Project Coordinator salary in the Southwest Colorado nonmetro area

Pay in the Southwest Colorado nonmetro area against Colorado and the US

The middle half of project coordinators in the Southwest Colorado nonmetro area earns $74,380–$121,240. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $139,660, only 2.2 times the bottom tenth, against 2.7 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is only $46,860 wide, against $51,980 across Colorado and $54,660 nationally: employers in the Southwest Colorado 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 $25,160 a year in pay and about $32,465 in employer cost. Going down to the 25th percentile saves $21,700 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 Southwest Colorado nonmetro area, and the Colorado statewide median of $110,050 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in the Southwest Colorado 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 $27,894 to the $96,080 median and brings it to $123,974 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 Southwest Colorado nonmetro area

Project coordinators have the highest median of the 17 roles we track in the Southwest Colorado nonmetro area; data entry specialists have the lowest, at $35,990.

Measured against the US median, project coordinators rank #12 of the 17 roles we track in the Southwest Colorado nonmetro area (-6.1%), between accountants (-4.8%) and recruiters (-11.4%). The typical role here is at -2.7%, so, measured against the US, project coordinators cost less in the Southwest Colorado nonmetro area than the area's general pay level would suggest. Project coordinators hold 5.9% of the jobs in the 15 of these roles with a job count in the Southwest Colorado nonmetro area, 10.4% across Colorado and 7.0% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Colorado

Across the 10 areas of Colorado with data for this job, the median runs from $94,690 in Grand Junction to $122,040 in Boulder, a gap of $27,350 a year. All 6 areas in Colorado with more project coordinators than the Southwest Colorado nonmetro area also pay more, among them Denver-Aurora, CO ($116,740) and Colorado Springs, CO ($111,740).

the Southwest Colorado nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Southwest Colorado nonmetro area is #196 of 517 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Colorado, Farmington and Elmira pay just above the Southwest Colorado nonmetro area and Eau Claire and Lancaster just below. All four are within $260 a year of the median in the Southwest Colorado nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many project coordinators, one pays more.

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