Project Coordinator salary in Rapid City, SD

Pay in Rapid City against South Dakota and the US

The middle half of project coordinators in Rapid City earns $74,700–$104,640. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $132,830, only 2.1 times the bottom tenth, against 2.7 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. The mean ($87,520) is 17% 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 $29,940 wide, against $36,550 across South Dakota and $54,660 nationally: employers in Rapid City pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for a project coordinator here

The step from the 25th percentile to the median is $0 a year; from the median to the 75th it is $29,940, or about $38,632 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 Rapid City, and the South Dakota statewide median of $82,250 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in Rapid City

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 $21,687 to the $74,700 median and brings it to $96,387 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 Rapid City

Of the 14 roles we track in Rapid City, this one ranks #3 by median pay, between recruiters ($74,980) and marketing specialists ($61,700). Accountant is the highest at $79,270.

Measured against the US median, project coordinators rank #12 of the 14 roles we track in Rapid City (-27.0%), between marketing specialists (-21.7%) and executive assistants (-27.5%). The typical role here is at -12.5%, so, measured against the US, project coordinators cost less in Rapid City than the area's general pay level would suggest. Project coordinators hold 4.4% of the jobs in these 14 roles in Rapid City, 3.0% across South Dakota and 7.3% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in South Dakota

Across the 4 areas of South Dakota with data for this job, the median runs from $74,700 in Rapid City to $84,190 in Sioux Falls, a gap of $9,490 a year. All 2 areas in South Dakota with more project coordinators than Rapid City also pay more, among them Sioux Falls, SD-MN ($84,190) and the East South Dakota nonmetro area ($82,850).

Rapid City against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Rapid City is #321 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 South Dakota, Fort Smith and Beckley pay just above Rapid City and Sebring and Texarkana just below. Of the three markets with about as many project coordinators, all three pay more.

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