Fairbanks-College, AK 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 Fairbanks-College, AK moved from $58,820 in May 2024 to $61,810 in May 2025 (+5.1%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Fairbanks-College, AK sits +2.0 pp ahead of 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.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 21820 · Fairbanks-College, AK $69K mean
MEAN-HIGH · RPP-MID · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST
- MEAN-HIGH #56/528
- RPP-MID 103.2
- OCC-MID 205 occs
- TOP-LEAD Pharmacists · $173K
- EMP-MIX General and…
- TREND-INLINE +2.0 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Fort Collins-Lov…
- BOOK-MOST 203 rows · May 2025
Read with Fort Collins-Loveland, CO ($21 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 Fairbanks-College, AK
Largest published OEWS footprints in Fairbanks-College, AK
General and Operations Managers and Civil Engineers lead published employment inside Fairbanks-College, AK's top-pay sample, order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. General and Operations Managers 630 jobs · $114,990
- 2. Civil Engineers 240 jobs · $111,080
- 3. Financial Managers 190 jobs · $122,260
- 4. Construction Managers 180 jobs · $137,470
- 5. Managers, All Other 180 jobs · $129,270
- 6. Medical and Health Services Managers 170 jobs · $131,310
- 7. Architectural and Engineering Managers 110 jobs · $159,570
- 8. Computer and Information Systems Managers 90 jobs · $135,980
- 9. Lawyers 90 jobs · $129,660
- 10. Nurse Practitioners 80 jobs · $144,300
- 11. Physician Assistants 70 jobs · $164,910
- 12. Dental Hygienists 70 jobs · $131,860
- 13. Facilities Managers 70 jobs · $123,240
- 14. Natural Sciences Managers 70 jobs · $115,410
- 15. Pharmacists 50 jobs · $173,340
- 16. Chief Executives 50 jobs · $150,930
- 17. First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives 50 jobs · $137,880
- 18. Massage Therapists 50 jobs · $130,590
Occupations Tracked
205
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$68,814
employment-weighted, 203 complete rows
Top Salary
$173,340
Pharmacists
Cost of Living
103.2
3% above US avg
Top-pay occupations in Fairbanks-College, AK, 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 | General and Operations Managers | $114,990 |
| 2 | Civil Engineers | $111,080 |
| 3 | Financial Managers | $122,260 |
| 4 | Construction Managers | $137,470 |
| 5 | Managers, All Other | $129,270 |
| 6 | Medical and Health Services Managers | $131,310 |
| 7 | Architectural and Engineering Managers | $159,570 |
| 8 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $135,980 |
| 9 | Lawyers | $129,660 |
| 10 | Nurse Practitioners | $144,300 |
| 11 | Physician Assistants | $164,910 |
| 12 | Dental Hygienists | $131,860 |
| 13 | Facilities Managers | $123,240 |
| 14 | Natural Sciences Managers | $115,410 |
| 15 | Pharmacists | $173,340 |
| 16 | Chief Executives | $150,930 |
| 17 | First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives | $137,880 |
| 18 | Massage Therapists | $130,590 |
| 19 | Mechanical Engineers | $122,760 |
| 20 | Human Resources Managers | $116,060 |
| 21 | Physical Therapists | $113,570 |
| 22 | Environmental Engineers | $109,410 |
| 23 | Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers | $133,220 |
| 24 | Information Security Analysts | $114,990 |
| 25 | Electrical Engineers | $111,090 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in Fairbanks-College, AK
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Waiters and Waitresses | $26,530 |
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $27,740 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $30,170 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $31,020 |
| Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary | $31,090 |
| Bartenders | $31,840 |
| Dishwashers | $32,900 |
| Food Preparation Workers | $34,530 |
| Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and Cosmetologists | $36,610 |
| Childcare Workers | $36,750 |
Other BLS Wage Areas in AK
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 AK. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($68,814 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 Fairbanks-College, AK wage figures in a real decision
- Pharmacists leads published medians in Fairbanks-College, AK at $173,340/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Pharmacists
- The employment-weighted published-row mean of $68,814 adjusts to about $66,675 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 103.2. Salary vs cost of living
- Compare this metropolitan statistical area against the statewide occupation table for AK 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.