Recruiter salary in the Western Wisconsin nonmetro area

Pay in the Western Wisconsin nonmetro area against Wisconsin and the US

The middle half of recruiters in the Western Wisconsin nonmetro area earns $58,830–$94,520. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $112,400, only 2.3 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 $35,690 wide, between the figure for Wisconsin ($27,560) and the US figure ($40,770).

What to budget for a recruiter here

An offer at the 75th percentile instead of the median adds $18,120 a year in pay and about $23,381 in employer cost. Going down to the 25th percentile saves $17,570 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 25th percentile and the median in the Western Wisconsin nonmetro area, and the Wisconsin statewide median of $70,540 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in the Western Wisconsin nonmetro area

At the $76,400 median, a local hire costs about $98,581 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $22,181 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 Western Wisconsin nonmetro area

Of the 17 roles we track in the Western Wisconsin nonmetro area, this one ranks #3 by median pay, between accountants ($78,070) and executive assistants ($70,340). Project Coordinator is the highest at $84,420.

Measured against the US median, recruiters rank #5 of the 17 roles we track in the Western Wisconsin nonmetro area (+0.6%), between HR assistants (+2.0%) and data entry specialists (-0.3%). The typical role here is at -3.7%, so, measured against the US, recruiters cost more in the Western Wisconsin nonmetro area than the area's general pay level would suggest. Recruiters hold 6.6% of the jobs in these 17 roles in the Western Wisconsin nonmetro area, 6.2% across Wisconsin and 5.8% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Wisconsin

Across the 17 areas of Wisconsin with data for this job, the median runs from $63,270 in Janesville-Beloit to $76,660 in Madison, a gap of $13,390 a year. Of the 6 areas in Wisconsin with more recruiters than the Western Wisconsin nonmetro area, 5 pay less, the largest of them Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI ($74,970), the South Central Wisconsin nonmetro area ($65,570) and Green Bay, WI ($72,550).

the Western Wisconsin nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Western Wisconsin nonmetro area is #215 of 521 US areas for this job. It is a mid-sized market, and its pay is in the top quarter of US areas. Outside Wisconsin, Manhattan and Fargo pay just above the Western Wisconsin nonmetro area and Hanford-Corcoran and Virginia Beach-Chesapeake just below. All four are within $160 a year of the median in the Western Wisconsin nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many recruiters, one pays more.

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