Recruiter salary in the Southeast-Central Idaho nonmetro area

Pay in the Southeast-Central Idaho nonmetro area against Idaho and the US

The middle half of recruiters in the Southeast-Central Idaho nonmetro area earns $48,620–$79,130. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $100,380, only 2.4 times the bottom tenth, against 2.7 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. The mean ($67,820) 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 $30,510 wide, against $31,590 across Idaho and $40,770 nationally: employers in the Southeast-Central Idaho 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 $16,840 a year in pay and about $21,729 in employer cost. Going down to the 25th percentile saves $13,670 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 Southeast-Central Idaho nonmetro area, and the Idaho statewide median of $64,990 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in the Southeast-Central Idaho 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 $18,084 to the $62,290 median and brings it to $80,374 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 Southeast-Central Idaho nonmetro area

Of the 16 roles we track in the Southeast-Central Idaho nonmetro area, this one ranks #3 by median pay, between accountants ($75,280) and executive assistants ($56,630). Project Coordinator is the highest at $82,720.

Measured against the US median, recruiters rank #9 of the 16 roles we track in the Southeast-Central Idaho nonmetro area (-18.0%), between payroll specialists (-15.4%) and customer support specialists (-18.8%). The typical role here is at -16.7%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Recruiters hold 3.9% of the jobs in these 16 roles in the Southeast-Central Idaho nonmetro area, 4.7% across Idaho and 5.8% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Idaho

Across the 8 areas of Idaho with data for this job, the median runs from $61,150 in Pocatello to $66,060 in Boise City, a gap of $4,910 a year. The one area in Idaho with more recruiters, Boise City, ID ($66,060), also pays more.

the Southeast-Central Idaho nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Southeast-Central Idaho nonmetro area is #369 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 Idaho, Wichita Falls and Harrisonburg pay just above the Southeast-Central Idaho nonmetro area and Alexandria and Amarillo just below. All four are within $110 a year of the median in the Southeast-Central Idaho nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many recruiters, two pay more.

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