Sales Development Representative salary in Rocky Mount, NC

Pay in Rocky Mount against North Carolina and the US

Pay is more spread out here than nationally: the top tenth earns $160,350 or more, 5.3 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 Rocky Mount earns $43,430–$101,990. The mean ($76,160) is 27% 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 $58,560 wide, wider than in North Carolina as a whole ($51,270) and the US ($52,810), so what a sales development representative earns in Rocky Mount 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 $42,000 over the median, the 25th only $16,560 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $54,194 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 Rocky Mount, and the North Carolina statewide median of $62,620 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in Rocky Mount

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 $17,416 to the $59,990 median and brings it to $77,406 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 Rocky Mount

Of the 17 roles we track in Rocky Mount, this one ranks #6 by median pay, between recruiters ($61,660) and office managers ($59,160). Project Coordinator is the highest at $91,010.

Measured against the US median, sales development representatives rank #12 of the 17 roles we track in Rocky Mount (-14.3%), between e-commerce order specialists (-13.9%) and office managers (-14.9%). The typical role here is at -12.7%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Sales development representatives hold 6.2% of the jobs in these 17 roles in Rocky Mount, 8.8% across North Carolina and 7.9% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in North Carolina

Across the 18 areas of North Carolina with data for this job, the median runs from $45,900 in Goldsboro to $72,460 in Durham-Chapel Hill, a gap of $26,560 a year. Of the 16 areas in North Carolina with more sales development representatives than Rocky Mount, 11 pay less, the largest of them Winston-Salem, NC ($58,240), Asheville, NC ($57,840) and the Eastern North Carolina nonmetro area ($57,390).

Rocky Mount against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Rocky Mount is #368 of 518 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside North Carolina, Cincinnati and Albany pay just above Rocky Mount and Missoula and Billings just below. All four are within $60 a year of the median in Rocky Mount. Of the three markets with about as many sales development representatives, one pays more.

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