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.
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.
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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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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.