Project Coordinator salary in the South Florida nonmetro area

Pay in the South Florida nonmetro area against Florida and the US

Project coordinators at the 90th percentile earn $143,730, 2.9 times the 10th percentile; the US ratio is 2.7. The middle half of project coordinators in the South Florida nonmetro area earns $64,560–$116,260. The mean ($94,210) is 9% 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 $51,700 wide, against $52,820 across Florida and $54,660 nationally: employers in the South Florida 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 $21,610 a year; from the median to the 75th it is $30,090, or about $38,826 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 South Florida nonmetro area, and the Florida statewide median of $98,070 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in the South Florida nonmetro area

At the $86,170 median, a local hire costs about $111,187 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $25,017 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 South Florida nonmetro area

Project coordinators have the highest median of the 15 roles we track in the South Florida nonmetro area; data entry specialists have the lowest, at $36,400.

Measured against the US median, project coordinators rank #14 of the 15 roles we track in the South Florida nonmetro area (-15.8%), between executive assistants (-15.0%) and marketing specialists (-19.5%). The typical role here is at -11.2%, so, measured against the US, project coordinators cost less in the South Florida nonmetro area than the area's general pay level would suggest. Project coordinators hold 5.7% of the jobs in these 15 roles in the South Florida nonmetro area, 6.6% across Florida and 6.8% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Florida

Across the 24 areas of Florida with data for this job, the median runs from $74,650 in Sebring to $103,870 in Palm Bay-Melbourne, a gap of $29,220 a year. Of the 17 areas in Florida with more project coordinators than the South Florida nonmetro area, 5 pay less, the largest of them Tallahassee, FL ($82,740), Deltona-Daytona Beach, FL ($79,890) and Port St. Lucie, FL ($84,810).

the South Florida nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the South Florida nonmetro area is #266 of 517 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Florida, Elkhart-Goshen and Baton Rouge pay just above the South Florida nonmetro area and Nashville-Murfreesboro and Longview just below. All four are within $480 a year of the median in the South Florida nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many project coordinators, two pay more.

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