Great Falls, MT Salaries

Highest published occupation medians in Great Falls, MT - 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 Great Falls, MT moved from $44,770 in May 2024 to $46,510 in May 2025 (+3.9%).
  • Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
  • Great Falls, MT sits +0.8 pp ahead of that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.

BLS OEWS metro wage desk

MSA 24500 · Great Falls, MT $55K mean

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

  • MEAN-LOW #369/528
  • RPP-MID 96.8
  • OCC-MID 212 occs
  • TOP-LEAD Family Medicin… · $450K
  • EMP-MIX General and…
  • TREND-INLINE +0.8 pp
  • PHOTO-FINISH Bay City, MI
  • BOOK-MOST 209 rows · May 2025

Read with Bay City, MI (+$6 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 Great Falls, MT

Guayama, PR · lowest mean: $32KGuayama, PR · lowest mean$32KSherman-Denison, TX · near: $54KSherman-Denison, TX · near$54KGreat Falls, MT · this MSA: $55KGreat Falls, MT · this MSA$55KBay City, MI · near: $55KBay City, MI · near$55KManhattan, KS · near: $55KManhattan, KS · near$55KNorthwestern Idaho n… · near: $55KNorthwestern Idaho n… · near$55KSan Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · highest mean: $119KSan Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · high…$119K
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Label Value
Guayama, PR · lowest mean $32K
Sherman-Denison, TX · near $54K
Great Falls, MT · this MSA $55K
Bay City, MI · near $55K
Manhattan, KS · near $55K
Northwestern Idaho n… · near $55K
San Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · highest mean $119K

Employment scale inside Great Falls, MT's top-pay list

General and Operations Managers and Medical and Health Services Managers lead published employment inside Great Falls, MT's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.

  1. 1. General and Operations Managers 690 jobs · $88,780
  2. 2. Medical and Health Services Managers 170 jobs · $103,130
  3. 3. Project Management Specialists 160 jobs · $83,580
  4. 4. Nurse Practitioners 150 jobs · $130,330
  5. 5. Lawyers 140 jobs · $106,450
  6. 6. Construction Managers 140 jobs · $101,910
  7. 7. Pharmacists 90 jobs · $136,560
  8. 8. Financial Managers 90 jobs · $131,420
  9. 9. Dental Hygienists 90 jobs · $94,460
  10. 10. Computer Occupations, All Other 80 jobs · $84,450
  11. 11. Computer and Information Systems Managers 70 jobs · $133,670
  12. 12. Physician Assistants 60 jobs · $132,740
  13. 13. Managers, All Other 60 jobs · $131,470
  14. 14. Personal Financial Advisors 60 jobs · $131,270
  15. 15. Management Analysts 60 jobs · $95,690
  16. 16. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 60 jobs · $94,940
  17. 17. Sales Managers 50 jobs · $111,270
  18. 18. Chief Executives 40 jobs · $217,910

Occupations Tracked

212

with wage data

Published-Row Mean

$54,563

employment-weighted, 209 complete rows

Top Salary

$449,840

Family Medicine Physicians

Cost of Living

96.8

3% below US avg

Price-level adjustment: Dividing the derived published-row mean of $54,563 by the metro RPP gives $56,341 on a national-price basis. This is not an after-tax income or a personal cost-of-living result.

Highest Paying Jobs in Great Falls, MT

# Occupation Median Salary
1 Family Medicine Physicians $449,840
2 Chief Executives $217,910
3 Marketing Managers $177,930
4 Dentists, General $162,810
5 Pharmacists $136,560
6 Detectives and Criminal Investigators $136,120
7 Computer and Information Systems Managers $133,670
8 Physician Assistants $132,740
9 Managers, All Other $131,470
10 Financial Managers $131,420
11 Personal Financial Advisors $131,270
12 Nurse Practitioners $130,330
13 Sales Managers $111,270
14 Lawyers $106,450
15 Medical and Health Services Managers $103,130
16 Construction Managers $101,910
17 Engineers, All Other $98,660
18 Management Analysts $95,690
19 Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary $94,940
20 Dental Hygienists $94,460
21 Logisticians $93,640
22 General and Operations Managers $88,780
23 Computer Occupations, All Other $84,450
24 Project Management Specialists $83,580
25 Occupational Health and Safety Specialists $82,670

Lowest Paying Jobs in Great Falls, MT

Other BLS Wage Areas in MT

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 MT. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($54,563 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 Great Falls, MT?
Across the 209 occupation rows for Great Falls, MT with both a published mean wage and employment estimate, weighting each mean by employment gives $54,563/year (BLS OEWS May 2025). The page has 212 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 $132,468, which describes the displayed top tier only.
Which published medians lead Great Falls, MT?
Family Medicine Physicians holds the highest published median in Great Falls, MT at $449,840/year (BLS OEWS May 2025). Next is Chief Executives at $217,910/year. These are occupation medians for this metropolitan statistical area, not employer offers.
What is the cost of living in Great Falls, MT?
Great Falls, MT has a Regional Price Parity of 96.8, meaning prices are 3% below the national average. Dividing the derived published-row mean of $54,563 by the RPP gives a national-price-equivalent benchmark of $56,341.
Where does BLS salary data for Great Falls, MT 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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