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.
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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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.