Eligibility Specialist I

Coordinate and deliver a specific program area, supporting planning, outreach, and daily operations.

36 employees hold this title in Children and Families. Median total compensation for the role is $58,614, below the department median of $74,984.

Employees: 36
Total payroll: $2.2M
Role median: $58,614
Agency median: $74,984
Comparison: Below

What the records show

Role pay distribution

Pay distribution for this role

$54,038$73,278+

Hover a bar for its range; click to filter the list below.

How total compensation varies among the 36 people in this role. Even for one job title, pay differs with seniority, step, overtime, and tenure. Each bar is a pay range; the far-right bar collects the highest earners.

Compared with the local labor market

Eligibility Specialist I pay vs. Vermont

Across all employers in Vermont, the median wage for Eligibility Interviewers, Government Programs — about 310 people — is $58,530. Children and Families pays a median base salary of $69,014 for this role, 18% above that figure — about the 83rd percentile of local pay for the occupation.

Where Children and Families sits in the local pay range

10th

25th

Median

75th

90th

$48,440

$51,710

$58,530

$66,680

$70,800

Children and Families median · $69,014

The bar is the range of annual wages for Eligibility Interviewers, Government Programs across every employer in Vermont, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Children and Families’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.

And across the country

Nationwide, the median wage for Eligibility Interviewers, Government Programs — about 154,800 people — is $54,210. Children and Families’s median base salary is 27% above that national figure, about the 82nd percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.

10th

25th

Median

75th

90th

$38,900

$45,910

$54,210

$63,610

$74,690

Children and Families median · $69,014

Local and national wages differ for reasons beyond how well a job pays — cost of living, the mix of employers, and local demand for the occupation all move the Vermont range relative to the national one.

Median total compensation for this role at Children and Families is $69,014, 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.

Compare jurisdictions

Eligibility Specialist beyond Vermont

This role is reported in 5 jurisdictions. In Vermont, the median of $69,014 ranks #1 of 5. See Eligibility Specialist across all of Vermont →

Highest-paying jurisdictions for this role

Ramsey County, Minnesota

$52,121 · 287

New York City

$51,927 · 2,273

Maine

$47,603 · 596

Georgia

$37,799 · 2,891

Median total compensation for comparable Eligibility Specialistroles in other jurisdictions. Titles are matched by normalized name across sources, not identical job classification, and pay is not cost-of-living adjusted. Each bar links to that jurisdiction’s page for the role.

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