Recruiter salary in the Eastern New Mexico nonmetro area

Pay in the Eastern New Mexico nonmetro area against New Mexico and the US

The middle half of recruiters in the Eastern New Mexico nonmetro area earns $49,500–$75,310. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $94,620, only 2.1 times the bottom tenth, against 2.7 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. The mean ($65,250) is 9% 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 $25,810 wide, against $33,340 across New Mexico and $40,770 nationally: employers in the Eastern New Mexico 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 $15,650 over the median, the 25th only $10,160 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $20,194 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 75th and 90th percentiles in the Eastern New Mexico nonmetro area, and the New Mexico statewide median of $68,050 falls between the median and the 75th percentile. An offer at the national rate would beat what three quarters of local recruiters earn.

What a hire really costs in the Eastern New Mexico 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 $17,321 to the $59,660 median and brings it to $76,981 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 New Mexico nonmetro area

Of the 15 roles we track in the Eastern New Mexico nonmetro area, this one ranks #8 by median pay, between payroll specialists ($59,980) and marketing specialists ($53,330). Project Coordinator is the highest at $93,810.

Measured against the US median, recruiters rank #14 of the 15 roles we track in the Eastern New Mexico nonmetro area (-21.4%), between customer support specialists (-17.9%) and marketing specialists (-32.3%). The typical role here is at -9.9%, so, measured against the US, recruiters cost less in the Eastern New Mexico nonmetro area than the area's general pay level would suggest. Recruiters hold 3.2% of the jobs in these 15 roles in the Eastern New Mexico nonmetro area, 4.3% across New Mexico 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 Mexico

Across the 6 areas of New Mexico with data for this job, the median runs from $57,150 in Las Cruces to $76,170 in the Northern New Mexico nonmetro area, a gap of $19,020 a year. The one area in New Mexico with more recruiters, Albuquerque, NM ($73,290), also pays more.

the Eastern New Mexico nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Eastern New Mexico nonmetro area is #257 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 New Mexico, Huntington-Ashland and Dothan pay just above the Eastern New Mexico nonmetro area and Victoria and Sebring just below. All four are within $220 a year of the median in the Eastern New Mexico nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many recruiters, two pay more.

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