Office Manager salary in the Wasatch Front Fringe Utah nonmetro area

Pay in the Wasatch Front Fringe Utah nonmetro area against Utah and the US

Office managers at the 90th percentile earn $102,350, 2.3 times the 10th percentile; the US ratio is 2.3. The middle half of office managers in the Wasatch Front Fringe Utah nonmetro area earns $49,760–$78,870. The mean ($68,500) 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 $29,110 wide, against $30,490 across Utah and $29,140 nationally: employers in the Wasatch Front Fringe Utah nonmetro area pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for an office manager here

The step from the 25th percentile to the median is $13,100 a year; from the median to the 75th it is $16,010, or about $20,658 once benefits are added. 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 Wasatch Front Fringe Utah nonmetro area, and the Utah statewide median of $66,900 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in the Wasatch Front Fringe Utah nonmetro area

At the $62,860 median, a local hire costs about $81,110 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $18,250 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 Wasatch Front Fringe Utah nonmetro area

Of the 14 roles we track in the Wasatch Front Fringe Utah nonmetro area, this one ranks #5 by median pay, between paralegals ($63,580) and marketing specialists ($60,120). Project Coordinator is the highest at $83,540.

Measured against the US median, office managers rank #8 of the 14 roles we track in the Wasatch Front Fringe Utah nonmetro area (-9.6%), between bookkeepers (-9.5%) and customer support specialists (-10.9%). 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 the Wasatch Front Fringe Utah nonmetro area, 9.9% across Utah and 9.2% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Utah

Across the 7 areas of Utah with data for this job, the median runs from $61,220 in the High Desert Utah nonmetro area to $71,890 in Salt Lake City-Murray, a gap of $10,670 a year. Of the 6 areas in Utah with more office managers than the Wasatch Front Fringe Utah nonmetro area, 2 pay less: the High Desert Utah nonmetro area ($61,220) and St. George, UT ($62,500).

the Wasatch Front Fringe Utah nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Wasatch Front Fringe Utah nonmetro area is #362 of 517 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Utah, Winchester and Huntsville pay just above the Wasatch Front Fringe Utah nonmetro area and Cape Coral-Fort Myers and Savannah just below. All four are within $90 a year of the median in the Wasatch Front Fringe Utah nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many office managers, none pays as much.

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