Recruiter salary in Corpus Christi, TX

Pay in Corpus Christi against Texas and the US

Recruiters at the 90th percentile earn $101,300, 2.6 times the 10th percentile; the US ratio is 2.7. The middle half of recruiters in Corpus Christi earns $47,450–$77,000. The mean ($66,720) 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 $29,550 wide, against $37,890 across Texas and $40,770 nationally: employers in Corpus Christi pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for a recruiter here

The step from the 25th percentile to the median is $12,580 a year; from the median to the 75th it is $16,970, or about $21,897 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 Corpus Christi, and the Texas statewide median of $68,920 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in Corpus Christi

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 $17,428 to the $60,030 median and brings it to $77,458 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 Corpus Christi

Of the 17 roles we track in Corpus Christi, this one ranks #4 by median pay, between executive assistants ($67,360) and office managers ($59,770). Project Coordinator is the highest at $90,320.

Measured against the US median, recruiters rank #16 of the 17 roles we track in Corpus Christi (-21.0%), between payroll specialists (-20.0%) and marketing specialists (-28.9%). The typical role here is at -16.3%, so, measured against the US, recruiters cost less in Corpus Christi than the area's general pay level would suggest. Recruiters hold 4.1% of the jobs in these 17 roles in Corpus Christi, 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 8 areas in Texas with more recruiters than Corpus Christi, 3 pay less: El Paso, TX ($58,990), McAllen-Edinburg, TX ($53,600) and the Hill Country Region of Texas nonmetro area ($57,450).

Corpus Christi against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Corpus Christi is #163 of 521 US areas for this job. It is a mid-sized market, and its pay is in the bottom quarter of US areas. Outside Texas, Mansfield and Florence-Muscle Shoals pay just above Corpus Christi and Lawton and Morristown just below. All four are within $530 a year of the median in Corpus Christi. Of the three markets with about as many recruiters, all three pay more.

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