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
- 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.
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.
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).
- 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
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. Registered Nurses 540 jobs · $106,710
- 2. Medical and Health Services Managers 100 jobs · $130,400
- 3. Project Management Specialists 90 jobs · $95,640
- 4. Software Developers 80 jobs · $130,120
- 5. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 80 jobs · $128,380
- 6. Financial Managers 70 jobs · $139,230
- 7. Dental Hygienists 60 jobs · $116,210
- 8. Physical Therapists 60 jobs · $106,550
- 9. Nurse Practitioners 50 jobs · $148,160
- 10. Pharmacists 50 jobs · $142,090
- 11. Sales Managers 50 jobs · $126,900
- 12. Industrial Production Managers 50 jobs · $99,620
- 13. Loan Officers 50 jobs · $94,220
- 14. Physicians, All Other 40 jobs · $460,430
- 15. Computer and Information Systems Managers 40 jobs · $167,860
- 16. Managers, All Other 40 jobs · $124,190
- 17. Administrative Services Managers 40 jobs · $106,670
- 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
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
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Packers and Packagers, Hand | $31,400 |
| Automotive and Watercraft Service Attendants | $31,900 |
| Driver/Sales Workers | $32,830 |
| Cashiers | $34,080 |
| Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse | $34,150 |
| Food Servers, Nonrestaurant | $34,730 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $34,900 |
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $35,320 |
| Dishwashers | $35,410 |
| Food Preparation Workers | $35,430 |
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.
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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How to use Grants Pass, OR wage figures in a real decision
- Physicians, All Other leads published medians in Grants Pass, OR at $460,430/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Physicians, All Other
- The employment-weighted published-row mean of $57,067 adjusts to about $58,375 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 97.8. Salary vs cost of living
- Compare this metropolitan statistical area against the statewide occupation table for OR 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.