Recruiter salary in the Southwest Colorado nonmetro area

Pay in the Southwest Colorado nonmetro area against Colorado and the US

The middle half of recruiters in the Southwest Colorado nonmetro area earns $53,380–$85,460. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $111,760, only 2.4 times the bottom tenth, against 2.7 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. The mean ($73,320) 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 $32,080 wide, against $42,350 across Colorado and $40,770 nationally: employers in the Southwest Colorado nonmetro area pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for a recruiter here

The step from the 25th percentile to the median is $13,880 a year; from the median to the 75th it is $18,200, or about $23,484 once benefits are added. 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 Southwest Colorado nonmetro area, and the Colorado statewide median of $80,840 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in the Southwest Colorado nonmetro area

At the $67,260 median, a local hire costs about $86,787 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $19,527 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 the Southwest Colorado nonmetro area

Of the 17 roles we track in the Southwest Colorado nonmetro area, this one ranks #5 by median pay, between paralegals ($69,110) and office managers ($66,290). Project Coordinator is the highest at $96,080.

Measured against the US median, recruiters rank #13 of the 17 roles we track in the Southwest Colorado nonmetro area (-11.4%), between project coordinators (-6.1%) and data entry specialists (-12.9%). The typical role here is at -2.7%, so, measured against the US, recruiters cost less in the Southwest Colorado nonmetro area than the area's general pay level would suggest. Recruiters hold 4.3% of the jobs in the 15 of these roles with a job count in the Southwest Colorado nonmetro area, 6.2% across Colorado and 5.9% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Colorado

Across the 10 areas of Colorado with data for this job, the median runs from $66,660 in Grand Junction to $86,200 in Boulder, a gap of $19,540 a year. All 6 areas in Colorado with more recruiters than the Southwest Colorado nonmetro area also pay more, among them Denver-Aurora, CO ($82,550) and Colorado Springs, CO ($79,000).

the Southwest Colorado nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Southwest Colorado nonmetro area is #294 of 521 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Colorado, Indianapolis-Carmel and Champaign-Urbana pay just above the Southwest Colorado nonmetro area and Racine-Mount Pleasant and Toledo just below. All four are within $100 a year of the median in the Southwest Colorado nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many recruiters, two pay more.

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