Project Coordinator salary in the Southern Ohio nonmetro area

Pay in the Southern Ohio nonmetro area against Ohio and the US

The middle half of project coordinators in the Southern Ohio nonmetro area earns $66,670–$107,820. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $137,650, only 2.4 times the bottom tenth, against 2.7 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. The mean ($92,250) 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 $41,150 wide, against $52,150 across Ohio and $54,660 nationally: employers in the Southern Ohio nonmetro area pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for a project coordinator here

Pay climbs faster above the median than below it here: the 75th percentile is $24,910 over the median, the 25th only $16,240 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $32,142 a year in employer cost. 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 Southern Ohio nonmetro area, and the Ohio statewide median of $95,770 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in the Southern Ohio 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 $24,071 to the $82,910 median and brings it to $106,981 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 Southern Ohio nonmetro area

Project coordinators have the highest median of the 17 roles we track in the Southern Ohio nonmetro area; virtual receptionists have the lowest, at $34,210.

Measured against the US median, project coordinators rank #14 of the 17 roles we track in the Southern Ohio nonmetro area (-19.0%), between accountants (-17.5%) and paralegals (-19.1%). The typical role here is at -12.8%, so, measured against the US, project coordinators cost less in the Southern Ohio 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 Southern Ohio nonmetro area, 6.7% across Ohio and 6.7% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Ohio

Across the 16 areas of Ohio with data for this job, the median runs from $77,160 in Youngstown-Warren to $98,660 in Columbus, a gap of $21,500 a year. Of the 10 areas in Ohio with more project coordinators than the Southern Ohio nonmetro area, 3 pay less: Toledo, OH ($81,940), Canton-Massillon, OH ($82,530) and Youngstown-Warren, OH ($77,160).

the Southern Ohio nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Southern Ohio nonmetro area is #204 of 517 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Ohio, Amarillo and Lewiston pay just above the Southern Ohio nonmetro area and Tallahassee and Morristown just below. All four are within $350 a year of the median in the Southern Ohio nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many project coordinators, two pay more.

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