Recruiter salary in the Eastern and Southern Colorado nonmetro area

Pay in the Eastern and Southern Colorado nonmetro area against Colorado and the US

The middle half of recruiters in the Eastern and Southern Colorado nonmetro area earns $56,670–$88,320. The top tenth earns $120,650 or more, 2.5 times the bottom tenth, close to the US pattern of 2.7 times. The mean ($75,870) is 13% 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 $31,650 wide, against $42,350 across Colorado and $40,770 nationally: employers in the Eastern and Southern Colorado 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 $20,950 over the median, the 25th only $10,700 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $27,032 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 Eastern and Southern Colorado nonmetro area, and the Colorado statewide median of $80,840 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in the Eastern and Southern Colorado 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 $19,559 to the $67,370 median and brings it to $86,929 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 Eastern and Southern Colorado nonmetro area

Of the 16 roles we track in the Eastern and Southern Colorado nonmetro area, this one ranks #7 by median pay, between marketing specialists ($68,620) and executive assistants ($57,320). Project Coordinator is the highest at $96,080.

Measured against the US median, recruiters rank #14 of the 16 roles we track in the Eastern and Southern Colorado nonmetro area (-11.3%), between customer support specialists (-9.4%) and marketing specialists (-12.9%). The typical role here is at -4.9%, so, measured against the US, recruiters cost less in the Eastern and Southern Colorado nonmetro area than the area's general pay level would suggest. Recruiters hold 5.3% of the jobs in the 15 of these roles with a job count in the Eastern and Southern Colorado nonmetro area, 7.0% across Colorado and 6.3% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Colorado

Across the 10 areas of Colorado with data for this job, the median runs from $66,660 in Grand Junction to $86,200 in Boulder, a gap of $19,540 a year. Of the 7 areas in Colorado with more recruiters than the Eastern and Southern Colorado nonmetro area, 1 pays less: the Southwest Colorado nonmetro area ($67,260).

the Eastern and Southern Colorado nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Eastern and Southern Colorado nonmetro area is #368 of 521 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Colorado, Knoxville and Nashville-Murfreesboro pay just above the Eastern and Southern Colorado nonmetro area and Champaign-Urbana and Indianapolis-Carmel just below. All four are within $70 a year of the median in the Eastern and Southern Colorado nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many recruiters, none pays as much.

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