Rockford

Of the 17 roles we track in Rockford, this one ranks #3 by median pay, between accountants ($75,260) and recruiters ($65,490). Project Coordinator is the highest at $94,690.

Measured against the US median, office managers rank #9 of the 17 roles we track in Rockford (-5.4%), between paralegals (-5.1%) and project coordinators (-7.5%). The typical role here is at -5.4%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Office managers hold 6.7% of the jobs in these 17 roles in Rockford, 6.9% across Illinois and 9.1% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

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 5 areas in Illinois with more office managers than Rockford, 3 pay less: the West Central Illinois nonmetro area ($60,370), the Northwest Illinois nonmetro area ($63,070) and the East Central Illinois nonmetro area ($62,400).

Rockford against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Rockford is #306 of 517 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Illinois, Santa Fe and Allentown-Bethlehem pay just above Rockford and Medford and Kalamazoo-Portage just below. All four are within $100 a year of the median in Rockford. Of the three markets with about as many office managers, two pay more.

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