Recruiter salary in the Northern Vermont nonmetro area

Pay in the Northern Vermont nonmetro area against Vermont and the US

The middle half of recruiters in the Northern Vermont nonmetro area earns $63,470–$86,240. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $107,430, only 2.0 times the bottom tenth, against 2.7 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is only $22,770 wide, against $29,400 across Vermont and $40,770 nationally: employers in the Northern Vermont nonmetro area pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for a recruiter here

An offer at the 75th percentile instead of the median adds $11,470 a year in pay and about $14,800 in employer cost. Going down to the 25th percentile saves $11,300 in pay. 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 Northern Vermont nonmetro area, and the Vermont statewide median of $77,800 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in the Northern Vermont 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 $21,707 to the $74,770 median and brings it to $96,477 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 Northern Vermont nonmetro area

Of the 17 roles we track in the Northern Vermont nonmetro area, this one ranks #4 by median pay, between accountants ($76,210) and project coordinators ($70,200). Marketing Specialist is the highest at $76,920.

Measured against the US median, recruiters rank #11 of the 17 roles we track in the Northern Vermont nonmetro area (-1.5%), between office managers (-0.6%) and HR assistants (-1.8%). The typical role here is at +1.8%, so, measured against the US, recruiters cost less in the Northern Vermont nonmetro area than the area's general pay level would suggest. Recruiters hold 4.9% of the jobs in the 16 of these roles with a job count in the Northern Vermont nonmetro area, 5.4% across Vermont and 5.8% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Vermont

Across the 3 areas of Vermont with data for this job, the median runs from $74,770 in the Northern Vermont nonmetro area to $78,920 in Burlington-South Burlington, a gap of $4,150 a year. The one area in Vermont with more recruiters, Burlington-South Burlington, VT ($78,920), also pays more.

the Northern Vermont nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Northern Vermont nonmetro area is #325 of 521 US areas for this job. It is a mid-sized market, and its pay is in the top quarter of US areas. Outside Vermont, Cheyenne and Vineland pay just above the Northern Vermont nonmetro area and Manchester-Nashua and Carson City just below. All four are within $110 a year of the median in the Northern Vermont nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many recruiters, none pays as much.

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