Recruiter salary in the Central New Hampshire nonmetro area

Pay in the Central New Hampshire nonmetro area against New Hampshire and the US

The middle half of recruiters in the Central New Hampshire nonmetro area earns $55,360–$85,190. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $110,020, only 2.4 times the bottom tenth, against 2.7 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. The mean ($73,280) 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 $29,830 wide, against $36,560 across New Hampshire and $40,770 nationally: employers in the Central New Hampshire nonmetro area 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 $18,490 over the median, the 25th only $11,340 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $23,858 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 the Central New Hampshire nonmetro area, and the New Hampshire statewide median of $70,840 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in the Central New Hampshire nonmetro area

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 $19,365 to the $66,700 median and brings it to $86,065 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 the Central New Hampshire nonmetro area

Of the 17 roles we track in the Central New Hampshire nonmetro area, this one ranks #6 by median pay, between office managers ($66,930) and paralegals ($61,960). Project Coordinator is the highest at $81,560.

Measured against the US median, recruiters rank #15 of the 17 roles we track in the Central New Hampshire nonmetro area (-12.2%), between executive assistants (-11.5%) and project coordinators (-20.3%). The typical role here is at -1.7%, so, measured against the US, recruiters cost less in the Central New Hampshire nonmetro area than the area's general pay level would suggest. Recruiters hold 5.0% of the jobs in these 17 roles in the Central New Hampshire nonmetro area, 5.7% across New Hampshire and 5.8% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in New Hampshire

Across the 4 areas of New Hampshire with data for this job, the median runs from $61,200 in the Southwestern New Hampshire nonmetro area to $74,760 in Manchester-Nashua, a gap of $13,560 a year. The one area in New Hampshire with more recruiters, Manchester-Nashua, NH ($74,760), also pays more.

the Central New Hampshire nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Central New Hampshire nonmetro area is #251 of 521 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside New Hampshire, Wausau and Bloomington pay just above the Central New Hampshire nonmetro area and Battle Creek and Goldsboro just below. All four are within $50 a year of the median in the Central New Hampshire nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many recruiters, one pays more.

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