Burlington-South Burlington, VT Salaries
Highest published occupation medians in Burlington-South Burlington, VT - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Burlington-South Burlington, VT moved from $57,920 in May 2024 to $60,020 in May 2025 (+3.6%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Burlington-South Burlington, VT sits +0.5 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.
Fast Food and Counter Workers shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Burlington-South Burlington, VT
Fast Food and Counter Workers publishes $37,190 here versus $31,200 nationally (+19.2%; 2,770metro-area jobs). Next is Cashiers at $36,880 locally versus $32,880 nationally (+12.2%).
- Fast Food and Counter Workers$37,190 in Burlington-South Burlington, VT sits 19.2% above the national Fast Food and Counter Workers median of $31,200 (2,770 published local jobs).
- Cashiers$36,880 in Burlington-South Burlington, VT sits 12.2% above the national Cashiers median of $32,880 (2,590 published local jobs).
- Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners$41,130 in Burlington-South Burlington, VT sits 11.6% above the national Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners median of $36,840 (2,190 published local jobs).
- General and Operations Managers$98,430 in Burlington-South Burlington, VT sits 6.9% below the national General and Operations Managers median of $105,770 (2,930 published local jobs).
Fast Food and Counter Workers and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Burlington-South Burlington, VT; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 15540 · Burlington-South Burlington, VT $72K mean
MEAN-MEGA · RPP-MID · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-FULL
- MEAN-MEGA #31/528
- RPP-MID 100.9
- OCC-MID 396 occs
- TOP-LEAD Physicians, Al… · $518K
- EMP-MIX Financial Ma…
- TREND-INLINE +0.5 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Manchester-Nashu…
- BOOK-FULL 382 rows · May 2025
Read with Manchester-Nashua, NH ($22 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 Burlington-South Burlington
Employment scale inside Burlington-South Burlington, VT's top-pay list
Financial Managers and Computer and Information Systems Managers lead published employment inside Burlington-South Burlington, VT's top-pay sample, order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Financial Managers 690 jobs · $134,650
- 2. Computer and Information Systems Managers 400 jobs · $162,070
- 3. Nurse Practitioners 260 jobs · $136,000
- 4. Pharmacists 250 jobs · $155,540
- 5. Physician Assistants 200 jobs · $163,560
- 6. Architectural and Engineering Managers 180 jobs · $171,070
- 7. Human Resources Managers 160 jobs · $138,920
- 8. Physicians, All Other 150 jobs · $517,900
- 9. General Internal Medicine Physicians 140 jobs · $216,300
- 10. Surgeons, All Other 120 jobs · $453,590
- 11. Public Relations Managers 120 jobs · $140,800
- 12. Chief Executives 100 jobs · $237,600
- 13. Family Medicine Physicians 90 jobs · $242,250
- 14. Pediatricians, General 90 jobs · $215,350
- 15. Dentists, General 90 jobs · $210,940
- 16. Obstetricians and Gynecologists 70 jobs · $444,290
- 17. Psychiatrists 50 jobs · $409,950
- 18. Art Directors 50 jobs · $153,890
Occupations Tracked
396
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$71,968
employment-weighted, 382 complete rows
Top Salary
$517,900
Physicians, All Other
Cost of Living
100.9
1% above US avg
Highest Paying Jobs in Burlington-South Burlington, VT
| # | Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Physicians, All Other | $517,900 |
| 2 | Surgeons, All Other | $453,590 |
| 3 | Emergency Medicine Physicians | $449,910 |
| 4 | Obstetricians and Gynecologists | $444,290 |
| 5 | Neurologists | $434,730 |
| 6 | Psychiatrists | $409,950 |
| 7 | Family Medicine Physicians | $242,250 |
| 8 | Chief Executives | $237,600 |
| 9 | General Internal Medicine Physicians | $216,300 |
| 10 | Pediatricians, General | $215,350 |
| 11 | Dentists, General | $210,940 |
| 12 | Architectural and Engineering Managers | $171,070 |
| 13 | Physician Assistants | $163,560 |
| 14 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $162,070 |
| 15 | Judges, Magistrate Judges, and Magistrates | $161,490 |
| 16 | Pharmacists | $155,540 |
| 17 | Art Directors | $153,890 |
| 18 | Optometrists | $143,700 |
| 19 | Public Relations Managers | $140,800 |
| 20 | Purchasing Managers | $139,780 |
| 21 | Human Resources Managers | $138,920 |
| 22 | Commercial Pilots | $137,810 |
| 23 | Nurse Practitioners | $136,000 |
| 24 | Financial Managers | $134,650 |
| 25 | Fundraising Managers | $133,560 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in Burlington-South Burlington, VT
Other BLS Wage Areas in VT
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 VT. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($71,968 here) and summed published employment.
Similar mean wage
Nearest other metros by employment-weighted published-row annual mean wage.
Similar employment scale
Nearest headcount peers (floor 100,000 summed published jobs), distinct from the mean-wage column.
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 Burlington-South Burlington, VT wage figures in a real decision
- Physicians, All Other leads published medians in Burlington-South Burlington, VT at $517,900/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Physicians, All Other
- The employment-weighted published-row mean of $71,968 adjusts to about $71,291 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 100.9. Salary vs cost of living
- Compare this metropolitan statistical area against the statewide occupation table for VT 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.