Sales Development Representative salary in Greenville-Anderson, SC

Pay in Greenville-Anderson against South Carolina and the US

The middle half of sales development representatives in Greenville-Anderson earns $39,930–$77,340. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $110,410, only 3.3 times the bottom tenth, against 3.9 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. The mean ($65,860) is 28% 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 $37,410 wide, against $43,210 across South Carolina and $52,810 nationally: employers in Greenville-Anderson 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 $25,880 over the median, the 25th only $11,530 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $33,394 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 Greenville-Anderson, and the South Carolina statewide median of $58,510 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in Greenville-Anderson

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 $14,940 to the $51,460 median and brings it to $66,400 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 Greenville-Anderson

Of the 17 roles we track in Greenville-Anderson, this one ranks #9 by median pay, between payroll specialists ($53,560) and bookkeepers ($49,600). Project Coordinator is the highest at $94,780.

Measured against the US median, this job is the lowest paid of the 17 roles we track in Greenville-Anderson (-26.5%); bookkeepers come first (-2.1%). The typical role here is at -8.1%, so, measured against the US, sales development representatives cost less in Greenville-Anderson than the area's general pay level would suggest. Sales development representatives hold 9.2% of the jobs in these 17 roles in Greenville-Anderson, 8.4% across South Carolina and 7.9% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in South Carolina

Across the 11 areas of South Carolina with data for this job, the median runs from $46,930 in the Northeastern South Carolina nonmetro area to $62,600 in Charleston-North Charleston, a gap of $15,670 a year. No other area in South Carolina has as many sales development representatives, and 4 of the other 10 pay less.

Greenville-Anderson against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Greenville-Anderson is #46 of 518 US areas for this job. It is one of the larger markets for this job, yet its pay sits in the bottom quarter of US areas. Outside South Carolina, Montgomery and Jackson pay just above Greenville-Anderson and Valdosta and Elizabethtown just below. All four are within $100 a year of the median in Greenville-Anderson. Of the three markets with about as many sales development representatives, all three pay more.

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