Virtual receptionist in the Alaska nonmetro area: cost vs in-house

Pay in the Alaska nonmetro area against Alaska and the US

Virtual receptionists at the 90th percentile earn $59,270, 1.6 times the 10th percentile; the US ratio is 1.7. The middle half of virtual receptionists in the Alaska nonmetro area earns $38,200–$50,070. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is $11,870 wide, wider than in Alaska as a whole ($11,700) and the US ($11,170), so what a virtual receptionist earns in the Alaska nonmetro area depends more on the employer.

What to budget for a virtual receptionist here

The step from the 25th percentile to the median is $6,770 a year; from the median to the 75th it is $5,100, or about $6,581 once benefits are added. 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 $38,010 falls between the 10th and 25th percentiles in the Alaska nonmetro area, and the Alaska statewide median of $44,720 falls between the 25th percentile and the median. An offer at the national rate would be lower than what three quarters of local virtual receptionists earn.

What a hire really costs in the Alaska 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 $13,056 to the $44,970 median and brings it to $58,026 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 Alaska nonmetro area

Of the 16 roles we track in the Alaska nonmetro area, this one ranks #15 by median pay, between customer support specialists ($47,630) and data entry specialists ($42,860). Project Coordinator is the highest at $98,020.

Measured against the US median, this job is the best paid of the 16 roles we track in the Alaska nonmetro area (+18.3%); marketing specialists come last (-15.3%). The typical role here is at +3.8%, so, measured against the US, virtual receptionists cost more in the Alaska nonmetro area than the area's general pay level would suggest. Virtual receptionists hold 4.6% of the jobs in these 16 roles in the Alaska nonmetro area, 4.8% across Alaska and 5.8% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Alaska

Across the 3 areas of Alaska with data for this job, the median runs from $44,630 in Anchorage to $47,260 in Fairbanks-College, a gap of $2,630 a year. The one area in Alaska with more virtual receptionists, Anchorage, AK ($44,630), pays less: a bigger pool at a lower median.

the Alaska nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Alaska nonmetro area is #326 of 521 US areas for this job. It is a mid-sized market, and its pay is in the top quarter of US areas. Outside Alaska, Santa Cruz-Watsonville and Mount Vernon-Anacortes pay just above the Alaska nonmetro area and San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles and Portland-South Portland just below. All four are within $200 a year of the median in the Alaska nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many virtual receptionists, none pays as much.

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