Recruiter salary in Blacksburg-Christiansburg, VA

Pay in Blacksburg-Christiansburg against Virginia and the US

The middle half of recruiters in Blacksburg-Christiansburg earns $54,720–$85,770. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $106,550, 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 $31,050 wide, against $46,900 across Virginia and $40,770 nationally: employers in Blacksburg-Christiansburg pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for a recruiter here

The step from the 25th percentile to the median is $15,160 a year; from the median to the 75th it is $15,890, or about $20,503 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 Blacksburg-Christiansburg, and the Virginia statewide median of $82,090 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in Blacksburg-Christiansburg

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 $20,288 to the $69,880 median and brings it to $90,168 a year. Recruiting, equipment and office space come on top. Benefit levels vary by employer, so treat this as an estimate.

We place executive assistants, customer support and e-commerce staff today; for recruiters we answer within one business day whether we can help. Enter the monthly pay you have in mind to compare it with a local hire. The fee field shows our standard fee³; Deel's contractor plan is the default payroll tool⁴.

Other roles in Blacksburg-Christiansburg

Of the 16 roles we track in Blacksburg-Christiansburg, this one ranks #3 by median pay, between accountants ($74,800) and executive assistants ($66,690). Project Coordinator is the highest at $85,070.

Measured against the US median, recruiters rank #5 of the 16 roles we track in Blacksburg-Christiansburg (-8.0%), between paralegals (-7.3%) and virtual receptionists (-8.1%). The typical role here is at -13.1%, so, measured against the US, recruiters cost more in Blacksburg-Christiansburg than the area's general pay level would suggest. Recruiters hold 7.4% of the jobs in the 15 of these roles with a job count in Blacksburg-Christiansburg, 7.3% across Virginia and 6.4% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Virginia

Across the 13 areas of Virginia with data for this job, the median runs from $62,310 in Harrisonburg to $82,430 in Charlottesville, a gap of $20,120 a year. Of the 8 areas in Virginia with more recruiters than Blacksburg-Christiansburg, 3 pay less: Roanoke, VA ($67,450), the Southwest Virginia nonmetro area ($63,800) and Lynchburg, VA ($69,490).

Blacksburg-Christiansburg against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Blacksburg-Christiansburg is #319 of 521 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Virginia, Akron and Las Vegas-Henderson pay just above Blacksburg-Christiansburg and Hilton Head Island-Bluffton and Burlington just below. All four are within $380 a year of the median in Blacksburg-Christiansburg. Of the three markets with about as many recruiters, none pays as much.

Questions

Sources

How these pages are built: methodology and data sources. Last updated 2026-11-12.