Project Coordinator salary in the Northern West Virginia nonmetro area

Pay in the Northern West Virginia nonmetro area against West Virginia and the US

Project coordinators at the 90th percentile earn $156,000, 2.8 times the 10th percentile; the US ratio is 2.7. The middle half of project coordinators in the Northern West Virginia nonmetro area earns $70,410–$128,890. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is $58,480 wide, between the figure for West Virginia ($59,680) and the US figure ($54,660).

What to budget for a project coordinator here

An offer at the 75th percentile instead of the median adds $30,950 a year in pay and about $39,935 in employer cost. Going down to the 25th percentile saves $27,530 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 the Northern West Virginia nonmetro area, and the West Virginia statewide median of $91,780 falls between the 25th percentile and the median.

What a hire really costs in the Northern West Virginia 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 $28,434 to the $97,940 median and brings it to $126,374 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 Northern West Virginia nonmetro area

Project coordinators have the highest median of the 17 roles we track in the Northern West Virginia nonmetro area; virtual receptionists have the lowest, at $30,790.

Measured against the US median, project coordinators rank #3 of the 17 roles we track in the Northern West Virginia nonmetro area (-4.3%), between e-commerce order specialists (-1.8%) and customer support specialists (-12.2%). The typical role here is at -18.0%, so, measured against the US, project coordinators cost more in the Northern West Virginia nonmetro area than the area's general pay level would suggest. Project coordinators hold 4.8% of the jobs in these 17 roles in the Northern West Virginia nonmetro area, 4.3% across West Virginia and 6.7% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in West Virginia

Across the 9 areas of West Virginia with data for this job, the median runs from $74,730 in the Southern West Virginia nonmetro area to $98,470 in Parkersburg-Vienna, a gap of $23,740 a year. The one area in West Virginia with more project coordinators, Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY ($79,590), pays less: a bigger pool at a lower median.

the Northern West Virginia nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Northern West Virginia nonmetro area is #218 of 517 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside West Virginia, Greeley and Salt Lake City-Murray pay just above the Northern West Virginia nonmetro area and Minneapolis-St. Paul and Harrisburg-Carlisle just below. All four are within $90 a year of the median in the Northern West Virginia nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many project coordinators, none pays as much.

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