Sales Development Representative salary in the Maryland nonmetro area

Pay in the Maryland nonmetro area against Maryland and the US

The middle half of sales development representatives in the Maryland nonmetro area earns $43,550–$78,640. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $104,950, only 2.9 times the bottom tenth, against 3.9 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. The mean ($65,510) is 18% 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 $35,090 wide, against $44,670 across Maryland and $52,810 nationally: employers in the Maryland 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 $23,300 over the median, the 25th only $11,790 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $30,065 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 Maryland nonmetro area, and the Maryland statewide median of $63,310 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in the Maryland nonmetro area

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 $16,066 to the $55,340 median and brings it to $71,406 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 the Maryland nonmetro area

Of the 17 roles we track in the Maryland nonmetro area, this one ranks #9 by median pay, between payroll specialists ($56,040) and bookkeepers ($48,880). Project Coordinator is the highest at $90,490.

Measured against the US median, sales development representatives rank #16 of the 17 roles we track in the Maryland nonmetro area (-20.9%), between customer support specialists (-15.3%) and marketing specialists (-24.5%). The typical role here is at -8.1%, so, measured against the US, sales development representatives cost less in the Maryland nonmetro area than the area's general pay level would suggest. Sales development representatives hold 5.6% of the jobs in these 17 roles in the Maryland nonmetro area, 7.0% across Maryland and 7.9% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Maryland

Across the 5 areas of Maryland with data for this job, the median runs from $55,340 in the Maryland nonmetro area to $61,840 in Baltimore-Columbia, a gap of $6,500 a year. The one area in Maryland with more sales development representatives, Baltimore-Columbia, MD ($61,840), also pays more.

the Maryland nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Maryland nonmetro area is #207 of 518 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Maryland, Kankakee and Paducah pay just above the Maryland nonmetro area and Daphne-Fairhope and Louisville just below. All four are within $440 a year of the median in the Maryland nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many sales development representatives, two pay more.

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