Recruiter salary in Elkhart-Goshen, IN

Pay in Elkhart-Goshen against Indiana and the US

The middle half of recruiters in Elkhart-Goshen earns $55,300–$83,320. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $105,120, only 2.3 times the bottom tenth, against 2.7 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. The mean ($72,120) 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 $28,020 wide, against $32,290 across Indiana and $40,770 nationally: employers in Elkhart-Goshen 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 $18,460 over the median, the 25th only $9,560 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $23,819 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 Elkhart-Goshen, and the Indiana statewide median of $65,600 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in Elkhart-Goshen

At the $64,860 median, a local hire costs about $83,690 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $18,830 here. 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 Elkhart-Goshen

Of the 17 roles we track in Elkhart-Goshen, this one ranks #5 by median pay, between marketing specialists ($65,240) and sales development representatives ($61,590). Project Coordinator is the highest at $86,640.

Measured against the US median, recruiters rank #13 of the 17 roles we track in Elkhart-Goshen (-14.6%), between sales development representatives (-12.0%) and project coordinators (-15.3%). The typical role here is at -7.5%, so, measured against the US, recruiters cost less in Elkhart-Goshen than the area's general pay level would suggest. Recruiters hold 7.1% of the jobs in these 17 roles in Elkhart-Goshen, 6.4% across Indiana and 5.8% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Indiana

Across the 15 areas of Indiana with data for this job, the median runs from $60,990 in Muncie to $67,690 in Michigan City-La Porte, a gap of $6,700 a year. Of the 7 areas in Indiana with more recruiters than Elkhart-Goshen, 5 pay less, the largest of them the Northern Indiana nonmetro area ($62,530), the Southern Indiana nonmetro area ($62,680) and South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI ($63,700).

Elkhart-Goshen against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Elkhart-Goshen is #195 of 521 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Indiana, Eau Claire and Slidell-Mandeville pay just above Elkhart-Goshen and New Orleans-Metairie and Cape Coral-Fort Myers just below. All four are within $130 a year of the median in Elkhart-Goshen. Of the three markets with about as many recruiters, all three pay more.

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