Sales Development Representative salary in Albany, GA

Pay in Albany against Georgia and the US

Pay is more spread out here than nationally: the top tenth earns $166,640 or more, 4.9 times the bottom tenth, against 3.9 times across the US. Two offers for the same title can sit far apart. The middle half of sales development representatives in Albany earns $43,720–$126,230. The mean ($87,750) is 22% 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 $82,510 wide, wider than in Georgia as a whole ($55,400) and the US ($52,810), so what a sales development representative earns in Albany depends more on the employer.

What to budget for a sales development representative here

Pay climbs faster above the median than below it here: the 75th percentile is $54,210 over the median, the 25th only $28,300 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $69,948 a year in employer cost. 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 $69,990 falls between the 25th percentile and the median in Albany, and the Georgia statewide median of $75,280 falls between the median and the 75th percentile.

What a hire really costs in Albany

At the $72,020 median, a local hire costs about $92,929 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $20,909 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 Albany

Of the 15 roles we track in Albany, this one ranks #3 by median pay, between accountants ($73,980) and recruiters ($61,110). Project Coordinator is the highest at $98,850.

Measured against the US median, this job is the best paid of the 15 roles we track in Albany (+2.9%); customer support specialists come last (-25.9%). The typical role here is at -15.6%, so, measured against the US, sales development representatives cost more in Albany than the area's general pay level would suggest. Sales development representatives hold 9.1% of the jobs in these 15 roles in Albany, 9.2% across Georgia and 8.0% nationally. That is close to the national mix.

Other areas in Georgia

Across the 18 areas of Georgia with data for this job, the median runs from $48,120 in the East Georgia nonmetro area to $78,950 in Atlanta-Sandy Springs, a gap of $30,830 a year. Of the 7 areas in Georgia with more sales development representatives than Albany, 6 pay less, the largest of them Savannah, GA ($61,510), Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC ($57,350) and Columbus, GA-AL ($60,560).

Albany against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Albany is #242 of 518 US areas for this job. It is a mid-sized market, and its pay is in the top quarter of US areas. Outside Georgia, Longview-Kelso and Durham-Chapel Hill pay just above Albany and Sacramento-Roseville and Bellingham just below. All four are within $440 a year of the median in Albany. Of the three markets with about as many sales development representatives, none pays as much.

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