Project Coordinator salary in Bloomington, IL

Pay in Bloomington against Illinois and the US

Pay is more spread out here than nationally: the top tenth earns $190,510 or more, 3.1 times the bottom tenth, against 2.7 times across the US. Two offers for the same title can sit far apart. The middle half of project coordinators in Bloomington earns $82,800–$152,700. The mean ($118,470) is 17% 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 $69,900 wide, wider than in Illinois as a whole ($51,360) and the US ($54,660), so what a project coordinator earns in Bloomington depends more on the employer.

What to budget for a project coordinator here

Pay climbs faster above the median than below it here: the 75th percentile is $51,590 over the median, the 25th only $18,310 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $66,568 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 Bloomington, and the Illinois statewide median of $103,470 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in Bloomington

At the $101,110 median, a local hire costs about $130,465 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $29,355 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 Bloomington

Project coordinators have the highest median of the 14 roles we track in Bloomington; virtual receptionists have the lowest, at $35,340.

Measured against the US median, project coordinators rank #4 of the 14 roles we track in Bloomington (-1.2%), between medical administrative assistants (+0.0%) and recruiters (-2.3%). The typical role here is at -7.8%, so, measured against the US, project coordinators cost more in Bloomington than the area's general pay level would suggest. Project coordinators hold 6.8% of the jobs in these 14 roles in Bloomington, 5.2% across Illinois and 7.9% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Illinois

Across the 12 areas of Illinois with data for this job, the median runs from $86,680 in the East Central Illinois nonmetro area to $123,730 in Peoria, a gap of $37,050 a year. Of the 3 areas in Illinois with more project coordinators than Bloomington, 1 pays less: Springfield, IL ($100,030).

Bloomington against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Bloomington is #239 of 517 US areas for this job. It is a mid-sized market, and its pay is in the top quarter of US areas. Outside Illinois, Des Moines-West Des Moines and Buffalo-Cheektowaga pay just above Bloomington and Kansas City and Fresno just below. All four are within $80 a year of the median in Bloomington. Of the three markets with about as many project coordinators, one pays more.

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