Compensation and Benefits Managers · SOC 11-3111

Compensation and Benefits Managers Salary in the Greenville Metro Area

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC metro area

Figures describe the Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC metropolitan statistical area as defined by BLS/OMB — the whole multi-county metro region, not Greenville city limits.

Median annual wage$125,750
Median hourly wage$60.46

Compensation and Benefits Managers in the Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC metro area earned a median of $125,750 per year ($60.46 per hour) as of the May 2025 BLS OEWS estimates. Pay ranged from $81,950 at the 10th percentile to $216,770 at the 90th. BLS estimates 60 people work in this occupation in the area.

Pay distribution

Half of Compensation and Benefits Managers in the Greenville metro area earn more than $125,750 per year, half earn less; the middle half earn between $83,810 and $170,160.

Wage percentiles (BLS OEWS)
Wage10th25thMedian75th90th
Annual$81,950$83,810$125,750$170,160$216,770
Hourly$39.40$40.29$60.46$81.81$104.21

A percentile is a cut point: 25% of workers in this occupation and area earn less than the 25th-percentile wage. The median is the 50th percentile — half earn less, half earn more.

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How this area compares

  • Greenville metro areathis metro area
    $125,750 median for Greenville metro area; middle half earns $83,810 to $170,160
  • South Carolinastate (SC)
    $99,630 median for South Carolina; middle half earns $75,080 to $158,000
  • $149,230 median for United States; middle half earns $113,170 to $200,610

Bars span the 25th–75th percentile (the middle half of workers); the tick marks the median.

The median here is +26% vs South Carolina overall and −16% vs the U.S. median for this occupation.

Compare with other areas

Where this metro sits nationally

$73,870$123,180$172,490$221,800Columbia, SC — $73,870Boise City, ID — $85,270Baton Rouge, LA — $94,890Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR — $98,390Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL — $104,770Durham-Chapel Hill, NC — $105,310Tallahassee, FL — $105,490Oklahoma City, OK — $107,780Urban Honolulu, HI — $110,120St. Louis, MO-IL — $110,470Toledo, OH — $110,870Tulsa, OK — $113,990Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN — $114,410Reno, NV — $115,180Kansas City, MO-KS — $115,200Jackson, MS — $115,540Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL — $119,490Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV — $119,970El Paso, TX — $120,830Omaha, NE-IA — $122,070San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX — $122,630Jacksonville, FL — $123,150North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL — $123,460Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN — $123,540Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL — $124,430Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC — $125,340Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC — $125,750Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL — $126,080New Haven, CT — $126,550Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL — $126,910Madison, WI — $127,670Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN — $127,730Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI — $127,920Winston-Salem, NC — $129,580Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD — $129,800Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ — $130,010Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL — $130,220Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC — $131,140Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL — $131,450Raleigh-Cary, NC — $131,510Greensboro-High Point, NC — $131,930Provo-Orem-Lehi, UT — $132,210Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA — $132,540Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA — $132,700Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ — $132,970Memphis, TN-MS-AR — $133,150Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN — $136,220Tucson, AZ — $138,560Rochester, NY — $139,380Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY — $140,870Salt Lake City-Murray, UT — $140,940Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA — $142,950Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY — $144,510Pittsburgh, PA — $145,340Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX — $145,930Columbus, OH — $147,100Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD — $148,520Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX — $148,650Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX — $148,870Charleston-North Charleston, SC — $150,810Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA — $150,850Manchester-Nashua, NH — $151,120Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI — $151,860Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN — $155,340Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA — $155,380Birmingham, AL — $156,710Richmond, VA — $157,370Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA — $159,450San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA — $160,970Worcester, MA — $160,990Providence-Warwick, RI-MA — $162,440Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT — $162,480Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI — $162,490Ann Arbor, MI — $162,720Salem, OR — $163,270Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI — $163,390Cleveland, OH — $163,500Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA — $166,100Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC — $167,450Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA — $168,540Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO — $168,850Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV — $171,950New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ — $179,730Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH — $185,590Trenton-Princeton, NJ — $186,700San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA — $188,850San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA — $215,180Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA — $216,580Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT — $218,860Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR — $221,800

Each dot is one metro area with a published median — hover any dot for the name and figure. Metros without published estimates are not drawn.

The Greenville metro area has the 64th-highest published median for this occupation among the 90 metro areas where BLS publishes it. Higher medians often track higher living costs — this is a pay comparison, not a ranking of where the job is “best”.

Other metro areas in South Carolina

Metro areas in the same state with published May 2025 medians for compensation and benefits managers, highest first. Areas without published estimates are not listed.

  • Greenville metro areathis page
    $125,750 median for Greenville metro area; middle half earns $83,810 to $170,160
  • $150,810 median for Charleston metro area; middle half earns $103,670 to $192,340
  • $73,870 median for Columbia metro area; middle half earns $61,870 to $94,120

Bars span the 25th–75th percentile (the middle half of workers); the tick marks the median.

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About this estimate

These figures are survey estimates from the BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program — modeled from employer reports collected over three years and benchmarked to May 2025. They describe what employers in this area currently pay across all industries, not what any individual worker will be offered.

Employment counts wage-and-salary jobs in the occupation (self-employed workers are excluded). Estimates carry sampling error; percentile wages are rounded by BLS. Some values are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality or quality — suppressed values appear here as “not published”, never as zero. Read the full methodology.

About this data. Estimates are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program, May 2025 release, retrieved from bls.gov/oes/tables.htm on July 24, 2026. OEWS estimates describe metropolitan/nonmetropolitan areas and states — not city limits — and are not designed for year-over-year comparisons. See BLS methodology, our plain-English methodology, and sources. CitySalaryData is independent and not affiliated with BLS.