Recruiter salary in the Western North Carolina nonmetro area

Pay in the Western North Carolina nonmetro area against North Carolina and the US

The middle half of recruiters in the Western North Carolina nonmetro area earns $51,270–$77,890. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $103,290, only 2.3 times the bottom tenth, against 2.7 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. The mean ($69,740) 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 $26,620 wide, against $40,060 across North Carolina and $40,770 nationally: employers in the Western North Carolina nonmetro area pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for a recruiter here

The step from the 25th percentile to the median is $12,440 a year; from the median to the 75th it is $14,180, or about $18,297 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 Western North Carolina nonmetro area, and the North Carolina statewide median of $73,070 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in the Western North Carolina 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 $18,496 to the $63,710 median and brings it to $82,206 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 Western North Carolina nonmetro area

Of the 17 roles we track in the Western North Carolina nonmetro area, this one ranks #4 by median pay, between marketing specialists ($63,800) and executive assistants ($58,980). Project Coordinator is the highest at $91,200.

Measured against the US median, recruiters rank #10 of the 17 roles we track in the Western North Carolina nonmetro area (-16.1%), between medical administrative assistants (-15.6%) and customer support specialists (-17.4%). The typical role here is at -15.6%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Recruiters hold 4.6% of the jobs in these 17 roles in the Western North Carolina nonmetro area, 6.0% across North Carolina and 5.8% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in North Carolina

Across the 18 areas of North Carolina with data for this job, the median runs from $61,660 in Rocky Mount to $81,100 in Durham-Chapel Hill, a gap of $19,440 a year. Of the 6 areas in North Carolina with more recruiters than the Western North Carolina nonmetro area, 1 pays less: the Central North Carolina nonmetro area ($61,780).

the Western North Carolina nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Western North Carolina nonmetro area is #127 of 521 US areas for this job. It is one of the larger markets for this job, with pay near the middle of the US range. Outside North Carolina, Kankakee and Idaho Falls pay just above the Western North Carolina nonmetro area and Decatur and South Bend-Mishawaka just below. All four are within $150 a year of the median in the Western North Carolina nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many recruiters, two pay more.

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