Albany, GA Salaries
Local wages where BEA prices sit below the US average (RPP 87.7) - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Albany, GA moved from $40,590 in May 2024 to $43,620 in May 2025 (+7.5%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Albany, GA sits +4.4 pp ahead of that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 10500 · Albany, GA $52K mean
MEAN-TRACE · RPP-QUIET · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-AHEAD · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST
- MEAN-TRACE #440/528
- RPP-QUIET 87.7
- OCC-MID 240 occs
- TOP-LEAD Physicians, Al… · $347K
- EMP-MIX Software Dev…
- TREND-AHEAD +4.4 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Joplin, MO-KS
- BOOK-MOST 235 rows · May 2025
Read with Joplin, MO-KS ($29 on published-row mean) · Salary vs. cost of living
Instrument codes from this MSA’s OEWS published-row mean, BEA RPP, occupation book, employment lead, All Occupations pay change, and nearest peer — not a moving recommendation.
Published-row mean neighbourhood around Albany, GA
Where Albany, GA already employs the upper wage tier
Software Developers and Managers, All Other lead published employment inside Albany, GA's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Software Developers 290 jobs · $124,230
- 2. Managers, All Other 290 jobs · $113,330
- 3. Pharmacists 170 jobs · $130,700
- 4. Financial Managers 160 jobs · $126,720
- 5. Medical and Health Services Managers 150 jobs · $126,130
- 6. Nurse Practitioners 150 jobs · $118,370
- 7. Lawyers 150 jobs · $103,510
- 8. Sales Managers 140 jobs · $128,020
- 9. Computer and Information Systems Managers 110 jobs · $158,730
- 10. Administrative Services Managers 110 jobs · $100,940
- 11. Industrial Production Managers 80 jobs · $124,350
- 12. Physicians, All Other 70 jobs · $346,640
- 13. Industrial Engineers 70 jobs · $104,100
- 14. Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers 60 jobs · $107,230
- 15. General Internal Medicine Physicians 50 jobs · $223,400
- 16. Electrical Engineers 50 jobs · $115,210
- 17. Optometrists 40 jobs · $134,250
- 18. Human Resources Managers 40 jobs · $120,240
Occupations Tracked
240
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$52,017
employment-weighted, 235 complete rows
Top Salary
$346,640
Physicians, All Other
Cost of Living
87.7
12% below US avg
Top-pay occupations in Albany, GA, by employment
Same top-pay sample as the salary ranking, sorted by published local jobs so the title sequence follows the OEWS mix.
| # | Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Software Developers | $124,230 |
| 2 | Managers, All Other | $113,330 |
| 3 | Pharmacists | $130,700 |
| 4 | Financial Managers | $126,720 |
| 5 | Medical and Health Services Managers | $126,130 |
| 6 | Nurse Practitioners | $118,370 |
| 7 | Lawyers | $103,510 |
| 8 | Sales Managers | $128,020 |
| 9 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $158,730 |
| 10 | Administrative Services Managers | $100,940 |
| 11 | Industrial Production Managers | $124,350 |
| 12 | Physicians, All Other | $346,640 |
| 13 | Industrial Engineers | $104,100 |
| 14 | Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers | $107,230 |
| 15 | General Internal Medicine Physicians | $223,400 |
| 16 | Electrical Engineers | $115,210 |
| 17 | Optometrists | $134,250 |
| 18 | Human Resources Managers | $120,240 |
| 19 | Mechanical Engineers | $104,500 |
| 20 | Family Medicine Physicians | $215,750 |
| 21 | Dentists, General | $176,760 |
| 22 | Marketing Managers | $129,880 |
| 23 | Physician Assistants | $122,170 |
| 24 | Veterinarians | $121,900 |
| 25 | Education Administrators, All Other | $103,000 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in Albany, GA
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Waiters and Waitresses | $18,330 |
| Crossing Guards and Flaggers | $20,070 |
| Educational Instruction and Library Workers, All Other | $21,180 |
| Bartenders | $21,920 |
| Cooks, Fast Food | $22,550 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $22,830 |
| Childcare Workers | $23,080 |
| Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and Cosmetologists | $23,760 |
| Animal Caretakers | $23,860 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $23,970 |
Other BLS Wage Areas in GA
Other metropolitan or nonmetropolitan OEWS areas assigned to the same state. Cross-state pay and employment peers live in Nationwide similar metros below.
Nationwide metros with similar published-row mean pay or employment scale
Two OEWS peer sets outside GA. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($52,017 here) and summed published employment.
Similar mean wage
Nearest other metros by employment-weighted published-row annual mean wage.
Peers are nearest-neighbor matches on BLS OEWS employment-weighted published-row mean wage and summed occupation employment. Employment peers exclude metros already listed in the mean-wage column so the two link sets stay distinct. Mean wage here is not a worker-level median.
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Source data and WageDex calculations are identified in context on this page. Occupation rows use BLS OEWS May 2025. The metro benchmark is WageDex's employment-weighted mean of published occupation means; where BEA RPP is available, the price-level figure divides that benchmark by the published area parity. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.