Office Manager salary in the Southern West Virginia nonmetro area

Pay in the Southern West Virginia nonmetro area against West Virginia and the US

The middle half of office managers in the Southern West Virginia nonmetro area earns $40,540–$57,670. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $67,060, only 1.8 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 $17,130 wide, against $19,240 across West Virginia and $29,140 nationally: employers in the Southern West Virginia nonmetro area pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for an office manager here

Pay climbs faster above the median than below it here: the 75th percentile is $10,410 over the median, the 25th only $6,720 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $13,432 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 above the 90th percentile in the Southern West Virginia nonmetro area, and the West Virginia statewide median of $53,660 falls between the median and the 75th percentile. An offer at the national rate would beat what nine in ten local office managers earn.

What a hire really costs in the Southern West Virginia nonmetro area

At the $47,260 median, a local hire costs about $60,981 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $13,721 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 Southern West Virginia nonmetro area

Of the 16 roles we track in the Southern West Virginia nonmetro area, this one ranks #5 by median pay, between recruiters ($61,580) and sales development representatives ($45,990). Project Coordinator is the highest at $74,730.

Measured against the US median, office managers rank #12 of the 16 roles we track in the Southern West Virginia nonmetro area (-32.0%), between project coordinators (-27.0%) and sales development representatives (-34.3%). The typical role here is at -23.4%, so, measured against the US, office managers cost less in the Southern West Virginia nonmetro area than the area's general pay level would suggest. Office managers hold 14.4% of the jobs in these 16 roles in the Southern West Virginia nonmetro area, 11.7% across West Virginia and 9.1% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in West Virginia

Across the 9 areas of West Virginia with data for this job, the median runs from $46,850 in Beckley to $59,910 in Weirton-Steubenville, a gap of $13,060 a year. All 3 areas in West Virginia with more office managers than the Southern West Virginia nonmetro area also pay more, among them Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY ($55,320) and the Northern West Virginia nonmetro area ($50,850).

the Southern West Virginia nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Southern West Virginia nonmetro area is #312 of 517 US areas for this job. It is a mid-sized market, and its pay is in the bottom quarter of US areas. No metro area outside West Virginia pays office managers less than the Southern West Virginia nonmetro area; the table shows the next lowest outside West Virginia. Of the three markets with about as many office managers, all three pay more.

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