Project Coordinator salary in Louisville, KY-IN

Pay in Louisville against Kentucky and the US

The middle half of project coordinators in Louisville earns $65,210–$104,160. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $129,630, only 2.3 times the bottom tenth, against 2.7 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. The mean ($90,520) 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 $38,950 wide, against $40,730 across Kentucky and $54,660 nationally: employers in Louisville pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for a project coordinator here

An offer at the 75th percentile instead of the median adds $21,500 a year in pay and about $27,742 in employer cost. Going down to the 25th percentile saves $17,450 in pay. 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 Louisville, and the Kentucky statewide median of $81,700 falls between the 25th percentile and the median.

What a hire really costs in Louisville

At the $82,660 median, a local hire costs about $106,658 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $23,998 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 Louisville

Project coordinators have the highest median of the 17 roles we track in Louisville; virtual receptionists have the lowest, at $34,520.

Measured against the US median, project coordinators rank #15 of the 17 roles we track in Louisville (-19.2%), between executive assistants (-17.2%) and marketing specialists (-19.7%). The typical role here is at -5.6%, so, measured against the US, project coordinators cost less in Louisville than the area's general pay level would suggest. Project coordinators hold 5.4% of the jobs in these 17 roles in Louisville, 5.1% across Kentucky and 6.7% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Kentucky

Across the 10 areas of Kentucky with data for this job, the median runs from $73,850 in the South Central Kentucky nonmetro area to $84,520 in Lexington-Fayette, a gap of $10,670 a year. No other area in Kentucky has as many project coordinators, and 8 of the other 9 pay less.

Louisville against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Louisville is #47 of 517 US areas for this job. It is one of the larger markets for this job, yet its pay sits in the bottom quarter of US areas. Outside Kentucky, Fayetteville and Morristown pay just above Louisville and Ocala and Canton-Massillon just below. All four are within $130 a year of the median in Louisville. Of the three markets with about as many project coordinators, all three pay more.

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