Sales Development Representative salary in Topeka, KS

Pay in Topeka against Kansas and the US

The middle half of sales development representatives in Topeka earns $41,750–$99,720. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $120,840, only 3.4 times the bottom tenth, against 3.9 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. The mean ($73,490) is 16% 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 $57,970 wide, wider than in Kansas as a whole ($53,390) and the US ($52,810), so what a sales development representative earns in Topeka 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 $36,460 over the median, the 25th only $21,510 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $47,045 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 Topeka, and the Kansas statewide median of $62,580 falls between the 25th percentile and the median.

What a hire really costs in Topeka

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 $18,366 to the $63,260 median and brings it to $81,626 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 Topeka

Of the 17 roles we track in Topeka, this one ranks #6 by median pay, between executive assistants ($63,290) and office managers ($61,330). Project Coordinator is the highest at $100,000.

Measured against the US median, sales development representatives rank #10 of the 17 roles we track in Topeka (-9.6%), between accountants (-8.8%) and data entry specialists (-11.1%). The typical role here is at -8.8%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Sales development representatives hold 5.6% of the jobs in these 17 roles in Topeka, 7.9% across Kansas and 7.9% 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. All 2 areas in Kansas with more sales development representatives than Topeka pay less, among them Wichita, KS ($59,110) and the Kansas nonmetro area ($52,830).

Topeka against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Topeka is #177 of 518 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Kansas, Dallas-Fort Worth and Salt Lake City-Murray pay just above Topeka and Ames and South Bend-Mishawaka just below. All four are within $80 a year of the median in Topeka. Of the three markets with about as many sales development representatives, one pays more.

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