Auburn-Opelika, AL Salaries
Local wages where BEA prices sit below the US average (RPP 87.9) - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Auburn-Opelika, AL moved from $38,060 in May 2024 to $39,070 in May 2025 (+2.7%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Auburn-Opelika, AL sits -0.4 pp near that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Auburn-Opelika, AL
Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators publishes $34,530 here versus $44,650 nationally (-22.7%; 2,000metro-area jobs). Next is Fast Food and Counter Workers at $24,600 locally versus $31,200 nationally (-21.2%).
- Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators$34,530 in Auburn-Opelika, AL sits 22.7% below the national Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators median of $44,650 (2,000 published local jobs).
- Fast Food and Counter Workers$24,600 in Auburn-Opelika, AL sits 21.2% below the national Fast Food and Counter Workers median of $31,200 (2,370 published local jobs).
- Retail Salespersons$29,140 in Auburn-Opelika, AL sits 17.7% below the national Retail Salespersons median of $35,410 (2,300 published local jobs).
Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Auburn-Opelika, AL; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 12220 · Auburn-Opelika, AL $51K mean
MEAN-TRACE · RPP-QUIET · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST
- MEAN-TRACE #458/528
- RPP-QUIET 87.9
- OCC-MID 260 occs
- TOP-LEAD Physicians, Al… · $294K
- EMP-MIX General and…
- TREND-INLINE -0.4 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Middle Georgia n…
- BOOK-MOST 256 rows · May 2025
Read with Middle Georgia nonmetropolitan area (+$2 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 Auburn-Opelika, AL
Where Auburn-Opelika, AL already employs the upper wage tier
General and Operations Managers and Construction Managers lead published employment inside Auburn-Opelika, AL's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. General and Operations Managers 920 jobs · $103,380
- 2. Construction Managers 400 jobs · $100,140
- 3. Software Developers 290 jobs · $120,310
- 4. Medical and Health Services Managers 290 jobs · $100,850
- 5. Engineering Teachers, Postsecondary 260 jobs · $103,580
- 6. Pharmacists 210 jobs · $133,180
- 7. Physicians, All Other 180 jobs · $293,630
- 8. Computer and Information Systems Managers 180 jobs · $129,590
- 9. Financial Managers 180 jobs · $129,580
- 10. Nurse Practitioners 180 jobs · $108,500
- 11. Lawyers 120 jobs · $100,560
- 12. Industrial Production Managers 100 jobs · $110,980
- 13. Mechanical Engineers 100 jobs · $100,230
- 14. Sales Managers 90 jobs · $116,000
- 15. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 90 jobs · $99,870
- 16. Architectural and Engineering Managers 70 jobs · $144,800
- 17. Information Security Analysts 70 jobs · $120,950
- 18. Human Resources Managers 70 jobs · $108,590
Occupations Tracked
260
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$51,224
employment-weighted, 256 complete rows
Top Salary
$293,630
Physicians, All Other
Cost of Living
87.9
12% below US avg
Top-pay occupations in Auburn-Opelika, AL, by employment
Same top-pay sample as the salary ranking, sorted by published local jobs so the title sequence follows the OEWS mix.
Lowest Paying Jobs in Auburn-Opelika, AL
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $20,900 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $21,050 |
| Cooks, Short Order | $21,860 |
| Teaching Assistants, Postsecondary | $22,600 |
| Childcare Workers | $22,640 |
| Library Assistants, Clerical | $23,300 |
| Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary | $23,300 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $23,520 |
| Recreation Workers | $23,720 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $24,600 |
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 ($51,224 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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