Grants Pass, OR Salaries

Highest published occupation medians in Grants Pass, OR - BLS OEWS May 2025

Observed metro pay change

What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025

May 2024 → May 2025
  • BLS's published All Occupations median in Grants Pass, OR moved from $49,010 in May 2024 to $50,730 in May 2025 (+3.5%).
  • Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
  • Grants Pass, OR sits +0.4 pp near that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.

Home Health and Personal Care Aides shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Grants Pass, OR

Home Health and Personal Care Aides publishes $53,120 here versus $35,800 nationally (+48.4%; 4,640metro-area jobs).

  1. Home Health and Personal Care Aides$53,120 in Grants Pass, OR sits 48.4% above the national Home Health and Personal Care Aides median of $35,800 (4,640 published local jobs).

Home Health and Personal Care Aides and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Grants Pass, OR; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.

BLS OEWS metro wage desk

MSA 24420 · Grants Pass, OR $57K mean

MEAN-LOW · RPP-MID · OCC-THIN · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST

  • MEAN-LOW #288/528
  • RPP-MID 97.8
  • OCC-THIN 159 occs
  • TOP-LEAD Physicians, Al… · $460K
  • EMP-MIX Registered N…
  • TREND-INLINE +0.4 pp
  • PHOTO-FINISH Sebastian-Vero B…
  • BOOK-MOST 158 rows · May 2025

Read with Sebastian-Vero Beach-West Vero Corridor, FL ($28 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 Grants Pass, OR

Guayama, PR · lowest mean: $32KGuayama, PR · lowest mean$32KGrants Pass, OR · this MSA: $57KGrants Pass, OR · this MSA$57KSebastian-Vero Beach… · near: $57KSebastian-Vero Beach… · near$57KSouthwest Minnesota… · near: $57KSouthwest Minnesota… · near$57KFlint, MI · near: $57KFlint, MI · near$57KWatertown-Fort Drum,… · near: $57KWatertown-Fort Drum,… · near$57KSan Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · highest mean: $119KSan Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · high…$119K
Read the chart as text
Label Value
Guayama, PR · lowest mean $32K
Grants Pass, OR · this MSA $57K
Sebastian-Vero Beach… · near $57K
Southwest Minnesota… · near $57K
Flint, MI · near $57K
Watertown-Fort Drum,… · near $57K
San Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · highest mean $119K

Employment scale inside Grants Pass, OR's top-pay list

Registered Nurses and Medical and Health Services Managers lead published employment inside Grants Pass, OR's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.

  1. 1. Registered Nurses 540 jobs · $106,710
  2. 2. Medical and Health Services Managers 100 jobs · $130,400
  3. 3. Project Management Specialists 90 jobs · $95,640
  4. 4. Software Developers 80 jobs · $130,120
  5. 5. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 80 jobs · $128,380
  6. 6. Financial Managers 70 jobs · $139,230
  7. 7. Dental Hygienists 60 jobs · $116,210
  8. 8. Physical Therapists 60 jobs · $106,550
  9. 9. Nurse Practitioners 50 jobs · $148,160
  10. 10. Pharmacists 50 jobs · $142,090
  11. 11. Sales Managers 50 jobs · $126,900
  12. 12. Industrial Production Managers 50 jobs · $99,620
  13. 13. Loan Officers 50 jobs · $94,220
  14. 14. Physicians, All Other 40 jobs · $460,430
  15. 15. Computer and Information Systems Managers 40 jobs · $167,860
  16. 16. Managers, All Other 40 jobs · $124,190
  17. 17. Administrative Services Managers 40 jobs · $106,670
  18. 18. Computer Systems Analysts 40 jobs · $106,040

Occupations Tracked

159

with wage data

Published-Row Mean

$57,067

employment-weighted, 158 complete rows

Top Salary

$460,430

Physicians, All Other

Cost of Living

97.8

2% below US avg

Price-level adjustment: Dividing the derived published-row mean of $57,067 by the metro RPP gives $58,375 on a national-price basis. This is not an after-tax income or a personal cost-of-living result.

Highest Paying Jobs in Grants Pass, OR

# Occupation Median Salary
1 Physicians, All Other $460,430
2 Dentists, General $213,240
3 Computer and Information Systems Managers $167,860
4 Physician Assistants $152,350
5 Nurse Practitioners $148,160
6 Pharmacists $142,090
7 Financial Managers $139,230
8 Medical and Health Services Managers $130,400
9 Software Developers $130,120
10 Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary $128,380
11 Sales Managers $126,900
12 Managers, All Other $124,190
13 Dental Hygienists $116,210
14 Construction Managers $111,850
15 Registered Nurses $106,710
16 Administrative Services Managers $106,670
17 Physical Therapists $106,550
18 Computer Systems Analysts $106,040
19 Lawyers $104,520
20 Industrial Production Managers $99,620
21 Management Analysts $98,110
22 Project Management Specialists $95,640
23 Massage Therapists $94,610
24 Network and Computer Systems Administrators $94,420
25 Loan Officers $94,220

Lowest Paying Jobs in Grants Pass, OR

Other BLS Wage Areas in OR

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 OR. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($57,067 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 Grants Pass, OR?
Across the 158 occupation rows for Grants Pass, OR with both a published mean wage and employment estimate, weighting each mean by employment gives $57,067/year (BLS OEWS May 2025). The page has 159 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 $135,941, which describes the displayed top tier only.
Which published medians lead Grants Pass, OR?
Physicians, All Other holds the highest published median in Grants Pass, OR at $460,430/year (BLS OEWS May 2025). Next is Dentists, General at $213,240/year. These are occupation medians for this metropolitan statistical area, not employer offers.
What is the cost of living in Grants Pass, OR?
Grants Pass, OR has a Regional Price Parity of 97.8, meaning prices are 2% below the national average. Dividing the derived published-row mean of $57,067 by the RPP gives a national-price-equivalent benchmark of $58,375.
Where does BLS salary data for Grants Pass, OR come from?
All salary figures are Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS May 2025 estimates for this metropolitan statistical area. OEWS surveys approximately 1.1 million business establishments. Medians and means on this page are the published occupation-level estimates for the area — not job-board scrapes or modeled employer offers.

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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