Sales Development Representative salary in Burlington, NC

Pay in Burlington against North Carolina and the US

The middle half of sales development representatives in Burlington earns $42,150–$82,690. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $125,550, only 3.5 times the bottom tenth, against 3.9 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. The mean ($70,760) is 21% 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 $40,540 wide, against $51,270 across North Carolina and $52,810 nationally: employers in Burlington 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 $24,350 over the median, the 25th only $16,190 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $31,419 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 Burlington, and the North Carolina statewide median of $62,620 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in Burlington

At the $58,340 median, a local hire costs about $75,277 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $16,937 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 Burlington

Of the 15 roles we track in Burlington, this one ranks #7 by median pay, between office managers ($59,430) and payroll specialists ($55,440). Project Coordinator is the highest at $83,370.

Measured against the US median, sales development representatives rank #12 of the 15 roles we track in Burlington (-16.6%), between office managers (-14.5%) and paralegals (-17.9%). The typical role here is at -8.3%, so, measured against the US, sales development representatives cost less in Burlington than the area's general pay level would suggest. Sales development representatives hold 6.4% of the jobs in these 15 roles in Burlington, 8.9% across North Carolina and 8.0% 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 $45,900 in Goldsboro to $72,460 in Durham-Chapel Hill, a gap of $26,560 a year. Of the 14 areas in North Carolina with more sales development representatives than Burlington, 8 pay less, the largest of them Winston-Salem, NC ($58,240), Asheville, NC ($57,840) and the Eastern North Carolina nonmetro area ($57,390).

Burlington against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Burlington is #299 of 518 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside North Carolina, Brunswick-St. Simons and Jackson pay just above Burlington and Sebastian-Vero Beach and Lafayette just below. All four are within $230 a year of the median in Burlington. Of the three markets with about as many sales development representatives, one pays more.

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