Office Manager salary in Spartanburg, SC

Pay in Spartanburg against South Carolina and the US

The middle half of office managers in Spartanburg earns $50,350–$81,000. The top tenth earns $101,650 or more, 2.3 times the bottom tenth, close to the US pattern of 2.3 times. The mean ($69,160) is 11% 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 $30,650 wide, wider than in South Carolina as a whole ($30,080) and the US ($29,140), so what a office manager earns in Spartanburg 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 $18,620 over the median, the 25th only $12,030 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $24,026 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 Spartanburg, and the South Carolina statewide median of $62,920 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in Spartanburg

At the $62,380 median, a local hire costs about $80,490 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $18,110 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 Spartanburg

Of the 17 roles we track in Spartanburg, this one ranks #6 by median pay, between executive assistants ($62,640) and sales development representatives ($59,470). Project Coordinator is the highest at $96,810.

Measured against the US median, office managers rank #11 of the 17 roles we track in Spartanburg (-10.2%), between virtual receptionists (-8.1%) and recruiters (-11.2%). The typical role here is at -8.0%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Office managers hold 10.7% of the jobs in these 17 roles in Spartanburg, 10.7% across South Carolina and 9.1% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in South Carolina

Across the 11 areas of South Carolina with data for this job, the median runs from $58,590 in Sumter to $65,910 in Charleston-North Charleston, a gap of $7,320 a year. Of the 4 areas in South Carolina with more office managers than Spartanburg, 2 pay less: Columbia, SC ($62,230) and Myrtle Beach-Conway, SC ($59,370).

Spartanburg against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Spartanburg is #166 of 517 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside South Carolina, Tulsa and Scranton-Wilkes-Barre pay just above Spartanburg and Owensboro and Wildwood-The Villages just below. All four are within $50 a year of the median in Spartanburg. Of the three markets with about as many office managers, none pays as much.

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