Project Coordinator salary in the Western Wisconsin nonmetro area

Pay in the Western Wisconsin nonmetro area against Wisconsin and the US

The middle half of project coordinators in the Western Wisconsin nonmetro area earns $65,350–$107,550. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $127,440, only 2.3 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 $42,200 wide, against $47,130 across Wisconsin and $54,660 nationally: employers in the Western Wisconsin 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 $23,130 a year in pay and about $29,845 in employer cost. Going down to the 25th percentile saves $19,070 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 Western Wisconsin nonmetro area, and the Wisconsin statewide median of $97,580 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in the Western Wisconsin 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 $24,509 to the $84,420 median and brings it to $108,929 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 Western Wisconsin nonmetro area

Project coordinators have the highest median of the 17 roles we track in the Western Wisconsin nonmetro area; virtual receptionists have the lowest, at $39,530.

Measured against the US median, project coordinators rank #16 of the 17 roles we track in the Western Wisconsin nonmetro area (-17.5%), between sales development representatives (-16.9%) and marketing specialists (-22.8%). The typical role here is at -3.7%, so, measured against the US, project coordinators cost less in the Western Wisconsin nonmetro area than the area's general pay level would suggest. Project coordinators hold 4.4% of the jobs in these 17 roles in the Western Wisconsin nonmetro area, 7.7% across Wisconsin and 6.7% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Wisconsin

Across the 17 areas of Wisconsin with data for this job, the median runs from $84,210 in Fond du Lac to $100,350 in Milwaukee-Waukesha, a gap of $16,140 a year. All 12 areas in Wisconsin with more project coordinators than the Western Wisconsin nonmetro area also pay more, among them Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI ($100,350) and Madison, WI ($98,990).

the Western Wisconsin nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Western Wisconsin nonmetro area is #292 of 517 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Wisconsin, Lexington-Fayette and Daphne-Fairhope pay just above the Western Wisconsin nonmetro area and Missoula and Gulfport-Biloxi just below. All four are within $220 a year of the median in the Western Wisconsin nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many project coordinators, all three pay more.

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