Amherst Town-Northampton, MA Salaries

Highest published occupation medians in Amherst Town-Northampton, MA - BLS OEWS May 2025

Observed metro pay change

What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025

May 2024 → May 2025
  • BLS's published All Occupations median in Amherst Town-Northampton, MA moved from $56,860 in May 2024 to $57,030 in May 2025 (+0.3%).
  • Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
  • Amherst Town-Northampton, MA sits -2.8 pp behind that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.

Home Health and Personal Care Aides shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Amherst Town-Northampton, MA

Home Health and Personal Care Aides publishes $41,700 here versus $35,800 nationally (+16.5%; 2,350metro-area jobs). Next is Fast Food and Counter Workers at $34,350 locally versus $31,200 nationally (+10.1%).

  1. Home Health and Personal Care Aides$41,700 in Amherst Town-Northampton, MA sits 16.5% above the national Home Health and Personal Care Aides median of $35,800 (2,350 published local jobs).
  2. Fast Food and Counter Workers$34,350 in Amherst Town-Northampton, MA sits 10.1% above the national Fast Food and Counter Workers median of $31,200 (2,080 published local jobs).

Home Health and Personal Care Aides and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Amherst Town-Northampton, MA; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.

BLS OEWS metro wage desk

MSA 11200 · Amherst Town-Northampton, MA $70K mean

MEAN-MEGA · RPP-MID · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-BEHIND · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST

  • MEAN-MEGA #50/528
  • RPP-MID 100.2
  • OCC-MID 283 occs
  • TOP-LEAD Physicians, Al… · $303K
  • EMP-MIX Financial Ma…
  • TREND-BEHIND -2.8 pp
  • PHOTO-FINISH Norwich-New Lond…
  • BOOK-MOST 271 rows · May 2025

Read with Norwich-New London-Willimantic, CT (+$7 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 Amherst Town-Northampton, MA

Guayama, PR · lowest mean: $32KGuayama, PR · lowest mean$32KRochester, MN · near: $69KRochester, MN · near$69KColorado Springs, CO · near: $69KColorado Springs, CO · near$69KAmherst Town-Northam… · this MSA: $70KAmherst Town-Northam… · this…$70KNorwich-New London-W… · near: $70KNorwich-New London-W… · near$70KCharlottesville, VA · near: $70KCharlottesville, VA · near$70KSan Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · highest mean: $119KSan Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · high…$119K
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Label Value
Guayama, PR · lowest mean $32K
Rochester, MN · near $69K
Colorado Springs, CO · near $69K
Amherst Town-Northam… · this MSA $70K
Norwich-New London-W… · near $70K
Charlottesville, VA · near $70K
San Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · highest mean $119K

Employment scale inside Amherst Town-Northampton, MA's top-pay list

Financial Managers and Computer and Information Systems Managers lead published employment inside Amherst Town-Northampton, MA's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.

  1. 1. Financial Managers 270 jobs · $144,950
  2. 2. Computer and Information Systems Managers 210 jobs · $156,040
  3. 3. Computer Science Teachers, Postsecondary 170 jobs · $139,390
  4. 4. Nurse Practitioners 170 jobs · $133,050
  5. 5. Managers, All Other 140 jobs · $140,970
  6. 6. Sales Managers 120 jobs · $138,100
  7. 7. Fundraising Managers 120 jobs · $136,890
  8. 8. Marketing Managers 110 jobs · $161,020
  9. 9. Economics Teachers, Postsecondary 110 jobs · $140,360
  10. 10. Pharmacists 90 jobs · $140,650
  11. 11. Physicians, All Other 70 jobs · $302,660
  12. 12. Natural Sciences Managers 70 jobs · $140,500
  13. 13. Veterinarians 60 jobs · $163,630
  14. 14. Physician Assistants 60 jobs · $134,860
  15. 15. Human Resources Managers 60 jobs · $132,280
  16. 16. Family Medicine Physicians 50 jobs · $226,710
  17. 17. Dentists, General 50 jobs · $202,240
  18. 18. Architectural and Engineering Managers 50 jobs · $169,330

Occupations Tracked

283

with wage data

Published-Row Mean

$69,522

employment-weighted, 271 complete rows

Top Salary

$302,660

Physicians, All Other

Cost of Living

100.2

0% above US avg

Price-level adjustment: Dividing the derived published-row mean of $69,522 by the metro RPP gives $69,353 on a national-price basis. This is not an after-tax income or a personal cost-of-living result.

Highest Paying Jobs in Amherst Town-Northampton, MA

# Occupation Median Salary
1 Physicians, All Other $302,660
2 Family Medicine Physicians $226,710
3 Dentists, General $202,240
4 Architectural and Engineering Managers $169,330
5 Veterinarians $163,630
6 Marketing Managers $161,020
7 Computer and Information Systems Managers $156,040
8 Optometrists $150,520
9 Personal Financial Advisors $145,190
10 Financial Managers $144,950
11 Managers, All Other $140,970
12 Pharmacists $140,650
13 Natural Sciences Managers $140,500
14 Economics Teachers, Postsecondary $140,360
15 Computer Science Teachers, Postsecondary $139,390
16 Sales Managers $138,100
17 Engineering Teachers, Postsecondary $137,090
18 Fundraising Managers $136,890
19 Physician Assistants $134,860
20 Atmospheric, Earth, Marine, and Space Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary $133,660
21 Anthropology and Archeology Teachers, Postsecondary $133,150
22 Nurse Practitioners $133,050
23 Public Relations Managers $132,990
24 Industrial Production Managers $132,930
25 Human Resources Managers $132,280

Lowest Paying Jobs in Amherst Town-Northampton, MA

Occupation Median Salary
Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop $34,250
Fast Food and Counter Workers $34,350
Food Servers, Nonrestaurant $34,830
Cashiers $35,130
Amusement and Recreation Attendants $35,130
Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers $35,260
Bartenders $35,300
Packers and Packagers, Hand $35,450
Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service Workers $35,860
School Bus Monitors $35,980

Other BLS Wage Areas in MA

Other metropolitan or nonmetropolitan OEWS areas assigned to the same state. Cross-state pay and employment peers live in Nationwide similar metros below.

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Nationwide metros with similar published-row mean pay or employment scale

Two OEWS peer sets outside MA. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($69,522 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the average salary in Amherst Town-Northampton, MA? ▼
Across the 271 occupation rows for Amherst Town-Northampton, MA with both a published mean wage and employment estimate, weighting each mean by employment gives $69,522/year (BLS OEWS May 2025). The page has 283 occupations with a published median, a different denominator. This WageDex-derived benchmark is not a BLS-published All Occupations metro mean or median and does not state what a typical local worker earns. For contrast, averaging the medians of only the 25 highest-paying occupations gives $154,766, which describes the displayed top tier only.
Which published medians lead Amherst Town-Northampton, MA? ▼
Physicians, All Other holds the highest published median in Amherst Town-Northampton, MA at $302,660/year (BLS OEWS May 2025). Next is Family Medicine Physicians at $226,710/year. These are occupation medians for this metropolitan statistical area, not employer offers.
What is the cost of living in Amherst Town-Northampton, MA? ▼
Amherst Town-Northampton, MA has a Regional Price Parity of 100.2, meaning prices are 0% above the national average. Dividing the derived published-row mean of $69,522 by the RPP gives a national-price-equivalent benchmark of $69,353.
Where does BLS salary data for Amherst Town-Northampton, MA come from? ▼
All salary figures are Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS May 2025 estimates for this metropolitan statistical area. OEWS surveys approximately 1.1 million business establishments. Medians and means on this page are the published occupation-level estimates for the area — not job-board scrapes or modeled employer offers.

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Last updated: May 2025 (BLS OEWS annual release). Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS May 2025. Cost-of-living index: BEA Regional Price Parities, 2024.

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.

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