Project Coordinator salary in Dalton, GA

Pay in Dalton against Georgia and the US

Project coordinators at the 90th percentile earn $150,990, 2.8 times the 10th percentile; the US ratio is 2.7. The middle half of project coordinators in Dalton earns $69,990–$138,140. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is $68,150 wide, wider than in Georgia as a whole ($55,080) and the US ($54,660), so what a project coordinator earns in Dalton depends more on the employer.

What to budget for a project coordinator here

An offer at the 75th percentile instead of the median adds $39,550 a year in pay and about $51,032 in employer cost. Going down to the 25th percentile saves $28,600 in pay. 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 Dalton, and the Georgia statewide median of $102,140 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in Dalton

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 $28,623 to the $98,590 median and brings it to $127,213 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 Dalton

Project coordinators have the highest median of the 17 roles we track in Dalton; e-commerce order specialists have the lowest, at $31,630.

Measured against the US median, project coordinators rank #2 of the 17 roles we track in Dalton (-3.6%), between marketing specialists (+0.4%) and data entry specialists (-5.4%). The typical role here is at -12.8%, so, measured against the US, project coordinators cost more in Dalton than the area's general pay level would suggest. Project coordinators hold 5.3% of the jobs in these 17 roles in Dalton, 5.6% across Georgia and 6.7% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Georgia

Across the 18 areas of Georgia with data for this job, the median runs from $73,320 in Hinesville to $116,980 in Warner Robins, a gap of $43,660 a year. Of the 8 areas in Georgia with more project coordinators than Dalton, 4 pay less, the largest of them Columbus, GA-AL ($98,470), Gainesville, GA ($83,970) and the South Georgia nonmetro area ($79,640).

Dalton against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Dalton is #336 of 517 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Georgia, Columbus and Pensacola-Ferry Pass pay just above Dalton and Odessa and Boise City just below. All four are within $80 a year of the median in Dalton. Of the three markets with about as many project coordinators, none pays as much.

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