Project Coordinator salary in the South Georgia nonmetro area

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

Pay is more spread out here than nationally: the top tenth earns $137,710 or more, 3.2 times the bottom tenth, against 2.7 times across the US. Two offers for the same title can sit far apart. The middle half of project coordinators in the South Georgia nonmetro area earns $59,630–$106,420. The mean ($88,130) is 11% 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 $46,790 wide, against $55,080 across Georgia and $54,660 nationally: employers in the South Georgia nonmetro area pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for a project coordinator here

An offer at the 75th percentile instead of the median adds $26,780 a year in pay and about $34,555 in employer cost. Going down to the 25th percentile saves $20,010 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 South Georgia nonmetro area, and the Georgia statewide median of $102,140 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in the South Georgia 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 $23,121 to the $79,640 median and brings it to $102,761 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 South Georgia nonmetro area

Project coordinators have the highest median of the 17 roles we track in the South Georgia nonmetro area; e-commerce order specialists have the lowest, at $29,390.

Measured against the US median, project coordinators rank #15 of the 17 roles we track in the South Georgia nonmetro area (-22.2%), between sales development representatives (-22.0%) and administrative assistants (-24.4%). The typical role here is at -19.3%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Project coordinators hold 2.3% of the jobs in these 17 roles in the South Georgia nonmetro area, 5.6% across Georgia and 6.7% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Georgia

Across the 18 areas of Georgia with data for this job, the median runs from $73,320 in Hinesville to $116,980 in Warner Robins, a gap of $43,660 a year. All 6 areas in Georgia with more project coordinators than the South Georgia nonmetro area also pay more, among them Atlanta-Sandy Springs, GA ($103,400) and Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC ($101,280).

the South Georgia nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the South Georgia nonmetro area is #322 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 Georgia, Clarksville and Shreveport-Bossier City pay just above the South Georgia nonmetro area and Huntington-Ashland and Winston-Salem just below. All four are within $250 a year of the median in the South Georgia nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many project coordinators, all three pay more.

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