Sales Development Representative salary in Joplin, MO-KS

Pay in Joplin against Missouri and the US

The middle half of sales development representatives in Joplin earns $35,500–$68,720. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $97,920, only 3.3 times the bottom tenth, against 3.9 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. The mean ($57,080) is 29% 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 $33,220 wide, against $41,570 across Missouri and $52,810 nationally: employers in Joplin 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 $24,410 over the median, the 25th only $8,810 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $31,497 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 75th and 90th percentiles in Joplin, and the Missouri statewide median of $60,440 falls between the median and the 75th percentile. An offer at the national rate would beat what three quarters of local sales development representatives earn.

What a hire really costs in Joplin

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 $12,864 to the $44,310 median and brings it to $57,174 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 Joplin

Of the 14 roles we track in Joplin, this one ranks #10 by median pay, between bookkeepers ($45,180) and customer support specialists ($41,850). Project Coordinator is the highest at $77,760.

Measured against the US median, this job is the lowest paid of the 14 roles we track in Joplin (-36.7%); customer support specialists come first (-6.5%). The typical role here is at -18.6%, so, measured against the US, sales development representatives cost less in Joplin than the area's general pay level would suggest. Sales development representatives hold 4.7% of the jobs in these 14 roles in Joplin, 5.1% across Missouri and 8.1% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Missouri

Across the 12 areas of Missouri with data for this job, the median runs from $39,360 in the North Missouri nonmetro area to $64,950 in Kansas City, a gap of $25,590 a year. Of the 7 areas in Missouri with more sales development representatives than Joplin, 1 pays less: the Southwest Missouri nonmetro area ($42,150).

Joplin against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Joplin is #360 of 518 US areas for this job. It is a mid-sized market, and its pay is in the bottom quarter of US areas. Outside Missouri, Brownsville-Harlingen and Beckley pay just above Joplin and Alexandria and Grand Island just below. All four are within $690 a year of the median in Joplin. Of the three markets with about as many sales development representatives, all three pay more.

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