Gettysburg, PA Salaries

Largest OEWS employment footprints with published wages - BLS May 2025

Observed metro pay change

What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025

May 2024 → May 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

Guayama, PR · lowest mean: $32KGuayama, PR · lowest mean$32KGettysburg, PA · this MSA: $54KGettysburg, PA · this MSA$54KSoutheast Iowa nonme… · near: $54KSoutheast Iowa nonme… · near$54KNortheast Iowa nonme… · near: $54KNortheast Iowa nonme… · near$54KAthens-Clarke County… · near: $54KAthens-Clarke County… · near$54KShreveport-Bossier C… · near: $54KShreveport-Bossier C… · near$54KSan Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · highest mean: $119KSan Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · high…$119K
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Label Value
Guayama, PR · lowest mean $32K
Gettysburg, PA · this MSA $54K
Southeast Iowa nonme… · near $54K
Northeast Iowa nonme… · near $54K
Athens-Clarke County… · near $54K
Shreveport-Bossier C… · near $54K
San Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · highest mean $119K

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. 1. Medical and Health Services Managers 120 jobs · $97,700
  2. 2. Financial Managers 110 jobs · $117,740
  3. 3. Computer Occupations, All Other 110 jobs · $109,970
  4. 4. Industrial Production Managers 110 jobs · $105,000
  5. 5. Business Operations Specialists, All Other 110 jobs · $101,500
  6. 6. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 100 jobs · $110,250
  7. 7. Special Education Teachers, Secondary School 100 jobs · $98,860
  8. 8. Sales Managers 80 jobs · $118,460
  9. 9. Managers, All Other 70 jobs · $136,730
  10. 10. First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives 60 jobs · $128,210
  11. 11. Management Analysts 60 jobs · $114,920
  12. 12. Lawyers 60 jobs · $101,030
  13. 13. Nurse Practitioners 50 jobs · $132,510
  14. 14. Computer and Information Systems Managers 50 jobs · $128,370
  15. 15. Speech-Language Pathologists 50 jobs · $104,280
  16. 16. Software Developers 50 jobs · $100,560
  17. 17. Construction Managers 50 jobs · $98,930
  18. 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

Price-level adjustment: Dividing the derived published-row mean of $54,082 by the metro RPP gives $56,702 on a national-price basis. This is not an after-tax income or a personal cost-of-living result.

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

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.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the average salary in Gettysburg, PA?
Across the 178 occupation rows for Gettysburg, PA with both a published mean wage and employment estimate, weighting each mean by employment gives $54,082/year (BLS OEWS May 2025). The page has 179 occupations with a published median, a different denominator. This WageDex-derived benchmark is not a BLS-published All Occupations metro mean or median and does not state what a typical local worker earns. For contrast, averaging the medians of only the 25 highest-paying occupations gives $116,406, which describes the displayed top tier only.
What is the highest paying job in Gettysburg, PA?
The highest paying occupation in Gettysburg, PA is Chief Executives with a median salary of $180,910/year. The second highest is Managers, All Other at $136,730/year.
What is the cost of living in Gettysburg, PA?
Gettysburg, PA has a Regional Price Parity of 95.4, meaning prices are 5% below the national average. Dividing the derived published-row mean of $54,082 by the RPP gives a national-price-equivalent benchmark of $56,702.
What jobs pay the least in Gettysburg, PA?
The lowest paying occupation in Gettysburg, PA is Ushers, Lobby Attendants, and Ticket Takers with a median salary of $24,020/year according to BLS data.
How is employment used on this Gettysburg, PA wage page?
Employment counts are BLS OEWS May 2025 estimates for occupations published in this MSA. Roster and peer sections sort on those counts; the published-row mean weights each occupation's mean wage by its employment estimate. Occupations without employment are excluded from the weighted mean but can still appear when a median exists.

Last updated: May 2025 (BLS OEWS annual release). Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS May 2025. Cost-of-living index: BEA Regional Price Parities, 2024.

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.

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