Office Manager salary in the Southern Vermont nonmetro area

Pay in the Southern Vermont nonmetro area against Vermont and the US

The middle half of office managers in the Southern Vermont nonmetro area earns $57,940–$73,970. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $89,770, only 1.9 times the bottom tenth, against 2.3 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is only $16,030 wide, against $19,320 across Vermont and $29,140 nationally: employers in the Southern Vermont 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 $8,840 a year in pay and about $11,406 in employer cost. Going down to the 25th percentile saves $7,190 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 Southern Vermont nonmetro area, and the Vermont statewide median of $68,790 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in the Southern Vermont 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 $18,909 to the $65,130 median and brings it to $84,039 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 Southern Vermont nonmetro area

Of the 17 roles we track in the Southern Vermont nonmetro area, this one ranks #8 by median pay, between paralegals ($65,390) and payroll specialists ($56,690). Project Coordinator is the highest at $81,640.

Measured against the US median, office managers rank #13 of the 17 roles we track in the Southern Vermont nonmetro area (-6.3%), between payroll specialists (-2.7%) and marketing specialists (-7.3%). The typical role here is at +1.1%, so, measured against the US, office managers cost less in the Southern Vermont nonmetro area than the area's general pay level would suggest. Office managers hold 7.4% of the jobs in the 16 of these roles with a job count in the Southern Vermont nonmetro area, 7.2% across Vermont and 9.1% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Vermont

Across the 3 areas of Vermont with data for this job, the median runs from $65,130 in the Southern Vermont nonmetro area to $69,720 in Burlington-South Burlington, a gap of $4,590 a year. All 2 areas in Vermont with more office managers than the Southern Vermont nonmetro area also pay more, among them the Northern Vermont nonmetro area ($69,110) and Burlington-South Burlington, VT ($69,720).

the Southern Vermont nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Southern Vermont nonmetro area is #419 of 517 US areas for this job. The market is small, and its pay sits near the middle of the US range. Outside Vermont, Charlotte-Concord and Wausau pay just above the Southern Vermont nonmetro area and Ogden and Ann Arbor just below. All four are within $250 a year of the median in the Southern Vermont nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many office managers, one pays more.

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