Recruiter salary in Amarillo, TX

Pay in Amarillo against Texas and the US

Recruiters at the 90th percentile earn $100,680, 2.5 times the 10th percentile; the US ratio is 2.7. The middle half of recruiters in Amarillo earns $51,320–$79,720. The mean ($68,170) is 10% 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 $28,400 wide, against $37,890 across Texas and $40,770 nationally: employers in Amarillo pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for a recruiter here

Pay climbs faster above the median than below it here: the 75th percentile is $17,540 over the median, the 25th only $10,860 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $22,632 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 $75,940 falls between the median and the 75th percentile in Amarillo, and the Texas statewide median of $68,920 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in Amarillo

At the $62,180 median, a local hire costs about $80,232 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $18,052 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 Amarillo

Of the 17 roles we track in Amarillo, this one ranks #4 by median pay, between executive assistants ($64,350) and marketing specialists ($61,380). Project Coordinator is the highest at $83,210.

Measured against the US median, recruiters rank #13 of the 17 roles we track in Amarillo (-18.1%), between executive assistants (-16.0%) and project coordinators (-18.7%). The typical role here is at -14.2%, so, measured against the US, recruiters cost less in Amarillo than the area's general pay level would suggest. Recruiters hold 4.3% of the jobs in these 17 roles in Amarillo, 5.4% across Texas and 5.8% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Texas

Across the 32 areas of Texas with data for this job, the median runs from $46,630 in Eagle Pass to $78,650 in Midland, a gap of $32,020 a year. Of the 19 areas in Texas with more recruiters than Amarillo, 6 pay less, the largest of them El Paso, TX ($58,990), McAllen-Edinburg, TX ($53,600) and the Hill Country Region of Texas nonmetro area ($57,450).

Amarillo against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Amarillo is #246 of 521 US areas for this job. It is a mid-sized market, and its pay is in the bottom quarter of US areas. Outside Texas, Alexandria and Harrisonburg pay just above Amarillo and Grand Island and Sandusky just below. All four are within $130 a year of the median in Amarillo. Of the three markets with about as many recruiters, all three pay more.

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