Recruiter salary in Odessa, TX

Pay in Odessa against Texas and the US

The middle half of recruiters in Odessa earns $51,240–$87,930. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $100,690, only 2.2 times the bottom tenth, against 2.7 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. The mean ($70,820) 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 $36,690 wide, against $37,890 across Texas and $40,770 nationally: employers in Odessa 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 $22,820 over the median, the 25th only $13,870 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $29,445 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 Odessa, and the Texas statewide median of $68,920 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in Odessa

At the $65,110 median, a local hire costs about $84,013 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $18,903 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 Odessa

Of the 16 roles we track in Odessa, this one ranks #5 by median pay, between executive assistants ($70,020) and office managers ($63,280). Project Coordinator is the highest at $98,590.

Measured against the US median, recruiters rank #14 of the 16 roles we track in Odessa (-14.3%), between medical administrative assistants (-12.4%) and data entry specialists (-14.7%). The typical role here is at -5.0%, so, measured against the US, recruiters cost less in Odessa than the area's general pay level would suggest. Recruiters hold 4.2% of the jobs in these 16 roles in Odessa, 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 24 areas in Texas with more recruiters than Odessa, 18 pay less, the largest of them El Paso, TX ($58,990), the North Region of Texas nonmetro area ($62,490) and McAllen-Edinburg, TX ($53,600).

Odessa against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Odessa is #363 of 521 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Texas, Yuma and Pittsburgh pay just above Odessa and Logan and Slidell-Mandeville just below. All four are within $150 a year of the median in Odessa. Of the three markets with about as many recruiters, one pays more.

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