Sales Development Representative salary in Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN

Pay in Lafayette-West Lafayette against Indiana and the US

The middle half of sales development representatives in Lafayette-West Lafayette earns $47,460–$90,700. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $122,250, only 3.3 times the bottom tenth, against 3.9 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. The mean ($73,280) is 17% 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 $43,240 wide, against $43,800 across Indiana and $52,810 nationally: employers in Lafayette-West Lafayette 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 $27,830 over the median, the 25th only $15,410 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $35,910 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 Lafayette-West Lafayette, and the Indiana statewide median of $63,960 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in Lafayette-West Lafayette

At the $62,870 median, a local hire costs about $81,123 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $18,253 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 Lafayette-West Lafayette

Of the 16 roles we track in Lafayette-West Lafayette, this one ranks #7 by median pay, between marketing specialists ($64,120) and payroll specialists ($52,920). Project Coordinator is the highest at $83,330.

Measured against the US median, sales development representatives rank #11 of the 16 roles we track in Lafayette-West Lafayette (-10.2%), between payroll specialists (-9.2%) and executive assistants (-15.2%). The typical role here is at -8.2%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Sales development representatives hold 6.0% of the jobs in these 16 roles in Lafayette-West Lafayette, 8.3% across Indiana and 8.0% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Indiana

Across the 15 areas of Indiana with data for this job, the median runs from $53,660 in Kokomo to $65,850 in Indianapolis-Carmel, a gap of $12,190 a year. Of the 8 areas in Indiana with more sales development representatives than Lafayette-West Lafayette, 6 pay less, the largest of them Fort Wayne, IN ($60,750), Evansville, IN ($62,270) and the Northern Indiana nonmetro area ($59,410).

Lafayette-West Lafayette against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Lafayette-West Lafayette is #259 of 518 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Indiana, Tucson and Manhattan pay just above Lafayette-West Lafayette and Appleton and Charlottesville just below. All four are within $80 a year of the median in Lafayette-West Lafayette. Of the three markets with about as many sales development representatives, one pays more.

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