Recruiter salary in the West Tennessee nonmetro area

Pay in the West Tennessee nonmetro area against Tennessee and the US

The middle half of recruiters in the West Tennessee nonmetro area earns $51,310–$81,160. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $102,450, only 2.4 times the bottom tenth, against 2.7 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. The mean ($69,400) is 8% 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 $29,850 wide, against $31,310 across Tennessee and $40,770 nationally: employers in the West Tennessee 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 $17,080 a year in pay and about $22,039 in employer cost. Going down to the 25th percentile saves $12,770 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 West Tennessee nonmetro area, and the Tennessee statewide median of $67,370 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in the West Tennessee nonmetro area

At the $64,080 median, a local hire costs about $82,684 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $18,604 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 West Tennessee nonmetro area

Of the 17 roles we track in the West Tennessee nonmetro area, this one ranks #3 by median pay, between accountants ($71,340) and office managers ($60,990). Project Coordinator is the highest at $77,580.

Measured against the US median, recruiters rank #7 of the 17 roles we track in the West Tennessee nonmetro area (-15.6%), between accountants (-14.7%) and customer support specialists (-16.1%). The typical role here is at -16.4%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Recruiters hold 4.7% of the jobs in these 17 roles in the West Tennessee nonmetro area, 5.9% across Tennessee and 5.8% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Tennessee

Across the 14 areas of Tennessee with data for this job, the median runs from $59,820 in Morristown to $70,460 in the South Central Tennessee nonmetro area, a gap of $10,640 a year. Of the 9 areas in Tennessee with more recruiters than the West Tennessee nonmetro area, 3 pay less: Chattanooga, TN-GA ($61,660), the North Central Tennessee nonmetro area ($60,710) and the East Tennessee nonmetro area ($61,810).

the West Tennessee nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the West Tennessee nonmetro area is #284 of 521 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Tennessee, Kenosha and Bozeman pay just above the West Tennessee nonmetro area and Tucson and Altoona just below. All four are within $170 a year of the median in the West Tennessee nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many recruiters, all three pay more.

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