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.
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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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.