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.
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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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.