Project Coordinator salary in San Jose-Sunnyvale, CA

Pay in San Jose-Sunnyvale against California and the US

Project coordinators at the 90th percentile earn $212,340, 2.6 times the 10th percentile; the US ratio is 2.7. The middle half of project coordinators in San Jose-Sunnyvale earns $102,160–$172,820. The mean ($146,170) is 8% 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 $70,660 wide, wider than in California as a whole ($70,230) and the US ($54,660), so what a project coordinator earns in San Jose-Sunnyvale depends more on the employer.

What to budget for a project coordinator here

The step from the 25th percentile to the median is $32,960 a year; from the median to the 75th it is $37,700, or about $48,645 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 25th percentile and the median in San Jose-Sunnyvale, and the California statewide median of $120,910 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in San Jose-Sunnyvale

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 $39,228 to the $135,120 median and brings it to $174,348 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 San Jose-Sunnyvale

Of the 17 roles we track in San Jose-Sunnyvale, this one ranks #2 by median pay, after marketing specialists ($141,960); accountants come next at $121,700.

Measured against the US median, project coordinators rank #13 of the 17 roles we track in San Jose-Sunnyvale (+32.1%), between administrative assistants (+32.4%) and data entry specialists (+31.9%). The typical role here is at +35.1%, so, measured against the US, project coordinators cost less in San Jose-Sunnyvale than the area's general pay level would suggest. Project coordinators hold 9.4% of the jobs in these 17 roles in San Jose-Sunnyvale, 6.9% across California and 6.7% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in California

Across the 28 areas of California with data for this job, the median runs from $86,540 in the North Valley-Northern Mountains Region of California nonmetro area to $135,120 in San Jose-Sunnyvale, a gap of $48,580 a year. All 3 areas in California with more project coordinators than San Jose-Sunnyvale pay less, among them Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA ($108,310) and San Francisco-Oakland, CA ($135,040).

San Jose-Sunnyvale against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, San Jose-Sunnyvale is #25 of 517 US areas for this job. It is one of the larger markets for this job and one of the better-paying ones. Outside California, Dothan pay just above San Jose-Sunnyvale and Seattle-Tacoma and Washington-Arlington just below. Of the three markets with about as many project coordinators, none pays as much.

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