Brunswick-St. Simons, GA Salaries
Local wages where BEA prices sit below the US average (RPP 87.7) - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Brunswick-St. Simons, GA moved from $39,850 in May 2024 to $41,940 in May 2025 (+5.2%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Brunswick-St. Simons, GA sits +2.1 pp ahead of 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.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 15260 · Brunswick-St. Simons, GA $53K mean
MEAN-TRACE · RPP-QUIET · OCC-THIN · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-AHEAD · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST
- MEAN-TRACE #424/528
- RPP-QUIET 87.7
- OCC-THIN 199 occs
- TOP-LEAD Detectives and… · $158K
- EMP-MIX Compliance O…
- TREND-AHEAD +2.1 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Victoria, TX
- BOOK-MOST 198 rows · May 2025
Read with Victoria, TX ($10 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 Brunswick-St. Simons, GA
Where Brunswick-St. Simons, GA already employs the upper wage tier
Compliance Officers and Managers, All Other lead published employment inside Brunswick-St. Simons, GA's top-pay sample, order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Compliance Officers 670 jobs · $106,330
- 2. Managers, All Other 530 jobs · $122,930
- 3. Detectives and Criminal Investigators 240 jobs · $158,060
- 4. Lawyers 200 jobs · $125,480
- 5. Medical and Health Services Managers 140 jobs · $113,110
- 6. Financial Managers 110 jobs · $134,230
- 7. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 110 jobs · $110,850
- 8. Education Administrators, All Other 110 jobs · $108,890
- 9. Administrative Services Managers 110 jobs · $99,770
- 10. Pharmacists 100 jobs · $136,680
- 11. Physical Therapists 100 jobs · $103,260
- 12. Sales Managers 90 jobs · $116,980
- 13. Computer Occupations, All Other 90 jobs · $108,890
- 14. Nurse Practitioners 60 jobs · $120,510
- 15. Industrial Engineers 60 jobs · $107,740
- 16. Construction Managers 60 jobs · $105,820
- 17. Computer and Information Systems Managers 50 jobs · $156,230
- 18. Software Developers 50 jobs · $103,170
Occupations Tracked
199
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$52,860
employment-weighted, 198 complete rows
Top Salary
$158,060
Detectives and Criminal Investigators
Cost of Living
87.7
12% below US avg
Top-pay occupations in Brunswick-St. Simons, GA, 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 | Compliance Officers | $106,330 |
| 2 | Managers, All Other | $122,930 |
| 3 | Detectives and Criminal Investigators | $158,060 |
| 4 | Lawyers | $125,480 |
| 5 | Medical and Health Services Managers | $113,110 |
| 6 | Financial Managers | $134,230 |
| 7 | Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary | $110,850 |
| 8 | Education Administrators, All Other | $108,890 |
| 9 | Administrative Services Managers | $99,770 |
| 10 | Pharmacists | $136,680 |
| 11 | Physical Therapists | $103,260 |
| 12 | Sales Managers | $116,980 |
| 13 | Computer Occupations, All Other | $108,890 |
| 14 | Nurse Practitioners | $120,510 |
| 15 | Industrial Engineers | $107,740 |
| 16 | Construction Managers | $105,820 |
| 17 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $156,230 |
| 18 | Software Developers | $103,170 |
| 19 | Speech-Language Pathologists | $100,150 |
| 20 | Family Medicine Physicians | $149,990 |
| 21 | Industrial Production Managers | $127,520 |
| 22 | Facilities Managers | $101,540 |
| 23 | Architects, Except Landscape and Naval | $99,050 |
| 24 | Human Resources Managers | $137,350 |
| 25 | Occupational Therapists | $97,550 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in Brunswick-St. Simons, GA
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Waiters and Waitresses | $18,250 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $22,520 |
| Bartenders | $22,770 |
| Recreation Workers | $24,240 |
| Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service Workers | $24,880 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $25,850 |
| Exercise Trainers and Group Fitness Instructors | $26,400 |
| Personal Care and Service Workers, All Other | $26,710 |
| Cooks, Fast Food | $26,750 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $26,770 |
Other BLS Wage Areas in GA
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 GA. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($52,860 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 Brunswick-St. Simons, GA wage figures in a real decision
- Detectives and Criminal Investigators leads published medians in Brunswick-St. Simons, GA at $158,060/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Detectives and Criminal Investigators
- The employment-weighted published-row mean of $52,860 adjusts to about $60,268 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 87.7. Salary vs cost of living
- Compare this metropolitan statistical area against the statewide occupation table for GA 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.