Recruiter salary in Lubbock, TX

Pay in Lubbock against Texas and the US

The middle half of recruiters in Lubbock earns $47,800–$75,540. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $97,730, only 2.3 times the bottom tenth, against 2.7 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. The mean ($65,510) is 8% 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 $27,740 wide, against $37,890 across Texas and $40,770 nationally: employers in Lubbock pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for a recruiter here

The step from the 25th percentile to the median is $12,580 a year; from the median to the 75th it is $15,160, or about $19,561 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 75th and 90th percentiles in Lubbock, and the Texas statewide median of $68,920 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 Lubbock

At the $60,380 median, a local hire costs about $77,910 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $17,530 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 Lubbock

Of the 17 roles we track in Lubbock, this one ranks #4 by median pay, between executive assistants ($63,830) and office managers ($58,110). Project Coordinator is the highest at $77,110.

Measured against the US median, recruiters rank #11 of the 17 roles we track in Lubbock (-20.5%), between payroll specialists (-20.4%) and HR assistants (-20.5%). The typical role here is at -19.7%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Recruiters hold 3.6% of the jobs in these 17 roles in Lubbock, 5.4% across Texas and 5.8% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Texas

Across the 32 areas of Texas with data for this job, the median runs from $46,630 in Eagle Pass to $78,650 in Midland, a gap of $32,020 a year. Of the 12 areas in Texas with more recruiters than Lubbock, 4 pay less, the largest of them El Paso, TX ($58,990), McAllen-Edinburg, TX ($53,600) and the Hill Country Region of Texas nonmetro area ($57,450).

Lubbock against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Lubbock is #199 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 Texas, Mansfield and Florence-Muscle Shoals pay just above Lubbock and Lawton and Morristown just below. All four are within $560 a year of the median in Lubbock. Of the three markets with about as many recruiters, all three pay more.

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