Anniston-Oxford, AL Salaries

Local wages where BEA prices sit below the US average (RPP 85.9) - 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 Anniston-Oxford, AL moved from $39,610 in May 2024 to $42,680 in May 2025 (+7.8%).
  • Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
  • Anniston-Oxford, AL sits +4.6 pp ahead of that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.

BLS OEWS metro wage desk

MSA 11500 · Anniston-Oxford, AL $49K mean

MEAN-TRACE · RPP-QUIET · OCC-THIN · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-AHEAD · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST

  • MEAN-TRACE #491/528
  • RPP-QUIET 85.9
  • OCC-THIN 185 occs
  • TOP-LEAD Physicians, Al… · $149K
  • EMP-MIX General and…
  • TREND-AHEAD +4.6 pp
  • PHOTO-FINISH East Kentucky no…
  • BOOK-MOST 184 rows · May 2025

Read with East Kentucky nonmetropolitan area ($65 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 Anniston-Oxford, AL

Guayama, PR · lowest mean: $32KGuayama, PR · lowest mean$32KAnniston-Oxford, AL · this MSA: $49KAnniston-Oxford, AL · this M…$49KEast Kentucky nonmet… · near: $49KEast Kentucky nonmet… · near$49KUpper East Mississip… · near: $49KUpper East Mississip… · near$49KSoutheast Alabama no… · near: $49KSoutheast Alabama no… · near$49KFlorence-Muscle Shoa… · near: $49KFlorence-Muscle Shoa… · near$49KSan Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · highest mean: $119KSan Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · high…$119K
Read the chart as text
Label Value
Guayama, PR · lowest mean $32K
Anniston-Oxford, AL · this MSA $49K
East Kentucky nonmet… · near $49K
Upper East Mississip… · near $49K
Southeast Alabama no… · near $49K
Florence-Muscle Shoa… · near $49K
San Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · highest mean $119K

Where Anniston-Oxford, AL already employs the upper wage tier

General and Operations Managers and Business Operations Specialists, All Other lead published employment inside Anniston-Oxford, AL's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.

  1. 1. General and Operations Managers 550 jobs · $98,540
  2. 2. Business Operations Specialists, All Other 390 jobs · $84,640
  3. 3. Industrial Engineers 230 jobs · $85,200
  4. 4. Medical and Health Services Managers 160 jobs · $83,860
  5. 5. Pharmacists 100 jobs · $126,760
  6. 6. Nurse Practitioners 100 jobs · $101,220
  7. 7. Construction Managers 100 jobs · $84,120
  8. 8. Industrial Production Managers 90 jobs · $131,420
  9. 9. Software Developers 90 jobs · $99,260
  10. 10. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 80 jobs · $83,320
  11. 11. Financial Managers 70 jobs · $126,920
  12. 12. Sales Managers 70 jobs · $117,810
  13. 13. Management Analysts 70 jobs · $92,500
  14. 14. Physicians, All Other 60 jobs · $149,360
  15. 15. Lawyers 60 jobs · $113,210
  16. 16. Mechanical Engineers 60 jobs · $99,150
  17. 17. Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers 60 jobs · $98,840
  18. 18. Computer and Information Systems Managers 50 jobs · $111,170

Occupations Tracked

185

with wage data

Published-Row Mean

$48,946

employment-weighted, 184 complete rows

Top Salary

$149,360

Physicians, All Other

Cost of Living

85.9

14% below US avg

Price-level adjustment: Dividing the derived published-row mean of $48,946 by the metro RPP gives $56,948 on a national-price basis. This is not an after-tax income or a personal cost-of-living result.

Top-pay occupations in Anniston-Oxford, AL, 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 $98,540
2 Business Operations Specialists, All Other $84,640
3 Industrial Engineers $85,200
4 Medical and Health Services Managers $83,860
5 Pharmacists $126,760
6 Nurse Practitioners $101,220
7 Construction Managers $84,120
8 Industrial Production Managers $131,420
9 Software Developers $99,260
10 Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary $83,320
11 Financial Managers $126,920
12 Sales Managers $117,810
13 Management Analysts $92,500
14 Physicians, All Other $149,360
15 Lawyers $113,210
16 Mechanical Engineers $99,150
17 Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers $98,840
18 Computer and Information Systems Managers $111,170
19 Physical Therapists $98,520
20 Architectural and Engineering Managers $142,230
21 Electrical Engineers $102,450
22 Civil Engineers $97,290
23 First-Line Supervisors of Non-Retail Sales Workers $78,980
24 Physician Assistants $98,130
25 Education Administrators, All Other $85,480

Lowest Paying Jobs in Anniston-Oxford, AL

Other BLS Wage Areas in AL

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 AL. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($48,946 here) and summed published employment.

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 does the lower price level do to Anniston-Oxford, AL wage reading?
The employment-weighted published-row mean across 184 occupation rows is $48,946/year (BLS OEWS May 2025). BEA RPP 85.9 puts local prices 14% below the US average, so the same mean reads as $56,948 in national-price terms. Page lists 185 occupations with a published median — a different denominator. The top-tier median average of the 25 highest-paying rows is $103,615.
What is the highest paying job in Anniston-Oxford, AL?
The highest paying occupation in Anniston-Oxford, AL is Physicians, All Other with a median salary of $149,360/year. The second highest is Architectural and Engineering Managers at $142,230/year.
What jobs pay the least in Anniston-Oxford, AL?
The lowest paying occupation in Anniston-Oxford, AL is Bus Drivers, School with a median salary of $16,570/year according to BLS data.
Which federal tables feed Anniston-Oxford, AL's wage and price figures?
Occupation wages are BLS OEWS May 2025 estimates for this metropolitan statistical area. The price-level figure is BEA Regional Price Parities for the matching metro area (latest published year on the page). WageDex divides the employment-weighted published-row mean by RPP only when both inputs exist; it does not substitute a national RPP.

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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