Alexandria, LA Salaries
Local wages where BEA prices sit below the US average (RPP 85.7) - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Alexandria, LA moved from $39,510 in May 2024 to $40,600 in May 2025 (+2.8%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Alexandria, LA sits -0.3 pp near that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
Home Health and Personal Care Aides shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Alexandria, LA
Home Health and Personal Care Aides publishes $22,590 here versus $35,800 nationally (-36.9%; 2,960metro-area jobs). Next is Registered Nurses at $81,680 locally versus $97,550 nationally (-16.3%).
- Home Health and Personal Care Aides$22,590 in Alexandria, LA sits 36.9% below the national Home Health and Personal Care Aides median of $35,800 (2,960 published local jobs).
- Registered Nurses$81,680 in Alexandria, LA sits 16.3% below the national Registered Nurses median of $97,550 (2,170 published local jobs).
- Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand$36,190 in Alexandria, LA sits 10.1% below the national Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand median of $40,240 (2,050 published local jobs).
Home Health and Personal Care Aides and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Alexandria, LA; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 10780 · Alexandria, LA $50K mean
MEAN-TRACE · RPP-QUIET · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST
- MEAN-TRACE #473/528
- RPP-QUIET 85.7
- OCC-MID 227 occs
- TOP-LEAD Physicians, Al… · $349K
- EMP-MIX General and…
- TREND-INLINE -0.3 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Central North Ca…
- BOOK-MOST 227 rows · May 2025
Read with Central North Carolina nonmetropolitan area (+$92 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 Alexandria, LA
Where Alexandria, LA already employs the upper wage tier
General and Operations Managers and Medical and Health Services Managers lead published employment inside Alexandria, LA's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. General and Operations Managers 1,040 jobs · $98,360
- 2. Medical and Health Services Managers 380 jobs · $102,550
- 3. Managers, All Other 350 jobs · $99,890
- 4. Nurse Practitioners 230 jobs · $123,080
- 5. Pharmacists 220 jobs · $134,340
- 6. Lawyers 200 jobs · $108,720
- 7. Financial Managers 170 jobs · $107,030
- 8. Physicians, All Other 160 jobs · $349,010
- 9. Physical Therapists 160 jobs · $103,380
- 10. Engineers, All Other 120 jobs · $95,000
- 11. Occupational Therapists 100 jobs · $98,490
- 12. Management Analysts 100 jobs · $91,560
- 13. Construction Managers 80 jobs · $98,410
- 14. Administrative Services Managers 80 jobs · $93,250
- 15. Natural Sciences Managers 70 jobs · $115,920
- 16. Civil Engineers 60 jobs · $92,290
- 17. Physician Assistants 50 jobs · $132,710
- 18. Chief Executives 50 jobs · $125,270
Occupations Tracked
227
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$50,343
employment-weighted, 227 complete rows
Top Salary
$349,010
Physicians, All Other
Cost of Living
85.7
14% below US avg
Top-pay occupations in Alexandria, LA, 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 | General and Operations Managers | $98,360 |
| 2 | Medical and Health Services Managers | $102,550 |
| 3 | Managers, All Other | $99,890 |
| 4 | Nurse Practitioners | $123,080 |
| 5 | Pharmacists | $134,340 |
| 6 | Lawyers | $108,720 |
| 7 | Financial Managers | $107,030 |
| 8 | Physicians, All Other | $349,010 |
| 9 | Physical Therapists | $103,380 |
| 10 | Engineers, All Other | $95,000 |
| 11 | Occupational Therapists | $98,490 |
| 12 | Management Analysts | $91,560 |
| 13 | Construction Managers | $98,410 |
| 14 | Administrative Services Managers | $93,250 |
| 15 | Natural Sciences Managers | $115,920 |
| 16 | Civil Engineers | $92,290 |
| 17 | Physician Assistants | $132,710 |
| 18 | Chief Executives | $125,270 |
| 19 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $121,750 |
| 20 | Industrial Production Managers | $112,060 |
| 21 | Software Developers | $95,510 |
| 22 | Power Plant Operators | $102,830 |
| 23 | Veterinarians | $104,580 |
| 24 | Human Resources Managers | $100,240 |
| 25 | First-Line Supervisors of Correctional Officers | $91,890 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in Alexandria, LA
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Waiters and Waitresses | $15,080 |
| Bartenders | $17,840 |
| Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary | $20,730 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $21,120 |
| Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria | $21,690 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $21,760 |
| Personal Care and Service Workers, All Other | $21,980 |
| Food Preparation Workers | $22,080 |
| Childcare Workers | $22,350 |
| Food Servers, Nonrestaurant | $22,410 |
Other BLS Wage Areas in LA
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 LA. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($50,343 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.