Office Manager salary in the Southwest Virginia nonmetro area

Pay in the Southwest Virginia nonmetro area against Virginia and the US

The middle half of office managers in the Southwest Virginia nonmetro area earns $48,710–$72,750. The top tenth earns $86,230 or more, 2.1 times the bottom tenth, close to the US pattern of 2.3 times. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is only $24,040 wide, against $29,700 across Virginia and $29,140 nationally: employers in the Southwest Virginia 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 $13,890 a year in pay and about $17,923 in employer cost. Going down to the 25th percentile saves $10,150 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 Southwest Virginia nonmetro area, and the Virginia statewide median of $67,170 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in the Southwest Virginia 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 $17,088 to the $58,860 median and brings it to $75,948 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 Southwest Virginia nonmetro area

Of the 17 roles we track in the Southwest Virginia nonmetro area, this one ranks #6 by median pay, between marketing specialists ($61,550) and payroll specialists ($54,820). Project Coordinator is the highest at $87,870.

Measured against the US median, office managers rank #10 of the 17 roles we track in the Southwest Virginia nonmetro area (-15.3%), between e-commerce order specialists (-14.8%) and recruiters (-16.0%). The typical role here is at -14.8%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Office managers hold 12.1% of the jobs in these 17 roles in the Southwest Virginia nonmetro area, 8.2% across 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 Virginia

Across the 13 areas of Virginia with data for this job, the median runs from $58,860 in the Southwest Virginia nonmetro area to $68,800 in Harrisonburg, a gap of $9,940 a year. All 3 areas in Virginia with more office managers than the Southwest Virginia nonmetro area also pay more, among them Virginia Beach-Chesapeake, VA-NC ($63,970) and Richmond, VA ($64,690).

the Southwest Virginia nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Southwest Virginia nonmetro area is #220 of 517 US areas for this job. It is a mid-sized market, and its pay is in the bottom quarter of US areas. Outside Virginia, Youngstown-Warren and Killeen-Temple pay just above the Southwest Virginia nonmetro area and Greenville and Little Rock-North Little Rock just below. All four are within $140 a year of the median in the Southwest Virginia nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many office managers, one pays more.

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