Dalton, GA Salaries
Local wages where BEA prices sit below the US average (RPP 89.8) - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Dalton, GA moved from $40,820 in May 2024 to $42,210 in May 2025 (+3.4%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Dalton, GA sits +0.3 pp near that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Dalton, GA
Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators publishes $37,930 here versus $46,420 nationally (-18.3%; 2,000metro-area jobs). Next is Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand at $37,040 locally versus $40,240 nationally (-8.0%).
- Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators$37,930 in Dalton, GA sits 18.3% below the national Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators median of $46,420 (2,000 published local jobs).
- Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand$37,040 in Dalton, GA sits 8.0% below the national Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand median of $40,240 (2,470 published local jobs).
- Textile Winding, Twisting, and Drawing Out Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders$38,670 in Dalton, GA sits 0.0% above the national Textile Winding, Twisting, and Drawing Out Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders median of $38,670 (3,370 published local jobs).
Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Dalton, GA; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 19140 · Dalton, GA $53K mean
MEAN-TRACE · RPP-LOW · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST
- MEAN-TRACE #399/528
- RPP-LOW 89.8
- OCC-MID 225 occs
- TOP-LEAD Family Medicin… · $326K
- EMP-MIX Project Mana…
- TREND-INLINE +0.3 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Las Cruces, NM
- BOOK-MOST 225 rows · May 2025
Read with Las Cruces, NM ($24 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 Dalton, GA
Where Dalton, GA already employs the upper wage tier
Project Management Specialists and Software Developers lead published employment inside Dalton, GA's top-pay sample, order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Project Management Specialists 300 jobs · $98,590
- 2. Software Developers 280 jobs · $115,480
- 3. Industrial Production Managers 220 jobs · $116,720
- 4. Managers, All Other 220 jobs · $102,740
- 5. Financial Managers 200 jobs · $133,000
- 6. Civil Engineers 200 jobs · $99,760
- 7. Sales Managers 180 jobs · $139,960
- 8. Nurse Practitioners 160 jobs · $118,330
- 9. Pharmacists 120 jobs · $130,050
- 10. Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers 120 jobs · $105,800
- 11. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 120 jobs · $99,490
- 12. Administrative Services Managers 110 jobs · $107,200
- 13. Family Medicine Physicians 90 jobs · $326,210
- 14. Computer and Information Systems Managers 90 jobs · $161,140
- 15. Marketing Managers 80 jobs · $162,010
- 16. Human Resources Managers 70 jobs · $130,700
- 17. Medical and Health Services Managers 70 jobs · $118,720
- 18. Physicians, All Other 50 jobs · $287,800
Occupations Tracked
225
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$53,395
employment-weighted, 225 complete rows
Top Salary
$326,210
Family Medicine Physicians
Cost of Living
89.8
10% below US avg
Top-pay occupations in Dalton, 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 | Project Management Specialists | $98,590 |
| 2 | Software Developers | $115,480 |
| 3 | Industrial Production Managers | $116,720 |
| 4 | Managers, All Other | $102,740 |
| 5 | Financial Managers | $133,000 |
| 6 | Civil Engineers | $99,760 |
| 7 | Sales Managers | $139,960 |
| 8 | Nurse Practitioners | $118,330 |
| 9 | Pharmacists | $130,050 |
| 10 | Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers | $105,800 |
| 11 | Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary | $99,490 |
| 12 | Administrative Services Managers | $107,200 |
| 13 | Family Medicine Physicians | $326,210 |
| 14 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $161,140 |
| 15 | Marketing Managers | $162,010 |
| 16 | Human Resources Managers | $130,700 |
| 17 | Medical and Health Services Managers | $118,720 |
| 18 | Physicians, All Other | $287,800 |
| 19 | Physical Therapists | $109,710 |
| 20 | Data Scientists | $101,020 |
| 21 | Chief Executives | $242,760 |
| 22 | Dentists, General | $202,690 |
| 23 | Architectural and Engineering Managers | $163,550 |
| 24 | Training and Development Managers | $129,730 |
| 25 | Occupational Therapists | $111,580 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in Dalton, GA
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Waiters and Waitresses | $17,930 |
| Bartenders | $20,260 |
| Childcare Workers | $22,260 |
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $22,590 |
| Cutters and Trimmers, Hand | $22,930 |
| Recreation Workers | $22,980 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $23,400 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $24,520 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $24,960 |
| Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners | $26,020 |
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 ($53,395 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 Dalton, GA wage figures in a real decision
- Family Medicine Physicians leads published medians in Dalton, GA at $326,210/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Family Medicine Physicians
- The employment-weighted published-row mean of $53,395 adjusts to about $59,431 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 89.8. 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.