Project Coordinator salary in Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA

Pay in Des Moines-West Des Moines against Iowa and the US

The middle half of project coordinators in Des Moines-West Des Moines earns $80,100–$146,820. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $150,290, only 2.3 times the bottom tenth, against 2.7 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. The mean ($110,440) 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 $66,720 wide, wider than in Iowa as a whole ($52,810) and the US ($54,660), so what a project coordinator earns in Des Moines-West Des Moines 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 $45,670 over the median, the 25th only $21,050 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $58,929 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 Des Moines-West Des Moines, and the Iowa statewide median of $96,540 falls between the 25th percentile and the median.

What a hire really costs in Des Moines-West Des Moines

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 $29,366 to the $101,150 median and brings it to $130,516 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 Des Moines-West Des Moines

Project coordinators have the highest median of the 17 roles we track in Des Moines-West Des Moines; virtual receptionists have the lowest, at $37,910.

Measured against the US median, project coordinators rank #9 of the 17 roles we track in Des Moines-West Des Moines (-1.1%), between virtual receptionists (-0.3%) and marketing specialists (-2.8%). The typical role here is at -1.1%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Project coordinators hold 5.8% of the jobs in these 17 roles in Des Moines-West Des Moines, 4.9% across Iowa and 6.7% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Iowa

Across the 12 areas of Iowa with data for this job, the median runs from $81,210 in the Northwest Iowa nonmetro area to $104,690 in Dubuque, a gap of $23,480 a year. No other area in Iowa has as many project coordinators, and 9 of the other 11 pay less.

Des Moines-West Des Moines against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Des Moines-West Des Moines is #63 of 517 US areas for this job. It is one of the larger markets for this job and one of the better-paying ones. Outside Iowa, Buffalo-Cheektowaga and Augusta-Richmond County pay just above Des Moines-West Des Moines and Bloomington and Kansas City just below. All four are within $130 a year of the median in Des Moines-West Des Moines. Of the three markets with about as many project coordinators, none pays as much.

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