Sales Development Representative salary in San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA

Pay in San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles against California and the US

The middle half of sales development representatives in San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles earns $45,560–$96,990. The top tenth earns $150,910 or more, 3.8 times the bottom tenth, close to the US pattern of 3.9 times. The mean ($80,350) is 20% 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 $51,430 wide, against $67,790 across California and $52,810 nationally: employers in San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for a sales development representative here

An offer at the 75th percentile instead of the median adds $30,220 a year in pay and about $38,994 in employer cost. Going down to the 25th percentile saves $21,210 in pay. 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 San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, and the California statewide median of $80,850 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles

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 $19,385 to the $66,770 median and brings it to $86,155 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 San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles

Of the 17 roles we track in San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, this one ranks #7 by median pay, between paralegals ($75,200) and marketing specialists ($66,660). Project Coordinator is the highest at $108,730.

Measured against the US median, sales development representatives rank #15 of the 17 roles we track in San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles (-4.6%), between recruiters (+2.7%) and e-commerce order specialists (-7.4%). The typical role here is at +6.3%, so, measured against the US, sales development representatives cost less in San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles than the area's general pay level would suggest. Sales development representatives hold 6.6% of the jobs in these 17 roles in San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, 9.4% across California and 7.9% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in California

Across the 28 areas of California with data for this job, the median runs from $46,050 in Hanford-Corcoran to $116,510 in San Jose-Sunnyvale, a gap of $70,460 a year. Of the 15 areas in California with more sales development representatives than San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, 7 pay less, the largest of them Riverside-San Bernardino, CA ($62,230), Fresno, CA ($61,820) and Oxnard-Thousand Oaks, CA ($64,670).

San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles is #199 of 518 US areas for this job. It is a mid-sized market, and its pay is in the top quarter of US areas. Outside California, Rochester and Lansing-East Lansing pay just above San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles and Grand Junction and Grand Rapids-Wyoming just below. All four are within $430 a year of the median in San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles. Of the three markets with about as many sales development representatives, none pays as much.

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