Office Manager salary in Staunton-Stuarts Draft, VA

Pay in Staunton-Stuarts Draft against Virginia and the US

Office managers at the 90th percentile earn $96,120, 2.2 times the 10th percentile; the US ratio is 2.3. The middle half of office managers in Staunton-Stuarts Draft earns $50,750–$78,770. The mean ($67,260) 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 $28,020 wide, against $29,700 across Virginia and $29,140 nationally: employers in Staunton-Stuarts Draft 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 $16,920 over the median, the 25th only $11,100 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $21,832 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 Staunton-Stuarts Draft, and the Virginia statewide median of $67,170 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in Staunton-Stuarts Draft

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 $17,956 to the $61,850 median and brings it to $79,806 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 Staunton-Stuarts Draft

Of the 14 roles we track in Staunton-Stuarts Draft, this one ranks #5 by median pay, between recruiters ($65,540) and payroll specialists ($60,600). Project Coordinator is the highest at $89,020.

Measured against the US median, office managers rank #8 of the 14 roles we track in Staunton-Stuarts Draft (-11.0%), between customer support specialists (-7.9%) and marketing specialists (-11.6%). The typical role here is at -9.5%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Office managers hold 10.8% of the jobs in these 14 roles in Staunton-Stuarts Draft, 8.4% across Virginia and 9.2% 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. Of the 11 areas in Virginia with more office managers than Staunton-Stuarts Draft, 5 pay less, the largest of them Roanoke, VA ($61,800), the Southwest Virginia nonmetro area ($58,860) and the Southside Virginia nonmetro area ($60,110).

Staunton-Stuarts Draft against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Staunton-Stuarts Draft is #446 of 517 US areas for this job. The market is small, and its pay sits near the middle of the US range. Outside Virginia, Battle Creek and Saginaw pay just above Staunton-Stuarts Draft and Michigan City-La Porte and Dalton just below. All four are within $70 a year of the median in Staunton-Stuarts Draft. Of the three markets with about as many office managers, two pay more.

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