Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA Salaries
Highest published occupation medians in Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA moved from $47,700 in May 2024 to $48,120 in May 2025 (+0.9%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA sits -2.2 pp behind that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
Based on wage level, year-over-year wage growth, and regional-price-parity-adjusted purchasing power from BLS and BEA sources, not job availability, industry mix, or day-to-day livability.
Fast Food and Counter Workers shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA
Fast Food and Counter Workers publishes $28,300 here versus $31,200 nationally (-9.3%; 2,230metro-area jobs). Next is Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators at $45,950 locally versus $44,650 nationally (+2.9%).
- Fast Food and Counter Workers$28,300 in Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA sits 9.3% below the national Fast Food and Counter Workers median of $31,200 (2,230 published local jobs).
- Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators$45,950 in Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA sits 2.9% above the national Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators median of $44,650 (2,450 published local jobs).
Fast Food and Counter Workers and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 13980 · Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA $57K mean
MEAN-LOW · RPP-LOW · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-BEHIND · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST
- MEAN-LOW #299/528
- RPP-LOW 92.7
- OCC-MID 257 occs
- TOP-LEAD Chief Executives · $208K
- EMP-MIX Software Dev…
- TREND-BEHIND -2.2 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Kankakee, IL
- BOOK-MOST 243 rows · May 2025
Read with Kankakee, IL ($8 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 Blacksburg-Christiansburg-R…
Employment scale inside Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA's top-pay list
Software Developers and Financial Managers lead published employment inside Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA's top-pay sample, order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Software Developers 590 jobs · $111,630
- 2. Financial Managers 210 jobs · $139,800
- 3. Medical and Health Services Managers 180 jobs · $106,640
- 4. Computer and Information Systems Managers 170 jobs · $157,250
- 5. Pharmacists 170 jobs · $131,740
- 6. Lawyers 130 jobs · $106,500
- 7. Managers, All Other 120 jobs · $131,230
- 8. Industrial Production Managers 110 jobs · $125,400
- 9. Nurse Practitioners 110 jobs · $124,800
- 10. Engineers, All Other 110 jobs · $108,810
- 11. Physicians, All Other 100 jobs · $207,770
- 12. Architectural and Engineering Managers 90 jobs · $137,870
- 13. Computer Occupations, All Other 90 jobs · $112,820
- 14. Sales Managers 80 jobs · $160,830
- 15. Information Security Analysts 80 jobs · $115,980
- 16. Fundraising Managers 70 jobs · $143,730
- 17. Human Resources Managers 70 jobs · $138,220
- 18. Physician Assistants 60 jobs · $125,050
Occupations Tracked
257
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$56,848
employment-weighted, 243 complete rows
Top Salary
$208,030
Chief Executives
Cost of Living
92.7
7% below US avg
Highest Paying Jobs in Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA
| # | Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chief Executives | $208,030 |
| 2 | Physicians, All Other | $207,770 |
| 3 | Sales Managers | $160,830 |
| 4 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $157,250 |
| 5 | Fundraising Managers | $143,730 |
| 6 | Financial Managers | $139,800 |
| 7 | Human Resources Managers | $138,220 |
| 8 | Architectural and Engineering Managers | $137,870 |
| 9 | Pharmacists | $131,740 |
| 10 | Managers, All Other | $131,230 |
| 11 | Dentists, General | $128,140 |
| 12 | Industrial Production Managers | $125,400 |
| 13 | Physician Assistants | $125,050 |
| 14 | Nurse Practitioners | $124,800 |
| 15 | Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products | $122,120 |
| 16 | Marketing Managers | $119,420 |
| 17 | Computer Network Architects | $117,030 |
| 18 | Information Security Analysts | $115,980 |
| 19 | Computer Occupations, All Other | $112,820 |
| 20 | Software Developers | $111,630 |
| 21 | Engineers, All Other | $108,810 |
| 22 | Public Relations Managers | $106,880 |
| 23 | Medical and Health Services Managers | $106,640 |
| 24 | Lawyers | $106,500 |
| 25 | Facilities Managers | $105,950 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Substitute Teachers, Short-Term | $27,720 |
| Animal Caretakers | $28,160 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $28,300 |
| Cashiers | $28,770 |
| Automotive and Watercraft Service Attendants | $29,080 |
| Childcare Workers | $29,090 |
| Dishwashers | $29,160 |
| Laundry and Dry-Cleaning Workers | $29,390 |
| Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners | $29,530 |
| Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and Cosmetologists | $29,700 |
Other BLS Wage Areas in VA
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 VA. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($56,848 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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How to use Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA wage figures in a real decision
- Chief Executives leads published medians in Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA at $208,030/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Chief Executives
- The employment-weighted published-row mean of $56,848 adjusts to about $61,318 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 92.7. Salary vs cost of living
- Compare this metropolitan statistical area against the statewide occupation table for VA before treating one geography as the other. State wage page
BLS OEWS estimates reflect the May 2025 reference period; small occupation-area cells can be suppressed, and figures are not employer offers.
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.