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Recruiting services in Fayetteville, NC

A full search for an employer hiring in Fayetteville, run end to end on your behalf and priced per search rather than as a percentage of salary. Across all six tiers the published range is $6,240 to $54,340, and the tier is set by the seniority of the role, never by what the role pays.

Permanent hires, any industry, anywhere in North Carolina. Searches typically fill in 23 to 35 days and run 30 to 50% below what a contingency recruiter charges for the same hire. Every placement carries a 45 day replacement guarantee at 50% off.

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Looking for a staffing agency in Fayetteville?

That search usually means one of two different things, and they are not interchangeable. Temporary staffing puts someone in a seat for a while on an agency payroll. A permanent search finds a person who joins your payroll and stays. If what you need is temporary cover, a staffing agency is the right call and this is not it.

For a permanent hire the real comparison is against a contingency recruiter. Contingency bills 20 to 30% of first year salary, several firms often work the same role at once, and nobody owns the outcome. A full search is one owner, a flat fee set by seniority, and a shortlist rather than a stream of forwarded resumes.

Fayetteville is covered the same way every other market is. Nothing about the fee moves with the city, so the figures below are here to price the role and read the market, not to change what the search costs.

Every role we search for in Fayetteville

Each one carries the wage band employers in this metro actually pay, what Fayetteville residents in that field earn, and what the search costs.

Architecture and engineering

Business and financial operations

Computer and mathematical

Legal

Management

Office and administrative support

Sales and related

What does an employer in Fayetteville actually pay?

Whatever the Fayetteville, NC area pays, because that is the level at which wages are published. The table below is place of work: it is what employers located in that metropolitan area report paying, not what anyone living in Fayetteville happens to take home.

What about management roles in Fayetteville?

6,390 Fayetteville residents work in management occupations and earn a median of $57,725. BLS publishes wages for 23 occupations in this group across the Fayetteville, NC area, topping out at $165,260 for natural sciences managers.

Place of work

What employers pay

Annual mean wage paid by employers in the Fayetteville, NC area. BLS OEWS, May 2025.
RoleAnnual mean
Natural Sciences Managers$170,760
Architectural and Engineering Managers$166,940
Computer and Information Systems Managers$158,310
Marketing Managers$156,940
Financial Managers$154,940
Purchasing Managers$144,660
Human Resources Managers$140,370
Managers, All Other$135,810

Showing the 8 highest-paid of 23 occupations in this group with a published figure for this area.

Place of residence

What Fayetteville residents earn

Fayetteville residents working in management occupations
6,390
Their median annual earnings
$57,725

Residents of Fayetteville working in this occupation group. Census ACS 5-year 2023, tables S2401 and B24011. This is where people live, not where they work, so it is not comparable to the wage figures beside it.

What about business and financial operations roles in Fayetteville?

2,406 Fayetteville residents work in business and financial operations occupations and earn a median of $56,916. BLS publishes wages for 21 occupations in this group across the Fayetteville, NC area, topping out at $103,110 for personal financial advisors.

Place of work

What employers pay

Annual mean wage paid by employers in the Fayetteville, NC area. BLS OEWS, May 2025.
RoleAnnual mean
Personal Financial Advisors$131,610
Management Analysts$106,420
Budget Analysts$100,260
Logisticians$97,660
Project Management Specialists$94,390
Business Operations Specialists, All Other$94,270
Financial Specialists, All Other$93,070
Financial and Investment Analysts$90,600

Showing the 8 highest-paid of 21 occupations in this group with a published figure for this area.

Place of residence

What Fayetteville residents earn

Fayetteville residents working in business and financial operations occupations
2,406
Their median annual earnings
$56,916

Residents of Fayetteville working in this occupation group. Census ACS 5-year 2023, tables S2401 and B24011. This is where people live, not where they work, so it is not comparable to the wage figures beside it.

What about computer and mathematical roles in Fayetteville?

2,008 Fayetteville residents work in computer and mathematical occupations and earn a median of $72,606, and the best paid of any group here. BLS publishes wages for 10 occupations in this group across the Fayetteville, NC area, topping out at $122,900 for software developers.

Place of work

What employers pay

Annual mean wage paid by employers in the Fayetteville, NC area. BLS OEWS, May 2025.
RoleAnnual mean
Software Developers$124,580
Information Security Analysts$112,310
Computer Network Architects$108,660
Data Scientists$105,350
Computer Systems Analysts$97,610
Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers$96,660
Computer Occupations, All Other$94,770
Network and Computer Systems Administrators$89,530

Showing the 8 highest-paid of 10 occupations in this group with a published figure for this area.

Place of residence

What Fayetteville residents earn

Fayetteville residents working in computer and mathematical occupations
2,008
Their median annual earnings
$72,606

Residents of Fayetteville working in this occupation group. Census ACS 5-year 2023, tables S2401 and B24011. This is where people live, not where they work, so it is not comparable to the wage figures beside it.

What about architecture and engineering roles in Fayetteville?

854 Fayetteville residents work in architecture and engineering occupations and earn a median of $63,176. BLS publishes wages for 10 occupations in this group across the Fayetteville, NC area, topping out at $125,980 for engineers, all other.

Place of work

What employers pay

Annual mean wage paid by employers in the Fayetteville, NC area. BLS OEWS, May 2025.
RoleAnnual mean
Engineers, All Other$126,460
Mechanical Engineers$107,330
Electrical Engineers$106,760
Industrial Engineers$100,930
Civil Engineers$100,170
Engineering Technologists and Technicians, Except Drafters, All Other$87,240
Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologists and Technicians$82,050
Civil Engineering Technologists and Technicians$58,900

Showing the 8 highest-paid of 10 occupations in this group with a published figure for this area.

Place of residence

What Fayetteville residents earn

Fayetteville residents working in architecture and engineering occupations
854
Their median annual earnings
$63,176

Residents of Fayetteville working in this occupation group. Census ACS 5-year 2023, tables S2401 and B24011. This is where people live, not where they work, so it is not comparable to the wage figures beside it.

What about legal roles in Fayetteville?

605 Fayetteville residents work in legal occupations and earn a median of $64,031. BLS publishes wages for 2 occupations in this group across the Fayetteville, NC area, topping out at $107,950 for lawyers.

Place of work

What employers pay

Annual mean wage paid by employers in the Fayetteville, NC area. BLS OEWS, May 2025.
RoleAnnual mean
Lawyers$130,510
Paralegals and Legal Assistants$57,500

Place of residence

What Fayetteville residents earn

Fayetteville residents working in legal occupations
605
Their median annual earnings
$64,031

Residents of Fayetteville working in this occupation group. Census ACS 5-year 2023, tables S2401 and B24011. This is where people live, not where they work, so it is not comparable to the wage figures beside it.

What about sales and related roles in Fayetteville?

7,804 Fayetteville residents work in sales and related occupations and earn a median of $32,105, the lowest paid of any group here. BLS publishes wages for 12 occupations in this group across the Fayetteville, NC area, topping out at $75,410 for first-line supervisors of non-retail sales workers.

Place of work

What employers pay

Annual mean wage paid by employers in the Fayetteville, NC area. BLS OEWS, May 2025.
RoleAnnual mean
First-Line Supervisors of Non-Retail Sales Workers$83,990
Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scientific Products$78,470
Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents$72,420
Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel$67,950
Insurance Sales Agents$64,870
Real Estate Sales Agents$62,550
First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers$51,550
Advertising Sales Agents$50,120

Showing the 8 highest-paid of 12 occupations in this group with a published figure for this area.

Place of residence

What Fayetteville residents earn

Fayetteville residents working in sales and related occupations
7,804
Their median annual earnings
$32,105

Residents of Fayetteville working in this occupation group. Census ACS 5-year 2023, tables S2401 and B24011. This is where people live, not where they work, so it is not comparable to the wage figures beside it.

What about office and administrative support roles in Fayetteville?

8,531 Fayetteville residents work in office and administrative support occupations and earn a median of $33,726, the largest group in the city. BLS publishes wages for 36 occupations in this group across the Fayetteville, NC area, topping out at $66,820 for executive secretaries and executive administrative assistants.

Place of work

What employers pay

Annual mean wage paid by employers in the Fayetteville, NC area. BLS OEWS, May 2025.
RoleAnnual mean
Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants$68,290
Postal Service Clerks$65,770
First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers$62,620
Postal Service Mail Carriers$62,040
Postal Service Mail Sorters, Processors, and Processing Machine Operators$56,870
Procurement Clerks$55,170
Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks$54,640
Office and Administrative Support Workers, All Other$53,470

Showing the 8 highest-paid of 36 occupations in this group with a published figure for this area.

Place of residence

What Fayetteville residents earn

Fayetteville residents working in office and administrative support occupations
8,531
Their median annual earnings
$33,726

Residents of Fayetteville working in this occupation group. Census ACS 5-year 2023, tables S2401 and B24011. This is where people live, not where they work, so it is not comparable to the wage figures beside it.

Why are the two numbers on this page so different?

They count different people. The wage figures count jobs sitting inside the Fayetteville, NC area, whoever fills them. The earnings figures count people who live in Fayetteville, wherever they commute to.

It runs the other way in management, where published wages in this metro run to a median of $109,870 but Fayetteville residents in that group report a median of $57,725. Employers here are drawing that talent from outside the city line.

Across the groups we cover, Fayetteville earnings run from $32,105 in sales and related to $72,606 in computer and mathematical, a spread of 2.3x. A band set from the wrong end of that range is the most common reason a search here stalls.

Fayetteville is the 6th largest of the 6 North Carolina cities we publish data for, at 209,120 people, in Cumberland County.

What does a search cost here?

The same as anywhere. Location does not move the fee and neither does salary. Tier is set by the seniority of the role, and across all six tiers the published range is $6,240 to $54,340 per search. For scale, the highest published median wage in this metro is $165,260 for natural sciences managers. A contingency firm hiring at that level would bill roughly $33,052 to $49,578 on the first year salary alone.

Price a Fayetteville search

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