Daphne-Fairhope-Foley, AL Salaries
Largest OEWS employment footprints with published wages - BLS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Daphne-Fairhope-Foley, AL moved from $37,430 in May 2024 to $38,520 in May 2025 (+2.9%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Daphne-Fairhope-Foley, AL sits -0.2 pp near 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 Daphne-Fairhope-Foley, AL
Fast Food and Counter Workers publishes $23,000 here versus $31,200 nationally (-26.3%; 2,240metro-area jobs). Next is Waiters and Waitresses at $27,080 locally versus $35,230 nationally (-23.1%).
- Fast Food and Counter Workers$23,000 in Daphne-Fairhope-Foley, AL sits 26.3% below the national Fast Food and Counter Workers median of $31,200 (2,240 published local jobs).
- Waiters and Waitresses$27,080 in Daphne-Fairhope-Foley, AL sits 23.1% below the national Waiters and Waitresses median of $35,230 (3,120 published local jobs).
- Retail Salespersons$29,600 in Daphne-Fairhope-Foley, AL sits 16.4% below the national Retail Salespersons median of $35,410 (4,550 published local jobs).
- Cashiers$28,380 in Daphne-Fairhope-Foley, AL sits 13.7% below the national Cashiers median of $32,880 (2,680 published local jobs).
Fast Food and Counter Workers and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Daphne-Fairhope-Foley, AL; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 19300 · Daphne-Fairhope-Foley, AL $48K mean
MEAN-TRACE · RPP-LOW · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST
- MEAN-TRACE #503/528
- RPP-LOW 94.7
- OCC-MID 269 occs
- TOP-LEAD Nurse Anesthet… · $198K
- EMP-MIX General and…
- TREND-INLINE -0.2 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Central Louisian…
- BOOK-MOST 261 rows · May 2025
Read with Central Louisiana nonmetropolitan area ($70 on published-row mean) · Fastest-growing occupations
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 Daphne-Fairhope-Foley, AL
Largest published OEWS footprints in Daphne-Fairhope-Foley, AL
General and Operations Managers and Software Developers lead published employment inside Daphne-Fairhope-Foley, AL's top-pay sample, order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. General and Operations Managers 1,380 jobs · $100,260
- 2. Software Developers 340 jobs · $121,320
- 3. Physicians, All Other 210 jobs · $133,880
- 4. Pharmacists 200 jobs · $136,860
- 5. Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers 190 jobs · $96,510
- 6. Financial Managers 170 jobs · $133,390
- 7. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 150 jobs · $100,450
- 8. Sales Managers 140 jobs · $124,990
- 9. Computer and Information Systems Managers 100 jobs · $124,650
- 10. Industrial Production Managers 90 jobs · $122,260
- 11. Industrial Engineers 90 jobs · $99,650
- 12. Architectural and Engineering Managers 70 jobs · $160,680
- 13. Management Analysts 70 jobs · $126,810
- 14. Electrical Engineers 60 jobs · $103,240
- 15. First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives 60 jobs · $97,560
- 16. Marketing Managers 50 jobs · $107,340
- 17. Human Resources Managers 50 jobs · $103,910
- 18. Optometrists 40 jobs · $160,680
Occupations Tracked
269
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$47,954
employment-weighted, 261 complete rows
Top Salary
$197,560
Nurse Anesthetists
Cost of Living
94.7
5% below US avg
Top-pay occupations in Daphne-Fairhope-Foley, AL, by employment
Same top-pay sample as the salary ranking, sorted by published local jobs so the title sequence follows the OEWS mix.
Lowest Paying Jobs in Daphne-Fairhope-Foley, AL
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Bus Drivers, School | $17,840 |
| Childcare Workers | $22,280 |
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $22,330 |
| Cooks, Short Order | $22,330 |
| Teaching Assistants, Postsecondary | $22,910 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $23,000 |
| Substitute Teachers, Short-Term | $25,340 |
| Residential Advisors | $26,220 |
| Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary | $26,620 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $26,870 |
Other BLS Wage Areas in AL
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 AL. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($47,954 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 Daphne-Fairhope-Foley, AL wage figures in a real decision
- Nurse Anesthetists leads published medians in Daphne-Fairhope-Foley, AL at $197,560/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Nurse Anesthetists
- The employment-weighted published-row mean of $47,954 adjusts to about $50,643 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 94.7. Salary vs cost of living
- Compare this metropolitan statistical area against the statewide occupation table for AL 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.