Recruiter salary in Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX

Pay in Beaumont-Port Arthur against Texas and the US

The middle half of recruiters in Beaumont-Port Arthur earns $51,160–$80,040. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $101,300, only 2.3 times the bottom tenth, against 2.7 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. The mean ($70,050) 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 $28,880 wide, against $37,890 across Texas and $40,770 nationally: employers in Beaumont-Port Arthur pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for a recruiter here

The step from the 25th percentile to the median is $11,740 a year; from the median to the 75th it is $17,140, or about $22,116 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 median and the 75th percentile in Beaumont-Port Arthur, and the Texas statewide median of $68,920 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in Beaumont-Port Arthur

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 $18,261 to the $62,900 median and brings it to $81,161 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 Beaumont-Port Arthur

Of the 17 roles we track in Beaumont-Port Arthur, this one ranks #4 by median pay, between executive assistants ($66,740) and office managers ($61,250). Project Coordinator is the highest at $100,470.

Measured against the US median, recruiters rank #13 of the 17 roles we track in Beaumont-Port Arthur (-17.2%), between medical administrative assistants (-17.1%) and sales development representatives (-17.6%). The typical role here is at -13.4%, so, measured against the US, recruiters cost less in Beaumont-Port Arthur than the area's general pay level would suggest. Recruiters hold 4.7% of the jobs in these 17 roles in Beaumont-Port Arthur, 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 10 areas in Texas with more recruiters than Beaumont-Port Arthur, 5 pay less, the largest of them El Paso, TX ($58,990), the North Region of Texas nonmetro area ($62,490) and McAllen-Edinburg, TX ($53,600).

Beaumont-Port Arthur against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Beaumont-Port Arthur is #177 of 521 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Texas, Lakeland-Winter Haven and Decatur pay just above Beaumont-Port Arthur and Brunswick-St. Simons and Beckley just below. All four are within $130 a year of the median in Beaumont-Port Arthur. Of the three markets with about as many recruiters, two pay more.

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