Recruiter salary in the Kansas nonmetro area

Pay in the Kansas nonmetro area against Kansas and the US

The middle half of recruiters in the Kansas nonmetro area earns $51,400–$78,990. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $103,000, only 2.3 times the bottom tenth, against 2.7 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. The mean ($68,580) is 12% 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 $27,590 wide, against $38,190 across Kansas and $40,770 nationally: employers in the Kansas 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 $17,980 over the median, the 25th only $9,610 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $23,200 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 Kansas nonmetro area, and the Kansas statewide median of $70,870 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in the Kansas 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 $17,713 to the $61,010 median and brings it to $78,723 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 Kansas nonmetro area

Of the 17 roles we track in the Kansas nonmetro area, this one ranks #4 by median pay, between marketing specialists ($63,280) and office managers ($60,410). Project Coordinator is the highest at $97,010.

Measured against the US median, recruiters rank #14 of the 17 roles we track in the Kansas nonmetro area (-19.7%), between marketing specialists (-19.7%) and executive assistants (-21.7%). The typical role here is at -13.1%, so, measured against the US, recruiters cost less in the Kansas nonmetro area than the area's general pay level would suggest. Recruiters hold 3.8% of the jobs in these 17 roles in the Kansas nonmetro area, 4.8% across Kansas and 5.8% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Kansas

Across the 5 areas of Kansas with data for this job, the median runs from $61,010 in the Kansas nonmetro area to $76,690 in Topeka, a gap of $15,680 a year. The one area in Kansas with more recruiters, Wichita, KS ($65,390), also pays more.

the Kansas nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Kansas nonmetro area is #100 of 521 US areas for this job. It is one of the larger markets for this job, yet its pay sits in the bottom quarter of US areas. Outside Kansas, Albany and Pocatello pay just above the Kansas nonmetro area and Muncie and Erie just below. All four are within $150 a year of the median in the Kansas nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many recruiters, all three pay more.

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