Project Coordinator salary in the Alaska nonmetro area

Pay in the Alaska nonmetro area against Alaska and the US

Project coordinators at the 90th percentile earn $165,480, 3.0 times the 10th percentile; the US ratio is 2.7. The middle half of project coordinators in the Alaska nonmetro area earns $78,610–$128,250. The mean ($106,660) 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 $49,640 wide, against $51,780 across Alaska and $54,660 nationally: employers in the Alaska nonmetro area pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for a project coordinator here

Pay climbs faster above the median than below it here: the 75th percentile is $30,230 over the median, the 25th only $19,410 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $39,006 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 $102,320 falls between the median and the 75th percentile in the Alaska nonmetro area, and the Alaska statewide median of $99,580 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in the Alaska 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 $28,457 to the $98,020 median and brings it to $126,477 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 Alaska nonmetro area

Project coordinators have the highest median of the 16 roles we track in the Alaska nonmetro area; data entry specialists have the lowest, at $42,860.

Measured against the US median, project coordinators rank #13 of the 16 roles we track in the Alaska nonmetro area (-4.2%), between office managers (-0.9%) and sales development representatives (-8.1%). The typical role here is at +3.8%, so, measured against the US, project coordinators cost less in the Alaska nonmetro area than the area's general pay level would suggest. Project coordinators hold 4.5% of the jobs in these 16 roles in the Alaska nonmetro area, 6.1% across Alaska and 6.8% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Alaska

Across the 3 areas of Alaska with data for this job, the median runs from $98,020 in the Alaska nonmetro area to $103,530 in Fairbanks-College, a gap of $5,510 a year. The one area in Alaska with more project coordinators, Anchorage, AK ($99,580), also pays more.

the Alaska nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Alaska nonmetro area is #243 of 517 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Alaska, Reading and Dayton-Kettering pay just above the Alaska nonmetro area and Salt Lake City-Murray and Greeley just below. All four are within $110 a year of the median in the Alaska nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many project coordinators, one pays more.

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