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

May 2024 → May 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.

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

Guayama, PR · lowest mean: $32KGuayama, PR · lowest mean$32KBrunswick-St. Simons… · this MSA: $53KBrunswick-St. Simons… · this…$53KVictoria, TX · near: $53KVictoria, TX · near$53KBowling Green, KY · near: $53KBowling Green, KY · near$53KLubbock, TX · near: $53KLubbock, TX · near$53KJackson, TN · near: $53KJackson, TN · near$53KSan Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · highest mean: $119KSan Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · high…$119K
Read the chart as text
Label Value
Guayama, PR · lowest mean $32K
Brunswick-St. Simons… · this MSA $53K
Victoria, TX · near $53K
Bowling Green, KY · near $53K
Lubbock, TX · near $53K
Jackson, TN · near $53K
San Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · highest mean $119K

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. 1. Compliance Officers 670 jobs · $106,330
  2. 2. Managers, All Other 530 jobs · $122,930
  3. 3. Detectives and Criminal Investigators 240 jobs · $158,060
  4. 4. Lawyers 200 jobs · $125,480
  5. 5. Medical and Health Services Managers 140 jobs · $113,110
  6. 6. Financial Managers 110 jobs · $134,230
  7. 7. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 110 jobs · $110,850
  8. 8. Education Administrators, All Other 110 jobs · $108,890
  9. 9. Administrative Services Managers 110 jobs · $99,770
  10. 10. Pharmacists 100 jobs · $136,680
  11. 11. Physical Therapists 100 jobs · $103,260
  12. 12. Sales Managers 90 jobs · $116,980
  13. 13. Computer Occupations, All Other 90 jobs · $108,890
  14. 14. Nurse Practitioners 60 jobs · $120,510
  15. 15. Industrial Engineers 60 jobs · $107,740
  16. 16. Construction Managers 60 jobs · $105,820
  17. 17. Computer and Information Systems Managers 50 jobs · $156,230
  18. 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

Price-level adjustment: Dividing the derived published-row mean of $52,860 by the metro RPP gives $60,268 on a national-price basis. This is not an after-tax income or a personal cost-of-living result.

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

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does the lower price level do to Brunswick-St. Simons, GA wage reading?
The employment-weighted published-row mean across 198 occupation rows is $52,860/year (BLS OEWS May 2025). BEA RPP 87.7 puts local prices 12% below the US average, so the same mean reads as $60,268 in national-price terms. Page lists 199 occupations with a published median — a different denominator. The top-tier median average of the 25 highest-paying rows is $118,083.
What is the highest paying job in Brunswick-St. Simons, GA?
The highest paying occupation in Brunswick-St. Simons, GA is Detectives and Criminal Investigators with a median salary of $158,060/year. The second highest is Computer and Information Systems Managers at $156,230/year.
What jobs pay the least in Brunswick-St. Simons, GA?
The lowest paying occupation in Brunswick-St. Simons, GA is Waiters and Waitresses with a median salary of $18,250/year according to BLS data.
Which federal tables feed Brunswick-St. Simons, GA's wage and price figures?
Occupation wages are BLS OEWS May 2025 estimates for this metropolitan statistical area. The price-level figure is BEA Regional Price Parities for the matching metro area (latest published year on the page). WageDex divides the employment-weighted published-row mean by RPP only when both inputs exist; it does not substitute a national RPP.

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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