Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ Salaries

Highest published occupation medians in Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ - 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 Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ moved from $46,290 in May 2024 to $47,520 in May 2025 (+2.7%).
  • Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
  • Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ sits -0.4 pp near that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.

Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ

Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners publishes $40,690 here versus $35,510 nationally (+14.6%; 2,730metro-area jobs). Next is First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers at $48,360 locally versus $44,080 nationally (+9.7%).

  1. Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners$40,690 in Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ sits 14.6% above the national Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners median of $35,510 (2,730 published local jobs).
  2. First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$48,360 in Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ sits 9.7% above the national First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers median of $44,080 (2,080 published local jobs).
  3. Waiters and Waitresses$38,160 in Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ sits 8.3% above the national Waiters and Waitresses median of $35,230 (6,070 published local jobs).
  4. Cooks, Restaurant$40,250 in Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ sits 7.6% above the national Cooks, Restaurant median of $37,390 (3,370 published local jobs).

Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.

BLS OEWS metro wage desk

MSA 12100 · Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ $62K mean

MEAN-MID · RPP-MID · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-FULL

  • MEAN-MID #148/528
  • RPP-MID 98.9
  • OCC-MID 376 occs
  • TOP-LEAD Family Medicin… · $394K
  • EMP-MIX Computer and…
  • TREND-INLINE -0.4 pp
  • PHOTO-FINISH Tucson, AZ
  • BOOK-FULL 367 rows · May 2025

Read with Tucson, AZ ($18 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 Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ

Guayama, PR · lowest mean: $32KGuayama, PR · lowest mean$32KAtlantic City-Hammon… · this MSA: $62KAtlantic City-Hammon… · this…$62KTucson, AZ · near: $62KTucson, AZ · near$62KMidland, MI · near: $62KMidland, MI · near$62KHawaii / Kauai nonme… · near: $62KHawaii / Kauai nonme… · near$62KCrestview-Fort Walto… · near: $62KCrestview-Fort Walto… · near$62KSan Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · highest mean: $119KSan Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · high…$119K
Read the chart as text
Label Value
Guayama, PR · lowest mean $32K
Atlantic City-Hammon… · this MSA $62K
Tucson, AZ · near $62K
Midland, MI · near $62K
Hawaii / Kauai nonme… · near $62K
Crestview-Fort Walto… · near $62K
San Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · highest mean $119K

Employment scale inside Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ's top-pay list

Computer and Information Systems Managers and Financial Managers lead published employment inside Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.

  1. 1. Computer and Information Systems Managers 700 jobs · $166,660
  2. 2. Financial Managers 510 jobs · $157,800
  3. 3. Nurse Practitioners 430 jobs · $143,330
  4. 4. Pharmacists 370 jobs · $134,890
  5. 5. Physicians, All Other 350 jobs · $252,370
  6. 6. Sales Managers 330 jobs · $144,220
  7. 7. Computer and Information Research Scientists 290 jobs · $140,190
  8. 8. Family Medicine Physicians 250 jobs · $393,890
  9. 9. Engineers, All Other 230 jobs · $151,760
  10. 10. Marketing Managers 210 jobs · $143,200
  11. 11. Architectural and Engineering Managers 180 jobs · $167,980
  12. 12. Physician Assistants 150 jobs · $153,280
  13. 13. Nurse Anesthetists 140 jobs · $294,910
  14. 14. Human Resources Managers 120 jobs · $148,740
  15. 15. Dentists, General 100 jobs · $170,760
  16. 16. Purchasing Managers 80 jobs · $161,620
  17. 17. Education Administrators, Postsecondary 80 jobs · $141,310
  18. 18. Psychiatrists 60 jobs · $328,600

Occupations Tracked

376

with wage data

Published-Row Mean

$62,324

employment-weighted, 367 complete rows

Top Salary

$393,890

Family Medicine Physicians

Cost of Living

98.9

1% below US avg

Price-level adjustment: Dividing the derived published-row mean of $62,324 by the metro RPP gives $63,045 on a national-price basis. This is not an after-tax income or a personal cost-of-living result.

Highest Paying Jobs in Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ

# Occupation Median Salary
1 Family Medicine Physicians $393,890
2 Psychiatrists $328,600
3 Nurse Anesthetists $294,910
4 Chief Executives $276,970
5 Physicians, All Other $252,370
6 Pediatricians, General $208,430
7 Judges, Magistrate Judges, and Magistrates $204,160
8 Natural Sciences Managers $172,540
9 Dentists, General $170,760
10 Architectural and Engineering Managers $167,980
11 Computer and Information Systems Managers $166,660
12 Veterinarians $164,620
13 Purchasing Managers $161,620
14 Financial Managers $157,800
15 Physician Assistants $153,280
16 Public Relations Managers $153,140
17 Engineers, All Other $151,760
18 Human Resources Managers $148,740
19 Sales Managers $144,220
20 Nurse Practitioners $143,330
21 Marketing Managers $143,200
22 Education Administrators, Postsecondary $141,310
23 Computer and Information Research Scientists $140,190
24 Aerospace Engineers $136,590
25 Pharmacists $134,890

Lowest Paying Jobs in Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ

Other BLS Wage Areas in NJ

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 NJ. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($62,324 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 is the average salary in Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ?
Across the 367 occupation rows for Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ with both a published mean wage and employment estimate, weighting each mean by employment gives $62,324/year (BLS OEWS May 2025). The page has 376 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 $188,478, which describes the displayed top tier only.
Which published medians lead Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ?
Family Medicine Physicians holds the highest published median in Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ at $393,890/year (BLS OEWS May 2025). Next is Psychiatrists at $328,600/year. These are occupation medians for this metropolitan statistical area, not employer offers.
What is the cost of living in Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ?
Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ has a Regional Price Parity of 98.9, meaning prices are 1% below the national average. Dividing the derived published-row mean of $62,324 by the RPP gives a national-price-equivalent benchmark of $63,045.
Where does BLS salary data for Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ 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.

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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