Corvallis, OR Salaries
Highest published occupation medians in Corvallis, OR - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Corvallis, OR moved from $54,310 in May 2024 to $57,680 in May 2025 (+6.2%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Corvallis, OR sits +3.1 pp ahead of that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 18700 · Corvallis, OR $65K mean
MEAN-HIGH · RPP-MID · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-AHEAD · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST
- MEAN-HIGH #104/528
- RPP-MID 104.0
- OCC-MID 217 occs
- TOP-LEAD Family Medicin… · $232K
- EMP-MIX Software Dev…
- TREND-AHEAD +3.1 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Dayton-Kettering…
- BOOK-MOST 216 rows · May 2025
Read with Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH (+$53 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 Corvallis, OR
Employment scale inside Corvallis, OR's top-pay list
Software Developers and Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary lead published employment inside Corvallis, OR's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Software Developers 320 jobs · $125,650
- 2. Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary 170 jobs · $132,700
- 3. Computer and Information Systems Managers 160 jobs · $153,730
- 4. Financial Managers 150 jobs · $132,900
- 5. Architectural and Engineering Managers 120 jobs · $181,080
- 6. Medical and Health Services Managers 120 jobs · $147,620
- 7. Pharmacists 100 jobs · $170,470
- 8. Natural Sciences Managers 100 jobs · $144,470
- 9. Physician Assistants 80 jobs · $146,710
- 10. Human Resources Managers 70 jobs · $133,830
- 11. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 70 jobs · $127,470
- 12. Lawyers 70 jobs · $123,650
- 13. Dental Hygienists 70 jobs · $114,450
- 14. Data Scientists 60 jobs · $140,190
- 15. Nurse Practitioners 60 jobs · $136,650
- 16. Veterinarians 60 jobs · $119,020
- 17. Construction Managers 60 jobs · $116,330
- 18. Financial and Investment Analysts 50 jobs · $112,150
Occupations Tracked
217
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$65,294
employment-weighted, 216 complete rows
Top Salary
$232,010
Family Medicine Physicians
Cost of Living
104.0
4% above US avg
Highest Paying Jobs in Corvallis, OR
| # | Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Family Medicine Physicians | $232,010 |
| 2 | Dentists, General | $214,060 |
| 3 | Architectural and Engineering Managers | $181,080 |
| 4 | Pharmacists | $170,470 |
| 5 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $153,730 |
| 6 | Medical and Health Services Managers | $147,620 |
| 7 | Physician Assistants | $146,710 |
| 8 | Natural Sciences Managers | $144,470 |
| 9 | Sales Managers | $142,140 |
| 10 | Data Scientists | $140,190 |
| 11 | Nurse Practitioners | $136,650 |
| 12 | Computer Network Architects | $134,950 |
| 13 | Human Resources Managers | $133,830 |
| 14 | Financial Managers | $132,900 |
| 15 | Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary | $132,700 |
| 16 | Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary | $127,470 |
| 17 | Software Developers | $125,650 |
| 18 | Lawyers | $123,650 |
| 19 | First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives | $122,270 |
| 20 | Veterinarians | $119,020 |
| 21 | Construction Managers | $116,330 |
| 22 | Dental Hygienists | $114,450 |
| 23 | Computer Programmers | $113,950 |
| 24 | Financial and Investment Analysts | $112,150 |
| 25 | Industrial Production Managers | $110,460 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in Corvallis, OR
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Religious Workers, All Other | $30,310 |
| Packers and Packagers, Hand | $31,640 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $32,910 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $33,350 |
| Food Servers, Nonrestaurant | $33,560 |
| Physical Therapist Aides | $34,230 |
| Cleaners of Vehicles and Equipment | $34,490 |
| Cashiers | $34,740 |
| Hotel, Motel, and Resort Desk Clerks | $34,770 |
| Automotive and Watercraft Service Attendants | $34,940 |
Other BLS Wage Areas in OR
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 OR. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($65,294 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.