Virtual receptionist in the Eastern Ohio nonmetro area: cost vs in-house

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

The middle half of virtual receptionists in the Eastern Ohio nonmetro area earns $29,400–$38,170. The top tenth earns $46,210 or more, 1.8 times the bottom tenth, close to the US pattern of 1.7 times. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is only $8,770 wide, against $9,610 across Ohio and $11,170 nationally: employers in the Eastern Ohio nonmetro area pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for a virtual receptionist here

Local pay is bunched just above the median: the 75th percentile is only $3,300 over it, while the 25th sits $5,470 below. Moving an offer from the median to the 75th percentile costs about $4,258 more a year with benefits. 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 median and the 75th percentile in the Eastern Ohio nonmetro area, and the Ohio statewide median of $35,920 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in the Eastern 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 $10,124 to the $34,870 median and brings it to $44,994 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 Eastern Ohio nonmetro area

Virtual receptionists have the lowest median of the 17 roles we track in the Eastern Ohio nonmetro area; project coordinators have the highest, at $82,950.

Measured against the US median, virtual receptionists rank #5 of the 17 roles we track in the Eastern Ohio nonmetro area (-8.3%), between payroll specialists (-8.1%) and customer support specialists (-8.4%). The typical role here is at -10.8%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Virtual receptionists hold 7.6% of the jobs in these 17 roles in the Eastern Ohio nonmetro area, 6.0% across Ohio and 5.7% nationally. The job is a bigger 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 $33,170 in Mansfield to $36,910 in Columbus, a gap of $3,740 a year. Of the 11 areas in Ohio with more virtual receptionists than the Eastern Ohio nonmetro area, 5 pay less, the largest of them the North Northeastern Ohio nonmetro area ($34,640), the West Northwestern Ohio nonmetro area ($34,670) and Canton-Massillon, OH ($34,640).

the Eastern Ohio nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Eastern Ohio nonmetro area is #226 of 521 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Ohio, Pocatello and Spartanburg pay just above the Eastern Ohio nonmetro area and State College and Niles just below. All four are within $50 a year of the median in the Eastern Ohio nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many virtual receptionists, all three pay more.

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