Recruiter salary in the Alaska nonmetro area

Pay in the Alaska nonmetro area against Alaska and the US

The middle half of recruiters in the Alaska nonmetro area earns $65,610–$92,710. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $110,730, only 2.0 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 $27,100 wide, against $30,480 across Alaska and $40,770 nationally: employers in the Alaska nonmetro area pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for a recruiter here

The step from the 25th percentile to the median is $13,290 a year; from the median to the 75th it is $13,810, or about $17,819 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 $75,940 falls between the 25th percentile and the median in the Alaska nonmetro area, and the Alaska statewide median of $76,990 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in the Alaska nonmetro area

At the $78,900 median, a local hire costs about $101,806 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $22,906 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 Alaska nonmetro area

Of the 16 roles we track in the Alaska nonmetro area, this one ranks #3 by median pay, between accountants ($85,850) and paralegals ($73,380). Project Coordinator is the highest at $98,020.

Measured against the US median, recruiters rank #8 of the 16 roles we track in the Alaska nonmetro area (+3.9%), between customer support specialists (+6.4%) and data entry specialists (+3.7%). The typical role here is at +3.8%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Recruiters hold 4.3% of the jobs in these 16 roles in the Alaska nonmetro area, 4.5% across Alaska and 5.8% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Alaska

Across the 3 areas of Alaska with data for this job, the median runs from $75,850 in Anchorage to $78,900 in the Alaska nonmetro area, a gap of $3,050 a year. The one area in Alaska with more recruiters, Anchorage, AK ($75,850), pays less: a bigger pool at a lower median.

the Alaska nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Alaska nonmetro area is #281 of 521 US areas for this job. It is a mid-sized market, and its pay is in the top quarter of US areas. Outside Alaska, Burlington-South Burlington and Colorado Springs pay just above the Alaska nonmetro area and Elizabethtown and Springfield just below. All four are within $100 a year of the median in the Alaska nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many recruiters, one pays more.

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