Recruiter salary in Burlington, NC

Pay in Burlington against North Carolina and the US

The middle half of recruiters in Burlington earns $56,770–$94,270. The top tenth earns $123,640 or more, 2.6 times the bottom tenth, close to the US pattern of 2.7 times. The mean ($77,960) is 12% 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 $37,500 wide, against $40,060 across North Carolina and $40,770 nationally: employers in Burlington 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 $24,770 over the median, the 25th only $12,730 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $31,961 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 Burlington, and the North Carolina statewide median of $73,070 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in Burlington

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 $20,177 to the $69,500 median and brings it to $89,677 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 Burlington

Of the 15 roles we track in Burlington, this one ranks #4 by median pay, between marketing specialists ($77,860) and executive assistants ($61,620). Project Coordinator is the highest at $83,370.

Measured against the US median, recruiters rank #9 of the 15 roles we track in Burlington (-8.5%), between customer support specialists (-8.3%) and data entry specialists (-13.3%). The typical role here is at -8.3%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Recruiters hold 4.7% of the jobs in these 15 roles in Burlington, 6.0% across North Carolina and 5.8% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in North Carolina

Across the 18 areas of North Carolina with data for this job, the median runs from $61,660 in Rocky Mount to $81,100 in Durham-Chapel Hill, a gap of $19,440 a year. Of the 14 areas in North Carolina with more recruiters than Burlington, 9 pay less, the largest of them Greensboro-High Point, NC ($67,660), Winston-Salem, NC ($68,540) and the Central North Carolina nonmetro area ($61,780).

Burlington against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Burlington is #371 of 521 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside North Carolina, Hilton Head Island-Bluffton and Blacksburg-Christiansburg pay just above Burlington and Lynchburg and Reading just below. All four are within $380 a year of the median in Burlington. Of the three markets with about as many recruiters, one pays more.

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