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
- 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.
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 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
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. General and Operations Managers 690 jobs · $88,780
- 2. Medical and Health Services Managers 170 jobs · $103,130
- 3. Project Management Specialists 160 jobs · $83,580
- 4. Nurse Practitioners 150 jobs · $130,330
- 5. Lawyers 140 jobs · $106,450
- 6. Construction Managers 140 jobs · $101,910
- 7. Pharmacists 90 jobs · $136,560
- 8. Financial Managers 90 jobs · $131,420
- 9. Dental Hygienists 90 jobs · $94,460
- 10. Computer Occupations, All Other 80 jobs · $84,450
- 11. Computer and Information Systems Managers 70 jobs · $133,670
- 12. Physician Assistants 60 jobs · $132,740
- 13. Managers, All Other 60 jobs · $131,470
- 14. Personal Financial Advisors 60 jobs · $131,270
- 15. Management Analysts 60 jobs · $95,690
- 16. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 60 jobs · $94,940
- 17. Sales Managers 50 jobs · $111,270
- 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
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
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Waiters and Waitresses | $22,270 |
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $22,990 |
| Gambling Service Workers, All Other | $23,090 |
| Bartenders | $25,310 |
| Food Preparation and Serving Related Workers, All Other | $26,500 |
| Substitute Teachers, Short-Term | $26,730 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $27,990 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $28,200 |
| Dishwashers | $28,940 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $29,550 |
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.
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 Great Falls, MT wage figures in a real decision
- Family Medicine Physicians leads published medians in Great Falls, MT at $449,840/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Family Medicine Physicians
- The employment-weighted published-row mean of $54,563 adjusts to about $56,341 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 96.8. Salary vs cost of living
- Compare this metropolitan statistical area against the statewide occupation table for MT 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.