Florence, SC Salaries
Local wages where BEA prices sit below the US average (RPP 86.8) - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Florence, SC moved from $40,200 in May 2024 to $43,520 in May 2025 (+8.3%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Florence, SC sits +5.2 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.
Fast Food and Counter Workers shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Florence, SC
Fast Food and Counter Workers publishes $24,590 here versus $31,200 nationally (-21.2%; 2,880metro-area jobs). Next is Cashiers at $26,420 locally versus $32,880 nationally (-19.6%).
- Fast Food and Counter Workers$24,590 in Florence, SC sits 21.2% below the national Fast Food and Counter Workers median of $31,200 (2,880 published local jobs).
- Cashiers$26,420 in Florence, SC sits 19.6% below the national Cashiers median of $32,880 (2,430 published local jobs).
- Retail Salespersons$28,650 in Florence, SC sits 19.1% below the national Retail Salespersons median of $35,410 (2,600 published local jobs).
- Registered Nurses$81,170 in Florence, SC sits 16.8% below the national Registered Nurses median of $97,550 (3,120 published local jobs).
Fast Food and Counter Workers and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Florence, SC; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 22500 · Florence, SC $55K mean
MEAN-LOW · RPP-QUIET · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-AHEAD · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST
- MEAN-LOW #356/528
- RPP-QUIET 86.8
- OCC-MID 285 occs
- TOP-LEAD General Intern… · $348K
- EMP-MIX Medical and…
- TREND-AHEAD +5.2 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Houma-Bayou Cane…
- BOOK-MOST 284 rows · May 2025
Read with Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux, LA (+$12 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, SC
Where Florence, SC already employs the upper wage tier
Medical and Health Services Managers and Physicians, All Other lead published employment inside Florence, SC's top-pay sample, order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Medical and Health Services Managers 580 jobs · $118,750
- 2. Physicians, All Other 370 jobs · $282,920
- 3. Pharmacists 320 jobs · $155,020
- 4. Financial Managers 300 jobs · $134,650
- 5. Sales Managers 300 jobs · $121,930
- 6. Industrial Production Managers 290 jobs · $126,630
- 7. Nurse Practitioners 270 jobs · $121,930
- 8. Software Developers 250 jobs · $108,460
- 9. Surgical Assistants 200 jobs · $133,380
- 10. Computer and Information Systems Managers 140 jobs · $138,120
- 11. Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers 130 jobs · $106,860
- 12. Construction Managers 110 jobs · $113,110
- 13. Physical Therapists 110 jobs · $108,160
- 14. Human Resources Managers 100 jobs · $136,400
- 15. Administrative Services Managers 100 jobs · $123,460
- 16. Facilities Managers 100 jobs · $112,890
- 17. Physician Assistants 90 jobs · $120,290
- 18. Architectural and Engineering Managers 80 jobs · $173,110
Occupations Tracked
285
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$55,028
employment-weighted, 284 complete rows
Top Salary
$348,250
General Internal Medicine Physicians
Cost of Living
86.8
13% below US avg
Top-pay occupations in Florence, SC, 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 | Medical and Health Services Managers | $118,750 |
| 2 | Physicians, All Other | $282,920 |
| 3 | Pharmacists | $155,020 |
| 4 | Financial Managers | $134,650 |
| 5 | Sales Managers | $121,930 |
| 6 | Industrial Production Managers | $126,630 |
| 7 | Nurse Practitioners | $121,930 |
| 8 | Software Developers | $108,460 |
| 9 | Surgical Assistants | $133,380 |
| 10 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $138,120 |
| 11 | Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers | $106,860 |
| 12 | Construction Managers | $113,110 |
| 13 | Physical Therapists | $108,160 |
| 14 | Human Resources Managers | $136,400 |
| 15 | Administrative Services Managers | $123,460 |
| 16 | Facilities Managers | $112,890 |
| 17 | Physician Assistants | $120,290 |
| 18 | Architectural and Engineering Managers | $173,110 |
| 19 | Marketing Managers | $154,620 |
| 20 | Managers, All Other | $124,810 |
| 21 | Chief Executives | $160,660 |
| 22 | Dentists, General | $137,260 |
| 23 | General Internal Medicine Physicians | $348,250 |
| 24 | Family Medicine Physicians | $257,170 |
| 25 | Purchasing Managers | $123,920 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in Florence, SC
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Waiters and Waitresses | $17,460 |
| Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary | $22,830 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $22,910 |
| Bartenders | $22,990 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $23,240 |
| Cooks, Fast Food | $23,310 |
| Packers and Packagers, Hand | $24,500 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $24,590 |
| Library Assistants, Clerical | $25,040 |
| Cashiers | $26,420 |
Other BLS Wage Areas in SC
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 SC. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($55,028 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 Florence, SC wage figures in a real decision
- General Internal Medicine Physicians leads published medians in Florence, SC at $348,250/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. General Internal Medicine Physicians
- The employment-weighted published-row mean of $55,028 adjusts to about $63,415 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 86.8. Salary vs cost of living
- Compare this metropolitan statistical area against the statewide occupation table for SC 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.