Sales Development Representative salary in the Eastern Ohio nonmetro area

Pay in the Eastern Ohio nonmetro area against Ohio and the US

The middle half of sales development representatives in the Eastern Ohio nonmetro area earns $40,310–$77,470. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $99,870, only 2.7 times the bottom tenth, against 3.9 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. The mean ($63,930) is 18% 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 $37,160 wide, against $40,100 across Ohio and $52,810 nationally: employers in the Eastern Ohio nonmetro area 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 $23,330 over the median, the 25th only $13,830 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $30,103 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 the Eastern Ohio nonmetro area, and the Ohio statewide median of $59,390 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in the Eastern Ohio nonmetro area

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 $15,718 to the $54,140 median and brings it to $69,858 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 the Eastern Ohio nonmetro area

Of the 17 roles we track in the Eastern Ohio nonmetro area, this one ranks #7 by median pay, between office managers ($60,050) and payroll specialists ($53,550). Project Coordinator is the highest at $82,950.

Measured against the US median, this job is the lowest paid of the 17 roles we track in the Eastern Ohio nonmetro area (-22.6%); bookkeepers come first (-5.2%). The typical role here is at -10.8%, so, measured against the US, sales development representatives cost less in the Eastern Ohio nonmetro area than the area's general pay level would suggest. Sales development representatives hold 6.1% of the jobs in these 17 roles in the Eastern Ohio nonmetro area, 7.5% across Ohio and 7.9% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Ohio

Across the 16 areas of Ohio with data for this job, the median runs from $46,370 in Mansfield to $61,640 in Dayton-Kettering, a gap of $15,270 a year. Of the 11 areas in Ohio with more sales development representatives than the Eastern Ohio nonmetro area, 2 pay less: Toledo, OH ($53,470) and the North Northeastern Ohio nonmetro area ($53,890).

the Eastern Ohio nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Eastern Ohio nonmetro area is #210 of 518 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Ohio, Fayetteville and Cheyenne pay just above the Eastern Ohio nonmetro area and Punta Gorda and Visalia just below. All four are within $360 a year of the median in the Eastern Ohio nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many sales development representatives, two pay more.

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