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.
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.
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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- Chief Executives leads published medians in Gettysburg, PA at $180,910/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Chief Executives
- The employment-weighted published-row mean of $54,082 adjusts to about $56,702 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 95.4. Salary vs cost of living
- Compare this metropolitan statistical area against the statewide occupation table for PA 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.