Recruiter salary in the Southern Ohio nonmetro area

Pay in the Southern Ohio nonmetro area against Ohio and the US

The middle half of recruiters in the Southern Ohio nonmetro area earns $50,060–$77,510. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $103,380, only 2.4 times the bottom tenth, against 2.7 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. The mean ($67,910) is 12% 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 $27,450 wide, against $37,890 across Ohio and $40,770 nationally: employers in the Southern Ohio nonmetro area 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 $17,080 over the median, the 25th only $10,370 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $22,039 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 the Southern Ohio nonmetro area, and the Ohio statewide median of $70,180 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in the Southern Ohio 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 $17,544 to the $60,430 median and brings it to $77,974 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 Southern Ohio nonmetro area

Of the 17 roles we track in the Southern Ohio nonmetro area, this one ranks #5 by median pay, between sales development representatives ($61,390) and office managers ($59,910). Project Coordinator is the highest at $82,910.

Measured against the US median, recruiters rank #16 of the 17 roles we track in the Southern Ohio nonmetro area (-20.4%), between paralegals (-19.1%) and marketing specialists (-24.8%). The typical role here is at -12.8%, so, measured against the US, recruiters cost less in the Southern Ohio nonmetro area than the area's general pay level would suggest. Recruiters hold 6.8% of the jobs in these 17 roles in the Southern Ohio nonmetro area, 6.5% across Ohio and 5.8% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Ohio

Across the 16 areas of Ohio with data for this job, the median runs from $60,430 in the Southern Ohio nonmetro area to $75,440 in Columbus, a gap of $15,010 a year. All 9 areas in Ohio with more recruiters than the Southern Ohio nonmetro area also pay more, among them Columbus, OH ($75,440) and Cincinnati, OH-KY ($73,010).

the Southern Ohio nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Southern Ohio nonmetro area is #153 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 Ohio, Florence-Muscle Shoals and Cleveland pay just above the Southern Ohio nonmetro area and Abilene and Lubbock just below. All four are within $130 a year of the median in the Southern Ohio nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many recruiters, all three pay more.

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