Sales Development Representative salary in the Southern Ohio nonmetro area

Pay in the Southern Ohio nonmetro area against Ohio and the US

Sales development representatives at the 90th percentile earn $124,550, 3.6 times the 10th percentile; the US ratio is 3.9. The middle half of sales development representatives in the Southern Ohio nonmetro area earns $40,310–$94,290. The mean ($72,740) 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 $53,980 wide, wider than in Ohio as a whole ($40,100) and the US ($52,810), so what a sales development representative earns in the Southern Ohio nonmetro area 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 $32,900 over the median, the 25th only $21,080 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $42,452 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 Southern Ohio nonmetro area, and the Ohio statewide median of $59,390 falls between the 25th percentile and the median.

What a hire really costs in the Southern Ohio 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 $17,823 to the $61,390 median and brings it to $79,213 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 Southern Ohio nonmetro area

Of the 17 roles we track in the Southern Ohio nonmetro area, this one ranks #4 by median pay, between executive assistants ($63,500) and recruiters ($60,430). Project Coordinator is the highest at $82,910.

Measured against the US median, sales development representatives rank #8 of the 17 roles we track in the Southern Ohio nonmetro area (-12.3%), between payroll specialists (-11.9%) and customer support specialists (-12.8%). The typical role here is at -12.8%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Sales development representatives hold 5.8% of the jobs in these 17 roles in the Southern Ohio nonmetro area, 7.5% across Ohio and 7.9% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Ohio

Across the 16 areas of Ohio with data for this job, the median runs from $46,370 in Mansfield to $61,640 in Dayton-Kettering, a gap of $15,270 a year. Of the 10 areas in Ohio with more sales development representatives than the Southern Ohio nonmetro area, 9 pay less, the largest of them Cincinnati, OH-KY ($60,000), Columbus, OH ($59,390) and Cleveland, OH ($59,830).

the Southern Ohio nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Southern Ohio nonmetro area is #200 of 518 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Ohio, Kalamazoo-Portage and La Crosse-Onalaska pay just above the Southern Ohio nonmetro area and Provo-Orem and Watertown-Fort Drum just below. All four are within $180 a year of the median in the Southern Ohio nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many sales development representatives, two pay more.

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