Gettysburg, PA 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 Gettysburg, PA moved from $45,160 in May 2024 to $46,610 in May 2025 (+3.2%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Gettysburg, PA sits +0.1 pp near that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 23900 · Gettysburg, PA $54K mean
MEAN-LOW · RPP-MID · OCC-THIN · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST
- MEAN-LOW #381/528
- RPP-MID 95.4
- OCC-THIN 179 occs
- TOP-LEAD Chief Executives · $181K
- EMP-MIX Medical and…
- TREND-INLINE +0.1 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Southeast Iowa n…
- BOOK-MOST 178 rows · May 2025
Read with Southeast Iowa nonmetropolitan area ($10 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 Gettysburg, PA
Largest published OEWS footprints in Gettysburg, PA
Medical and Health Services Managers and Financial Managers lead published employment inside Gettysburg, PA's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Medical and Health Services Managers 120 jobs · $97,700
- 2. Financial Managers 110 jobs · $117,740
- 3. Computer Occupations, All Other 110 jobs · $109,970
- 4. Industrial Production Managers 110 jobs · $105,000
- 5. Business Operations Specialists, All Other 110 jobs · $101,500
- 6. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 100 jobs · $110,250
- 7. Special Education Teachers, Secondary School 100 jobs · $98,860
- 8. Sales Managers 80 jobs · $118,460
- 9. Managers, All Other 70 jobs · $136,730
- 10. First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives 60 jobs · $128,210
- 11. Management Analysts 60 jobs · $114,920
- 12. Lawyers 60 jobs · $101,030
- 13. Nurse Practitioners 50 jobs · $132,510
- 14. Computer and Information Systems Managers 50 jobs · $128,370
- 15. Speech-Language Pathologists 50 jobs · $104,280
- 16. Software Developers 50 jobs · $100,560
- 17. Construction Managers 50 jobs · $98,930
- 18. Industrial Engineers 50 jobs · $97,650
Occupations Tracked
179
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$54,082
employment-weighted, 178 complete rows
Top Salary
$180,910
Chief Executives
Cost of Living
95.4
5% below US avg
Top-pay occupations in Gettysburg, PA, 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 | $97,700 |
| 2 | Financial Managers | $117,740 |
| 3 | Computer Occupations, All Other | $109,970 |
| 4 | Industrial Production Managers | $105,000 |
| 5 | Business Operations Specialists, All Other | $101,500 |
| 6 | Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary | $110,250 |
| 7 | Special Education Teachers, Secondary School | $98,860 |
| 8 | Sales Managers | $118,460 |
| 9 | Managers, All Other | $136,730 |
| 10 | First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives | $128,210 |
| 11 | Management Analysts | $114,920 |
| 12 | Lawyers | $101,030 |
| 13 | Nurse Practitioners | $132,510 |
| 14 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $128,370 |
| 15 | Speech-Language Pathologists | $104,280 |
| 16 | Software Developers | $100,560 |
| 17 | Construction Managers | $98,930 |
| 18 | Industrial Engineers | $97,650 |
| 19 | Pharmacists | $131,450 |
| 20 | Physical Therapists | $103,890 |
| 21 | Chief Executives | $180,910 |
| 22 | Veterinarians | $130,410 |
| 23 | Human Resources Managers | $128,430 |
| 24 | Physician Assistants | $124,520 |
| 25 | Occupational Therapists | $107,880 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in Gettysburg, PA
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Ushers, Lobby Attendants, and Ticket Takers | $24,020 |
| Cooks, Fast Food | $26,350 |
| Bartenders | $26,400 |
| Sales and Related Workers, All Other | $26,490 |
| Library Assistants, Clerical | $27,310 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $27,350 |
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $27,490 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $27,590 |
| Dishwashers | $28,120 |
| Retail Salespersons | $28,500 |
Other BLS Wage Areas in PA
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 PA. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($54,082 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.