Office Manager salary in the South Florida nonmetro area

Pay in the South Florida nonmetro area against Florida and the US

Office managers at the 90th percentile earn $99,960, 2.4 times the 10th percentile; the US ratio is 2.3. The middle half of office managers in the South Florida nonmetro area earns $50,800–$78,270. The mean ($67,590) is 9% 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 only $27,470 wide, against $28,590 across Florida and $29,140 nationally: employers in the South Florida nonmetro area pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for an office manager here

An offer at the 75th percentile instead of the median adds $16,040 a year in pay and about $20,697 in employer cost. Going down to the 25th percentile saves $11,430 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 South Florida nonmetro area, and the Florida statewide median of $64,360 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in the South Florida 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 $18,067 to the $62,230 median and brings it to $80,297 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 South Florida nonmetro area

Of the 15 roles we track in the South Florida nonmetro area, this one ranks #6 by median pay, between marketing specialists ($63,430) and sales development representatives ($62,120). Project Coordinator is the highest at $86,170.

Measured against the US median, office managers rank #7 of the 15 roles we track in the South Florida nonmetro area (-10.5%), between paralegals (-9.8%) and medical administrative assistants (-11.2%). The typical role here is at -11.2%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Office managers hold 11.2% of the jobs in these 15 roles in the South Florida nonmetro area, 8.2% across Florida and 9.1% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Florida

Across the 24 areas of Florida with data for this job, the median runs from $55,500 in Sebring to $71,140 in Naples-Marco Island, a gap of $15,640 a year. Of the 17 areas in Florida with more office managers than the South Florida nonmetro area, 5 pay less, the largest of them Deltona-Daytona Beach, FL ($60,620), Tallahassee, FL ($59,730) and Gainesville, FL ($61,910).

the South Florida nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the South Florida nonmetro area is #282 of 517 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Florida, Columbia and Wichita pay just above the South Florida nonmetro area and Great Falls and Kokomo just below. All four are within $220 a year of the median in the South Florida nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many office managers, two pay more.

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