Project Coordinator salary in the Kansas nonmetro area

Pay in the Kansas nonmetro area against Kansas and the US

Pay is more spread out here than nationally: the top tenth earns $174,990 or more, 3.2 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 the Kansas nonmetro area earns $72,320–$123,010. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is only $50,690 wide, against $52,790 across Kansas and $54,660 nationally: employers in the Kansas 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 $24,690 a year; from the median to the 75th it is $26,000, or about $33,548 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 Kansas nonmetro area, and the Kansas statewide median of $100,010 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in the Kansas nonmetro area

At the $97,010 median, a local hire costs about $125,174 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $28,164 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 the Kansas nonmetro area

Project coordinators have the highest median of the 17 roles we track in the Kansas nonmetro area; virtual receptionists have the lowest, at $34,820.

Measured against the US median, project coordinators rank #2 of the 17 roles we track in the Kansas nonmetro area (-5.2%), between data entry specialists (-2.1%) and e-commerce order specialists (-7.5%). The typical role here is at -13.1%, so, measured against the US, project coordinators cost more in the Kansas nonmetro area than the area's general pay level would suggest. Project coordinators hold 2.3% of the jobs in these 17 roles in the Kansas nonmetro area, 3.8% across Kansas and 6.7% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Kansas

Across the 5 areas of Kansas with data for this job, the median runs from $89,170 in Wichita to $100,000 in Topeka, a gap of $10,830 a year. The one area in Kansas with more project coordinators, Wichita, KS ($89,170), pays less: a bigger pool at a lower median.

the Kansas nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Kansas nonmetro area is #158 of 517 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Kansas, Slidell-Mandeville and Lansing-East Lansing pay just above the Kansas nonmetro area and Ithaca and Iowa City just below. All four are within $190 a year of the median in the Kansas nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many project coordinators, one pays more.

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