Florence-Muscle Shoals, AL Salaries
Local wages where BEA prices sit below the US average (RPP 84.8) - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Florence-Muscle Shoals, AL moved from $38,640 in May 2024 to $39,740 in May 2025 (+2.8%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Florence-Muscle Shoals, AL sits -0.3 pp near that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
Retail Salespersons shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Florence-Muscle Shoals, AL
Retail Salespersons publishes $28,980 here versus $35,410 nationally (-18.2%; 2,080metro-area jobs).
- Retail Salespersons$28,980 in Florence-Muscle Shoals, AL sits 18.2% below the national Retail Salespersons median of $35,410 (2,080 published local jobs).
Retail Salespersons and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Florence-Muscle Shoals, AL; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 22520 · Florence-Muscle Shoals, AL $49K mean
MEAN-TRACE · RPP-QUIET · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST
- MEAN-TRACE #494/528
- RPP-QUIET 84.8
- OCC-MID 219 occs
- TOP-LEAD Nurse Anesthet… · $189K
- EMP-MIX General and…
- TREND-INLINE -0.3 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Valdosta, GA
- BOOK-MOST 216 rows · May 2025
Read with Valdosta, GA ($5 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 Florence-Muscle Shoals, AL
Where Florence-Muscle Shoals, AL already employs the upper wage tier
General and Operations Managers and Nurse Practitioners lead published employment inside Florence-Muscle Shoals, AL's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. General and Operations Managers 740 jobs · $97,600
- 2. Nurse Practitioners 220 jobs · $101,040
- 3. Pharmacists 160 jobs · $130,540
- 4. Financial Managers 150 jobs · $128,830
- 5. Physicians, All Other 140 jobs · $125,010
- 6. Industrial Engineers 140 jobs · $98,550
- 7. Industrial Production Managers 130 jobs · $120,490
- 8. Software Developers 130 jobs · $116,260
- 9. Civil Engineers 110 jobs · $100,300
- 10. Lawyers 110 jobs · $98,850
- 11. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 90 jobs · $97,940
- 12. Mechanical Engineers 80 jobs · $108,510
- 13. Sales Managers 80 jobs · $104,010
- 14. Project Management Specialists 80 jobs · $93,950
- 15. Computer and Information Systems Managers 60 jobs · $109,970
- 16. Nurse Anesthetists 50 jobs · $188,760
- 17. Architectural and Engineering Managers 50 jobs · $157,570
- 18. Dentists, General 50 jobs · $153,870
Occupations Tracked
219
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$48,717
employment-weighted, 216 complete rows
Top Salary
$188,760
Nurse Anesthetists
Cost of Living
84.8
15% below US avg
Top-pay occupations in Florence-Muscle Shoals, AL, 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 | $97,600 |
| 2 | Nurse Practitioners | $101,040 |
| 3 | Pharmacists | $130,540 |
| 4 | Financial Managers | $128,830 |
| 5 | Physicians, All Other | $125,010 |
| 6 | Industrial Engineers | $98,550 |
| 7 | Industrial Production Managers | $120,490 |
| 8 | Software Developers | $116,260 |
| 9 | Civil Engineers | $100,300 |
| 10 | Lawyers | $98,850 |
| 11 | Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary | $97,940 |
| 12 | Mechanical Engineers | $108,510 |
| 13 | Sales Managers | $104,010 |
| 14 | Project Management Specialists | $93,950 |
| 15 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $109,970 |
| 16 | Nurse Anesthetists | $188,760 |
| 17 | Architectural and Engineering Managers | $157,570 |
| 18 | Dentists, General | $153,870 |
| 19 | Electrical Engineers | $131,330 |
| 20 | Chief Executives | $164,770 |
| 21 | Facilities Managers | $140,000 |
| 22 | Human Resources Managers | $117,960 |
| 23 | Veterinarians | $98,990 |
| 24 | Management Analysts | $98,270 |
| 25 | Education Administrators, All Other | $92,830 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in Florence-Muscle Shoals, AL
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Bus Drivers, School | $17,260 |
| Teaching Assistants, Postsecondary | $19,550 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $19,880 |
| Cooks, Short Order | $21,480 |
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $21,930 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $22,590 |
| Substitute Teachers, Short-Term | $23,060 |
| Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary | $23,330 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $23,390 |
| Residential Advisors | $23,530 |
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 ($48,717 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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