Project Coordinator salary in Jackson, TN

Pay in Jackson against Tennessee and the US

The middle half of project coordinators in Jackson earns $67,610–$104,720. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $127,830, only 2.4 times the bottom tenth, against 2.7 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. The mean ($89,720) 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 $37,110 wide, against $42,130 across Tennessee and $54,660 nationally: employers in Jackson pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for a project coordinator here

Pay climbs faster above the median than below it here: the 75th percentile is $23,270 over the median, the 25th only $13,840 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $30,026 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 Jackson, and the Tennessee statewide median of $85,890 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in Jackson

At the $81,450 median, a local hire costs about $105,097 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $23,647 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 Jackson

Project coordinators have the highest median of the 17 roles we track in Jackson; virtual receptionists have the lowest, at $33,860.

Measured against the US median, project coordinators rank #12 of the 17 roles we track in Jackson (-20.4%), between payroll specialists (-17.9%) and paralegals (-22.1%). The typical role here is at -16.5%, so, measured against the US, project coordinators cost less in Jackson than the area's general pay level would suggest. Project coordinators hold 4.6% of the jobs in these 17 roles in Jackson, 5.7% across Tennessee and 6.7% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Tennessee

Across the 14 areas of Tennessee with data for this job, the median runs from $77,580 in the West Tennessee nonmetro area to $91,690 in Knoxville, a gap of $14,110 a year. Of the 9 areas in Tennessee with more project coordinators than Jackson, 3 pay less: Clarksville, TN-KY ($79,660), the West Tennessee nonmetro area ($77,580) and the North Central Tennessee nonmetro area ($78,470).

Jackson against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Jackson is #319 of 517 US areas for this job. It is a mid-sized market, and its pay is in the bottom quarter of US areas. Outside Tennessee, Sebastian-Vero Beach and Waterloo-Cedar Falls pay just above Jackson and Bowling Green and Muncie just below. All four are within $370 a year of the median in Jackson. Of the three markets with about as many project coordinators, two pay more.

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