Vermont / Human Resources / HR Business Partner III
Job-title file
Carry out the duties of this position in support of the agency's public mission.
15 employees hold this title in Human Resources. Median total compensation for the role is $77,022, below the department median of $79,602.
What the records show
How total compensation varies among the 15 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
Across all employers in Vermont, the median wage for Human Resources Specialists — about 1,270 people — is $77,800. Human Resources pays a median base salary of $76,003 for this role, 2% below that figure — about the 47th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Human Resources Specialists across every employer in Vermont, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Human Resources’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Human Resources Specialists — about 912,430 people — is $75,940. Human Resources’s median base salary is in line withthat national figure, about the 50th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.
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 Human Resources is $76,003, 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
This role is reported in 7 jurisdictions. In Vermont, the median of $76,003 ranks #5 of 7. See HR Business Partner across all of Vermont →
Median total compensation for comparable HR Business Partnerroles 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.
Record list
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HR Business Partner III/Human Resources
Kristie Salyer is a HR Business Partner III at Human Resources. They work classified. 2026 total compensation came to $92,435.
HR Business Partner III/Human Resources
Tonya Goodell holds the role of HR Business Partner III at Human Resources. Their status is classified. In 2026, their total compensation was $90,022.