Recruiter salary in Lafayette, LA

Pay in Lafayette against Louisiana and the US

The middle half of recruiters in Lafayette earns $45,730–$73,540. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $91,070, only 2.4 times the bottom tenth, against 2.7 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. The mean ($60,910) 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 $27,810 wide, against $29,810 across Louisiana and $40,770 nationally: employers in Lafayette 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 $17,470 over the median, the 25th only $10,340 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $22,542 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 Lafayette, and the Louisiana statewide median of $61,300 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 Lafayette

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 $16,278 to the $56,070 median and brings it to $72,348 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 Lafayette

Of the 16 roles we track in Lafayette, this one ranks #5 by median pay, between marketing specialists ($56,660) and paralegals ($52,130). Project Coordinator is the highest at $80,720.

Measured against the US median, recruiters rank #15 of the 16 roles we track in Lafayette (-26.2%), between office managers (-25.7%) and marketing specialists (-28.1%). The typical role here is at -18.7%, so, measured against the US, recruiters cost less in Lafayette than the area's general pay level would suggest. Recruiters hold 3.7% of the jobs in these 16 roles in Lafayette, 4.5% across Louisiana and 5.9% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Louisiana

Across the 13 areas of Louisiana with data for this job, the median runs from $54,610 in Monroe to $64,990 in Slidell-Mandeville, a gap of $10,380 a year. All 2 areas in Louisiana with more recruiters than Lafayette also pay more, among them Baton Rouge, LA ($61,400) and New Orleans-Metairie, LA ($64,780).

Lafayette against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Lafayette is #230 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 Louisiana, Casper and Las Cruces pay just above Lafayette and Gadsden and Brownsville-Harlingen just below. All four are within $1,080 a year of the median in Lafayette. Of the three markets with about as many recruiters, all three pay more.

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