Project Coordinator salary in Hickory-Lenoir, NC

Pay in Hickory-Lenoir against North Carolina and the US

Pay is more spread out here than nationally: the top tenth earns $159,810 or more, 3.0 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 Hickory-Lenoir earns $64,050–$123,580. The mean ($98,430) 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 $59,530 wide, wider than in North Carolina as a whole ($52,720) and the US ($54,660), so what a project coordinator earns in Hickory-Lenoir 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 $38,090 over the median, the 25th only $21,440 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $49,148 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 Hickory-Lenoir, and the North Carolina statewide median of $100,820 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in Hickory-Lenoir

At the $85,490 median, a local hire costs about $110,310 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $24,820 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 Hickory-Lenoir

Project coordinators have the highest median of the 17 roles we track in Hickory-Lenoir; virtual receptionists have the lowest, at $33,870.

Measured against the US median, project coordinators rank #15 of the 17 roles we track in Hickory-Lenoir (-16.4%), between medical administrative assistants (-16.4%) and paralegals (-22.8%). The typical role here is at -12.8%, so, measured against the US, project coordinators cost less in Hickory-Lenoir than the area's general pay level would suggest. Project coordinators hold 3.9% of the jobs in these 17 roles in Hickory-Lenoir, 6.9% across North Carolina and 6.7% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in North Carolina

Across the 18 areas of North Carolina with data for this job, the median runs from $79,240 in Jacksonville to $105,200 in Charlotte-Concord, a gap of $25,960 a year. Of the 10 areas in North Carolina with more project coordinators than Hickory-Lenoir, 1 pays less: Winston-Salem, NC ($79,560).

Hickory-Lenoir against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Hickory-Lenoir is #220 of 517 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside North Carolina, Billings and Longview pay just above Hickory-Lenoir and Corvallis and Bangor just below. All four are within $380 a year of the median in Hickory-Lenoir. Of the three markets with about as many project coordinators, all three pay more.

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