Albany, OR Salaries
Highest published occupation medians in Albany, OR - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Albany, OR moved from $48,010 in May 2024 to $49,700 in May 2025 (+3.5%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Albany, OR sits +0.4 pp near that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
Based on wage level, year-over-year wage growth, and regional-price-parity-adjusted purchasing power from BLS and BEA sources, not job availability, industry mix, or day-to-day livability.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 10540 · Albany, OR $60K mean
MEAN-MID · RPP-MID · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST
- MEAN-MID #200/528
- RPP-MID 102.1
- OCC-MID 240 occs
- TOP-LEAD Physicians, Al… · $330K
- EMP-MIX Registered N…
- TREND-INLINE +0.4 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Vineland, NJ
- BOOK-MOST 240 rows · May 2025
Read with Vineland, NJ ($4 on published-row mean) · Highest-paying careers
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, OR
Employment scale inside Albany, OR's top-pay list
Registered Nurses and Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary lead published employment inside Albany, OR's top-pay sample, order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Registered Nurses 580 jobs · $111,920
- 2. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 130 jobs · $125,910
- 3. Industrial Production Managers 120 jobs · $132,440
- 4. Construction Managers 120 jobs · $108,520
- 5. Financial Managers 100 jobs · $147,210
- 6. Software Developers 100 jobs · $122,030
- 7. Sales Managers 80 jobs · $128,720
- 8. Dental Hygienists 80 jobs · $111,380
- 9. Pharmacists 70 jobs · $158,000
- 10. Medical and Health Services Managers 70 jobs · $140,410
- 11. Dentists, General 50 jobs · $204,310
- 12. Lawyers 50 jobs · $162,880
- 13. Computer and Information Systems Managers 50 jobs · $151,310
- 14. Marketing Managers 50 jobs · $129,490
- 15. Computer Systems Analysts 50 jobs · $112,700
- 16. Facilities Managers 50 jobs · $109,220
- 17. Physical Therapists 50 jobs · $108,720
- 18. Architectural and Engineering Managers 40 jobs · $155,380
Occupations Tracked
240
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$59,889
employment-weighted, 240 complete rows
Top Salary
$329,720
Physicians, All Other
Cost of Living
102.1
2% above US avg
Highest Paying Jobs in Albany, OR
| # | Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Physicians, All Other | $329,720 |
| 2 | Dentists, General | $204,310 |
| 3 | Lawyers | $162,880 |
| 4 | Pharmacists | $158,000 |
| 5 | Architectural and Engineering Managers | $155,380 |
| 6 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $151,310 |
| 7 | Financial Managers | $147,210 |
| 8 | Nurse Practitioners | $143,510 |
| 9 | Physician Assistants | $142,220 |
| 10 | Human Resources Managers | $140,910 |
| 11 | Medical and Health Services Managers | $140,410 |
| 12 | Industrial Production Managers | $132,440 |
| 13 | Marketing Managers | $129,490 |
| 14 | Sales Managers | $128,720 |
| 15 | Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers | $128,690 |
| 16 | Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary | $125,910 |
| 17 | Engineers, All Other | $124,900 |
| 18 | Electrical Engineers | $122,840 |
| 19 | Software Developers | $122,030 |
| 20 | Computer Systems Analysts | $112,700 |
| 21 | Registered Nurses | $111,920 |
| 22 | Dental Hygienists | $111,380 |
| 23 | Facilities Managers | $109,220 |
| 24 | Physical Therapists | $108,720 |
| 25 | Construction Managers | $108,520 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in Albany, OR
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse | $31,490 |
| Automotive and Watercraft Service Attendants | $33,340 |
| Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service Workers | $33,410 |
| Driver/Sales Workers | $33,720 |
| Food Servers, Nonrestaurant | $33,790 |
| Dishwashers | $33,960 |
| Cashiers | $34,160 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $34,330 |
| Bartenders | $34,790 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $34,840 |
Other BLS Wage Areas in OR
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 OR. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($59,889 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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How to use Albany, OR wage figures in a real decision
- Physicians, All Other leads published medians in Albany, OR at $329,720/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Physicians, All Other
- The employment-weighted published-row mean of $59,889 adjusts to about $58,657 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 102.1. Salary vs cost of living
- Compare this metropolitan statistical area against the statewide occupation table for OR before treating one geography as the other. State wage page
BLS OEWS estimates reflect the May 2025 reference period; small occupation-area cells can be suppressed, and figures are not employer offers.
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.