Recruiter salary in Bozeman, MT

Pay in Bozeman against Montana and the US

The middle half of recruiters in Bozeman earns $60,560–$81,010. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $108,830, only 2.2 times the bottom tenth, against 2.7 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. The mean ($73,980) is 15% 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 $20,450 wide, against $27,890 across Montana and $40,770 nationally: employers in Bozeman 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 $16,930 over the median, the 25th only $3,520 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $21,845 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 Bozeman, and the Montana statewide median of $63,790 falls between the 25th percentile and the median.

What a hire really costs in Bozeman

At the $64,080 median, a local hire costs about $82,684 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $18,604 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 Bozeman

Of the 13 roles we track in Bozeman, this one ranks #5 by median pay, between marketing specialists ($65,990) and executive assistants ($62,900). Project Coordinator is the highest at $99,090.

Measured against the US median, recruiters rank #11 of the 13 roles we track in Bozeman (-15.6%), between sales development representatives (-11.7%) and marketing specialists (-16.2%). The typical role here is at -3.2%, so, measured against the US, recruiters cost less in Bozeman than the area's general pay level would suggest. Recruiters hold 5.9% of the jobs in these 13 roles in Bozeman, 6.4% across Montana and 7.0% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Montana

Across the 8 areas of Montana with data for this job, the median runs from $61,820 in the East-Central Montana nonmetro area to $78,020 in Helena, a gap of $16,200 a year. Of the 2 areas in Montana with more recruiters than Bozeman, 1 pays less: the West Montana nonmetro area ($62,250).

Bozeman against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Bozeman is #343 of 521 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Montana, Lawrence and Lake Charles pay just above Bozeman and Kenosha and Tucson just below. All four are within $130 a year of the median in Bozeman. Of the three markets with about as many recruiters, two pay more.

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