Gainesville, GA Salaries
Highest published occupation medians in Gainesville, GA - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Gainesville, GA moved from $44,300 in May 2024 to $45,900 in May 2025 (+3.6%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Gainesville, GA sits +0.5 pp ahead of that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
Fast Food and Counter Workers shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Gainesville, GA
Fast Food and Counter Workers publishes $26,690 here versus $31,200 nationally (-14.5%; 2,910metro-area jobs). Next is Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators at $39,420 locally versus $44,650 nationally (-11.7%).
- Fast Food and Counter Workers$26,690 in Gainesville, GA sits 14.5% below the national Fast Food and Counter Workers median of $31,200 (2,910 published local jobs).
- Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators$39,420 in Gainesville, GA sits 11.7% below the national Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators median of $44,650 (2,240 published local jobs).
- Retail Salespersons$31,870 in Gainesville, GA sits 10.0% below the national Retail Salespersons median of $35,410 (2,590 published local jobs).
- Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand$38,930 in Gainesville, GA sits 3.3% below the national Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand median of $40,240 (3,820 published local jobs).
Fast Food and Counter Workers and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Gainesville, GA; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 23580 · Gainesville, GA $55K mean
MEAN-LOW · RPP-MID · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST
- MEAN-LOW #345/528
- RPP-MID 96.8
- OCC-MID 298 occs
- TOP-LEAD Dentists, Gene… · $210K
- EMP-MIX Physicians,…
- TREND-INLINE +0.5 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Southwestern Pen…
- BOOK-MOST 293 rows · May 2025
Read with Southwestern Pennsylvania nonmetropolitan area ($12 on published-row mean) · Highest-paying careers
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 Gainesville, GA
Employment scale inside Gainesville, GA's top-pay list
Physicians, All Other and Nurse Practitioners lead published employment inside Gainesville, GA's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Physicians, All Other 390 jobs · $130,500
- 2. Nurse Practitioners 380 jobs · $126,120
- 3. Financial Managers 290 jobs · $144,850
- 4. Software Developers 290 jobs · $121,940
- 5. Sales Managers 280 jobs · $133,390
- 6. Administrative Services Managers 270 jobs · $134,360
- 7. Medical and Health Services Managers 220 jobs · $141,380
- 8. Pharmacists 210 jobs · $135,920
- 9. Computer Systems Analysts 210 jobs · $113,740
- 10. Industrial Production Managers 190 jobs · $136,460
- 11. Computer and Information Systems Managers 180 jobs · $156,450
- 12. Human Resources Managers 140 jobs · $140,120
- 13. Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers 140 jobs · $116,340
- 14. Family Medicine Physicians 110 jobs · $205,820
- 15. Architectural and Engineering Managers 90 jobs · $132,570
- 16. Marketing Managers 80 jobs · $135,840
- 17. Physician Assistants 70 jobs · $111,440
- 18. Facilities Managers 70 jobs · $106,660
Occupations Tracked
298
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$55,322
employment-weighted, 293 complete rows
Top Salary
$210,400
Dentists, General
Cost of Living
96.8
3% below US avg
Highest Paying Jobs in Gainesville, GA
| # | Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dentists, General | $210,400 |
| 2 | Family Medicine Physicians | $205,820 |
| 3 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $156,450 |
| 4 | Financial Managers | $144,850 |
| 5 | Judges, Magistrate Judges, and Magistrates | $144,790 |
| 6 | Medical and Health Services Managers | $141,380 |
| 7 | Human Resources Managers | $140,120 |
| 8 | Industrial Production Managers | $136,460 |
| 9 | Pharmacists | $135,920 |
| 10 | Marketing Managers | $135,840 |
| 11 | Administrative Services Managers | $134,360 |
| 12 | Sales Managers | $133,390 |
| 13 | Architectural and Engineering Managers | $132,570 |
| 14 | Physicians, All Other | $130,500 |
| 15 | Education Administrators, All Other | $126,490 |
| 16 | Nurse Practitioners | $126,120 |
| 17 | Purchasing Managers | $126,010 |
| 18 | Computer Network Architects | $124,260 |
| 19 | Veterinarians | $122,040 |
| 20 | Software Developers | $121,940 |
| 21 | Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers | $116,340 |
| 22 | Computer Systems Analysts | $113,740 |
| 23 | Physician Assistants | $111,440 |
| 24 | Personal Financial Advisors | $111,430 |
| 25 | Facilities Managers | $106,660 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in Gainesville, GA
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Waiters and Waitresses | $17,980 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $21,070 |
| Food Preparation and Serving Related Workers, All Other | $23,160 |
| Bartenders | $24,180 |
| Bailiffs | $26,210 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $26,690 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $27,250 |
| Childcare Workers | $27,800 |
| Cooks, Fast Food | $27,890 |
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $28,340 |
Other BLS Wage Areas in GA
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 GA. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($55,322 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.