Sales Development Representative salary in Bloomington, IL

Pay in Bloomington against Illinois and the US

Sales development representatives at the 90th percentile earn $130,000, 3.7 times the 10th percentile; the US ratio is 3.9. The middle half of sales development representatives in Bloomington earns $45,670–$86,650. The mean ($71,850) is 16% 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 $40,980 wide, against $50,780 across Illinois and $52,810 nationally: employers in Bloomington 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 $24,800 over the median, the 25th only $16,180 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $32,000 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 Bloomington, and the Illinois statewide median of $66,900 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in Bloomington

At the $61,850 median, a local hire costs about $79,806 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $17,956 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 Bloomington

Of the 14 roles we track in Bloomington, this one ranks #6 by median pay, between payroll specialists ($62,400) and paralegals ($60,160). Project Coordinator is the highest at $101,110.

Measured against the US median, sales development representatives rank #10 of the 14 roles we track in Bloomington (-11.6%), between bookkeepers (-10.8%) and data entry specialists (-12.3%). The typical role here is at -7.8%, so, measured against the US, sales development representatives cost less in Bloomington than the area's general pay level would suggest. Sales development representatives hold 8.0% of the jobs in these 14 roles in Bloomington, 13.3% across Illinois and 9.3% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Illinois

Across the 12 areas of Illinois with data for this job, the median runs from $48,730 in the Northwest Illinois nonmetro area to $70,710 in Chicago-Naperville, a gap of $21,980 a year. Of the 9 areas in Illinois with more sales development representatives than Bloomington, 8 pay less, the largest of them Peoria, IL ($60,530), Rockford, IL ($59,720) and the West Central Illinois nonmetro area ($48,920).

Bloomington against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Bloomington is #232 of 518 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Illinois, Jefferson City and Tallahassee pay just above Bloomington and Charlotte-Concord and Baltimore-Columbia just below. All four are within $30 a year of the median in Bloomington. Of the three markets with about as many sales development representatives, one pays more.

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