Project Coordinator Salary 2026,
What Project Coordinators Actually Earn

How much do project coordinators make in 2026?

Project coordinators are counted in the BLS project management specialists series: OEWS May 2025 gives SOC 13-1082 a national median of $102,320 a year ($49.19 an hour), with the bottom 10% near $61,580 and the top 10% at $167,970. That median should not be read as a coordinator's expectation. The series pools coordinators with project managers, senior project managers and programme managers across 1,066,670 workers, and coordinators sit at and below its P10 to P25 — the honest range for the role is the low end of this band, with the median describing managers a level or two above. The coordinator role is the entry point into project delivery: maintaining schedules and trackers, chasing actions and updates, coordinating meetings and documentation, managing risk and issue logs, and handling the administrative machinery that lets a project manager focus on decisions. It is a genuinely good route into project management, and it is also a role that can stall if it stays administrative. Coordinators who progress take ownership of something — a workstream, a reporting cadence, a supplier relationship — and start making decisions rather than recording them. Employment is projected to grow 5.6% through 2034 with roughly 78,200 openings a year. → Full project coordinator career guide, career path, credentials & placement →

Note: $102,320 blends every experience level and every setting in this occupation. For pay by level alone, see Pay by Level below.

Published (BLS): BLS OEWS May 2025, SOC 13-1082, United States national estimate. Public, methodologically rigorous, but sampled on a rolling 3-year basis and published ~10 months after collection — so it reflects wages that are already 1–2 years old by the time you read them.

Level and certification medians: distributed across the published BLS percentile range for this SOC code (P10 through P90) according to the credential tiers this occupation actually hires at. They are modeled reference points, not separately surveyed wages.

State and metro figures: modeled — the BLS national median multiplied by the GlobalCybers state wage index, and for metros by the published metro index for that state. They are estimates of local pay, not BLS state or metropolitan-area observations, and are labelled as modeled in the tables below.

No verified placement sample:GlobalCybers does not yet publish a placement median for this role, so no "verified" figure appears anywhere on this page.

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