Recruiter salary in the Southside Virginia nonmetro area

Pay in the Southside Virginia nonmetro area against Virginia and the US

The middle half of recruiters in the Southside Virginia nonmetro area earns $55,110–$87,790. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $109,480, only 2.4 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 $32,680 wide, against $46,900 across Virginia and $40,770 nationally: employers in the Southside Virginia 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 $17,750 a year in pay and about $22,903 in employer cost. Going down to the 25th percentile saves $14,930 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 Southside Virginia nonmetro area, and the Virginia statewide median of $82,090 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in the Southside Virginia 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 $20,334 to the $70,040 median and brings it to $90,374 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 Southside Virginia nonmetro area

Of the 17 roles we track in the Southside Virginia nonmetro area, this one ranks #3 by median pay, between accountants ($75,900) and sales development representatives ($68,720). Project Coordinator is the highest at $91,510.

Measured against the US median, recruiters rank #5 of the 17 roles we track in the Southside Virginia nonmetro area (-7.8%), between HR assistants (-5.7%) and data entry specialists (-8.0%). The typical role here is at -10.6%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Recruiters hold 5.1% of the jobs in these 17 roles in the Southside Virginia nonmetro area, 6.7% across Virginia and 5.8% nationally. That is close to the national mix.

Other areas in Virginia

Across the 13 areas of Virginia with data for this job, the median runs from $62,310 in Harrisonburg to $82,430 in Charlottesville, a gap of $20,120 a year. Of the 7 areas in Virginia with more recruiters than the Southside Virginia nonmetro area, 3 pay less: Roanoke, VA ($67,450), the Southwest Virginia nonmetro area ($63,800) and Lynchburg, VA ($69,490).

the Southside Virginia nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Southside Virginia nonmetro area is #311 of 521 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Virginia, Allentown-Bethlehem and Ames pay just above the Southside Virginia nonmetro area and Lexington-Fayette and Sumter just below. All four are within $50 a year of the median in the Southside Virginia nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many recruiters, none pays as much.

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