Sales Development Representative salary in Manhattan, KS

Pay in Manhattan against Kansas and the US

The middle half of sales development representatives in Manhattan earns $43,120–$98,470. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $105,670, only 2.9 times the bottom tenth, against 3.9 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. The mean ($71,110) is 13% 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 $55,350 wide, wider than in Kansas as a whole ($53,390) and the US ($52,810), so what a sales development representative earns in Manhattan depends more on the employer.

What to budget for a sales development representative here

Pay climbs faster above the median than below it here: the 75th percentile is $35,570 over the median, the 25th only $19,780 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $45,897 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 Manhattan, and the Kansas statewide median of $62,580 falls between the 25th percentile and the median.

What a hire really costs in Manhattan

At the $62,900 median, a local hire costs about $81,161 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $18,261 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 Manhattan

Of the 15 roles we track in Manhattan, this one ranks #5 by median pay, between accountants ($65,900) and office managers ($61,530). Project Coordinator is the highest at $95,390.

Measured against the US median, sales development representatives rank #6 of the 15 roles we track in Manhattan (-10.1%), between bookkeepers (-10.1%) and payroll specialists (-11.4%). The typical role here is at -11.5%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Sales development representatives hold 6.6% of the jobs in these 15 roles in Manhattan, 7.9% across Kansas and 8.0% 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. Of the 3 areas in Kansas with more sales development representatives than Manhattan, 2 pay less: Wichita, KS ($59,110) and the Kansas nonmetro area ($52,830).

Manhattan against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Manhattan is #302 of 518 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Kansas, Austin-Round Rock and Nashville-Murfreesboro pay just above Manhattan and Tucson and Lafayette-West Lafayette just below. All four are within $30 a year of the median in Manhattan. Of the three markets with about as many sales development representatives, one pays more.

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