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.
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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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.