Spotlight for Recruiting Professionals
With an annual average salary of nearly $110,000, directors are the highest paid core position involved in college recruiting at employer organizations, according to NACE’s 2017 Recruiting Compensation Benchmark Report.
The average annual salary for directors is $108,334. (See Figure 1.) On average, the most recent annual salary increase for a director of college recruiting was 4.7 percent
Following the salary for directors are those for managers, whose current average annual salary is $90,034; their most recent annual salary increase came in at 4.6 percent.
Meanwhile, recruiters’ average salary for 2017 is $69,603; their most recent annual salary increase was 4.0 percent. And the annual salary for coordinators is $48,901, with a salary increase that was 3.2 percent.
Data collection for NACE’s 2017 Recruiting Compensation Benchmark Report took place from July 19, 2017, to August 1, 2017; 142 firms participated for a response rate of 13.4 percent. The 2017 Recruiting Compensation Benchmark Report will be available later this fall.
Figure 1: Average salaries by position
| Position |
2017 Average Salary |
2017 Median Salary |
| Director |
$108,334 |
$101,000 |
| Manager |
$90,034 |
$89,067 |
| Recruiter |
$69,603 |
$66,107 |
| Coordinator |
$48,901 |
$50,000 |
Source: 2017 Recruiting Compensation Benchmark Report, National Association of Colleges and Employers