Virtual receptionist in Nashville-Murfreesboro, TN: cost vs in-house

Pay in Nashville-Murfreesboro against Tennessee and the US

Virtual receptionists at the 90th percentile earn $46,990, 1.7 times the 10th percentile; the US ratio is 1.7. The middle half of virtual receptionists in Nashville-Murfreesboro earns $31,570–$43,580. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is $12,010 wide, wider than in Tennessee as a whole ($10,460) and the US ($11,170), so what a virtual receptionist earns in Nashville-Murfreesboro depends more on the employer.

What to budget for a virtual receptionist here

An offer at the 75th percentile instead of the median adds $6,770 a year in pay and about $8,735 in employer cost. Going down to the 25th percentile saves $5,240 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 $38,010 falls between the median and the 75th percentile in Nashville-Murfreesboro, and the Tennessee statewide median of $34,910 falls between the 25th percentile and the median.

What a hire really costs in Nashville-Murfreesboro

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 $10,687 to the $36,810 median and brings it to $47,497 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 Nashville-Murfreesboro

Virtual receptionists have the lowest median of the 17 roles we track in Nashville-Murfreesboro; project coordinators have the highest, at $85,990.

Measured against the US median, virtual receptionists rank #8 of the 17 roles we track in Nashville-Murfreesboro (-3.2%), between marketing specialists (-1.9%) and paralegals (-3.3%). The typical role here is at -3.3%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Virtual receptionists hold 3.0% of the jobs in these 17 roles in Nashville-Murfreesboro, 3.2% across Tennessee and 5.7% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Tennessee

Across the 14 areas of Tennessee with data for this job, the median runs from $29,760 in the North Central Tennessee nonmetro area to $36,810 in Nashville-Murfreesboro, a gap of $7,050 a year. No other area in Tennessee has as many virtual receptionists, and all 13 others pay less.

Nashville-Murfreesboro against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Nashville-Murfreesboro is #42 of 521 US areas for this job. It is one of the larger markets for this job, with pay near the middle of the US range. Outside Tennessee, Kalamazoo-Portage and Cape Coral-Fort Myers pay just above Nashville-Murfreesboro and Ogden and Utica-Rome just below. All four are within $0 a year of the median in Nashville-Murfreesboro. Of the three markets with about as many virtual receptionists, two pay more.

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