Sales Development Representative salary in Amarillo, TX

Pay in Amarillo against Texas and the US

The middle half of sales development representatives in Amarillo earns $38,300–$75,160. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $98,990, only 3.4 times the bottom tenth, against 3.9 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. The mean ($60,340) is 19% 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 $36,860 wide, against $43,030 across Texas and $52,810 nationally: employers in Amarillo pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for a sales development representative here

Pay climbs faster above the median than below it here: the 75th percentile is $24,630 over the median, the 25th only $12,230 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $31,781 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 median and the 75th percentile in Amarillo, and the Texas statewide median of $61,680 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in Amarillo

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 $14,670 to the $50,530 median and brings it to $65,200 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 Amarillo

Of the 17 roles we track in Amarillo, this one ranks #8 by median pay, between paralegals ($59,740) and payroll specialists ($49,850). Project Coordinator is the highest at $83,210.

Measured against the US median, this job is the lowest paid of the 17 roles we track in Amarillo (-27.8%); e-commerce order specialists come first (-2.6%). The typical role here is at -14.2%, so, measured against the US, sales development representatives cost less in Amarillo than the area's general pay level would suggest. Sales development representatives hold 6.7% of the jobs in these 17 roles in Amarillo, 8.6% across Texas and 7.9% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Texas

Across the 32 areas of Texas with data for this job, the median runs from $44,460 in Brownsville-Harlingen to $80,460 in Midland, a gap of $36,000 a year. Of the 20 areas in Texas with more sales development representatives than Amarillo, 5 pay less, the largest of them El Paso, TX ($45,200), McAllen-Edinburg, TX ($49,350) and Killeen-Temple, TX ($48,350).

Amarillo against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Amarillo is #179 of 518 US areas for this job. It is a mid-sized market, and its pay is in the bottom quarter of US areas. Outside Texas, Lexington-Fayette and Rapid City pay just above Amarillo and Lewiston and Houma-Bayou Cane just below. All four are within $390 a year of the median in Amarillo. Of the three markets with about as many sales development representatives, all three pay more.

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