Community Outreach Specialist

Across all employers in the Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN area, the median wage for Community Health Workers — about 270 people — is $56,180. Office of Resilience and Community Services pays a median base salary of $36,541 for this role, 35% below that figure — below the 10th percentile of local pay for the occupation.

Computed over the 4 of 5 people in this role paid at least $25,000in base salary. The rest are part-year or part-time records, whose actual pay isn’t comparable to a full-time annual wage.

Median total compensation for this role at Office of Resilience and Community Services is $34,478, which includes overtime and employer-paid benefits. The benchmark above excludes both, so total compensation is deliberately not compared against it.

Benchmark: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025). BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) covers all employers in the area — private, non-profit, and government alike — so this is a comparison against the whole local labor market for the occupation, not against private-sector pay. OEWS wages are straight-time pay and exclude overtime, shift differentials, and employer-paid benefits, so the government figure shown here is base pay on the same basis. Total compensation is not comparable to it. Job titles are matched to the closest standard occupation, so the comparison is between similar work rather than an identical job classification.

Community Outreach Specialist is held in 7 Louisville Metro, Kentucky departments. In Office of Resilience and Community Services, the median of $34,478 ranks #2 of 7.

This role is reported in 3 jurisdictions. In Louisville Metro, Kentucky, the median of $23,329 ranks #3 of 3. See Community Outreach Specialist across all of Louisville Metro, Kentucky →