Sales Development Representative salary in the Kansas nonmetro area

Pay in the Kansas nonmetro area against Kansas and the US

Pay is more spread out here than nationally: the top tenth earns $120,690 or more, 4.3 times the bottom tenth, against 3.9 times across the US. Two offers for the same title can sit far apart. The middle half of sales development representatives in the Kansas nonmetro area earns $36,880–$78,500. The mean ($65,750) is 24% 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 $41,620 wide, against $53,390 across Kansas and $52,810 nationally: employers in the Kansas 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 $25,670 over the median, the 25th only $15,950 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $33,123 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 Kansas nonmetro area, and the Kansas statewide median of $62,580 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in the Kansas nonmetro area

At the $52,830 median, a local hire costs about $68,168 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $15,338 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 the Kansas nonmetro area

Of the 17 roles we track in the Kansas nonmetro area, this one ranks #8 by median pay, between payroll specialists ($53,550) and paralegals ($47,400). Project Coordinator is the highest at $97,010.

Measured against the US median, sales development representatives rank #16 of the 17 roles we track in the Kansas nonmetro area (-24.5%), between executive assistants (-21.7%) and paralegals (-24.6%). The typical role here is at -13.1%, so, measured against the US, sales development representatives cost less in the Kansas nonmetro area than the area's general pay level would suggest. Sales development representatives hold 4.8% of the jobs in these 17 roles in the Kansas nonmetro area, 7.9% across Kansas and 7.9% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Kansas

Across the 5 areas of Kansas with data for this job, the median runs from $52,830 in the Kansas nonmetro area to $78,410 in Lawrence, a gap of $25,580 a year. The one area in Kansas with more sales development representatives, Wichita, KS ($59,110), also pays more.

the Kansas nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Kansas nonmetro area is #98 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 Kansas, Grants Pass and Coeur d'Alene pay just above the Kansas nonmetro area and Little Rock-North Little Rock and Johnstown just below. All four are within $200 a year of the median in the Kansas nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many sales development representatives, all three pay more.

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