Sales Development Representative salary in Dothan, AL

Pay in Dothan against Alabama and the US

The middle half of sales development representatives in Dothan earns $42,320–$74,450. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $91,430, only 2.7 times the bottom tenth, against 3.9 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. The mean ($60,690) is 10% 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 $32,130 wide, against $34,160 across Alabama and $52,810 nationally: employers in Dothan 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 $19,510 over the median, the 25th only $12,620 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $25,174 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 Dothan, and the Alabama statewide median of $58,840 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in Dothan

At the $54,940 median, a local hire costs about $70,890 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $15,950 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 Dothan

Of the 14 roles we track in Dothan, this one ranks #6 by median pay, between office managers ($56,650) and marketing specialists ($47,790). Project Coordinator is the highest at $135,260.

Measured against the US median, sales development representatives rank #9 of the 14 roles we track in Dothan (-21.5%), between recruiters (-21.2%) and medical administrative assistants (-22.6%). The typical role here is at -21.1%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Sales development representatives hold 4.8% of the jobs in these 14 roles in Dothan, 6.0% across Alabama and 8.1% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Alabama

Across the 16 areas of Alabama with data for this job, the median runs from $46,570 in the Southwest Alabama nonmetro area to $64,460 in Huntsville, a gap of $17,890 a year. Of the 8 areas in Alabama with more sales development representatives than Dothan, 4 pay less, the largest of them Montgomery, AL ($51,490), the Northeast Alabama nonmetro area ($49,230) and Tuscaloosa, AL ($49,640).

Dothan against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Dothan is #365 of 518 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Alabama, Youngstown-Warren and Terre Haute pay just above Dothan and Lima and Michigan City-La Porte just below. All four are within $10 a year of the median in Dothan. Of the three markets with about as many sales development representatives, all three pay more.

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