Project Coordinator salary in the Arizona nonmetro area

Pay in the Arizona nonmetro area against Arizona and the US

Project coordinators at the 90th percentile earn $147,510, 2.9 times the 10th percentile; the US ratio is 2.7. The middle half of project coordinators in the Arizona nonmetro area earns $64,130–$107,050. The mean ($90,360) is 15% 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 $42,920 wide, against $53,880 across Arizona and $54,660 nationally: employers in the Arizona 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 $28,800 over the median, the 25th only $14,120 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $37,161 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 Arizona nonmetro area, and the Arizona statewide median of $99,050 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in the Arizona 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 $22,718 to the $78,250 median and brings it to $100,968 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 Arizona nonmetro area

Project coordinators have the highest median of the 16 roles we track in the Arizona nonmetro area; data entry specialists have the lowest, at $34,850.

Measured against the US median, project coordinators rank #13 of the 16 roles we track in the Arizona nonmetro area (-23.5%), between recruiters (-20.3%) and payroll specialists (-25.9%). The typical role here is at -15.2%, so, measured against the US, project coordinators cost less in the Arizona nonmetro area than the area's general pay level would suggest. Project coordinators hold 4.0% of the jobs in these 16 roles in the Arizona nonmetro area, 6.6% across Arizona and 6.8% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Arizona

Across the 8 areas of Arizona with data for this job, the median runs from $77,940 in Flagstaff to $100,780 in Phoenix-Mesa, a gap of $22,840 a year. Of the 3 areas in Arizona with more project coordinators than the Arizona nonmetro area, 1 pays less: Flagstaff, AZ ($77,940).

the Arizona nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Arizona nonmetro area is #345 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 Arizona, St. George and Waco pay just above the Arizona nonmetro area and Cape Girardeau and Jackson just below. All four are within $330 a year of the median in the Arizona nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many project coordinators, two pay more.

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