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.
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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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.