Recruiter salary in Jacksonville, NC

Pay in Jacksonville against North Carolina and the US

Recruiters at the 90th percentile earn $113,310, 2.6 times the 10th percentile; the US ratio is 2.7. The middle half of recruiters in Jacksonville earns $47,210–$88,610. The mean ($71,780) 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 $41,400 wide, wider than in North Carolina as a whole ($40,060) and the US ($40,770), so what a recruiter earns in Jacksonville depends more on the employer.

What to budget for a recruiter here

The step from the 25th percentile to the median is $17,520 a year; from the median to the 75th it is $23,880, or about $30,813 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 Jacksonville, and the North Carolina statewide median of $73,070 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in Jacksonville

At the $64,730 median, a local hire costs about $83,523 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $18,793 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 Jacksonville

Of the 16 roles we track in Jacksonville, this one ranks #3 by median pay, between accountants ($73,740) and executive assistants ($61,360). Project Coordinator is the highest at $79,240.

Measured against the US median, recruiters rank #4 of the 16 roles we track in Jacksonville (-14.8%), between accountants (-11.9%) and bookkeepers (-15.3%). The typical role here is at -19.2%, so, measured against the US, recruiters cost more in Jacksonville than the area's general pay level would suggest. Recruiters hold 5.7% of the jobs in these 16 roles in Jacksonville, 6.0% across North Carolina and 5.8% nationally. That is close to the national mix.

Other areas in North Carolina

Across the 18 areas of North Carolina with data for this job, the median runs from $61,660 in Rocky Mount to $81,100 in Durham-Chapel Hill, a gap of $19,440 a year. Of the 13 areas in North Carolina with more recruiters than Jacksonville, 5 pay less, the largest of them the Central North Carolina nonmetro area ($61,780), the Western North Carolina nonmetro area ($63,710) and the Eastern North Carolina nonmetro area ($64,080).

Jacksonville against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Jacksonville is #361 of 521 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside North Carolina, Longview and Cape Coral-Fort Myers pay just above Jacksonville and Kingsport-Bristol and Kalamazoo-Portage just below. All four are within $170 a year of the median in Jacksonville. Of the three markets with about as many recruiters, two pay more.

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