Project Coordinator salary in the Eastern Ohio nonmetro area

Pay in the Eastern Ohio nonmetro area against Ohio and the US

Project coordinators at the 90th percentile earn $130,940, 2.5 times the 10th percentile; the US ratio is 2.7. The middle half of project coordinators in the Eastern Ohio nonmetro area earns $66,660–$106,050. The mean ($91,560) is 10% 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 $39,390 wide, against $52,150 across Ohio and $54,660 nationally: employers in the Eastern Ohio nonmetro area pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for a project coordinator here

The step from the 25th percentile to the median is $16,290 a year; from the median to the 75th it is $23,100, or about $29,806 once benefits are added. 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 Eastern Ohio nonmetro area, and the Ohio statewide median of $95,770 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in the Eastern Ohio 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 $24,082 to the $82,950 median and brings it to $107,032 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 Eastern Ohio nonmetro area

Project coordinators have the highest median of the 17 roles we track in the Eastern Ohio nonmetro area; virtual receptionists have the lowest, at $34,870.

Measured against the US median, project coordinators rank #13 of the 17 roles we track in the Eastern Ohio nonmetro area (-18.9%), between medical administrative assistants (-16.9%) and executive assistants (-21.5%). The typical role here is at -10.8%, so, measured against the US, project coordinators cost less in the Eastern Ohio nonmetro area than the area's general pay level would suggest. Project coordinators hold 3.6% of the jobs in these 17 roles in the Eastern Ohio nonmetro area, 6.7% across Ohio and 6.7% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Ohio

Across the 16 areas of Ohio with data for this job, the median runs from $77,160 in Youngstown-Warren to $98,660 in Columbus, a gap of $21,500 a year. Of the 11 areas in Ohio with more project coordinators than the Eastern Ohio nonmetro area, 4 pay less, the largest of them Toledo, OH ($81,940), Canton-Massillon, OH ($82,530) and Youngstown-Warren, OH ($77,160).

the Eastern Ohio nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Eastern Ohio nonmetro area is #300 of 517 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Ohio, Amarillo and Lewiston pay just above the Eastern Ohio nonmetro area and Tallahassee and Morristown just below. All four are within $310 a year of the median in the Eastern Ohio nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many project coordinators, all three pay more.

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