Greensboro-High Point, NC Salaries
Highest published occupation medians in Greensboro-High Point, NC - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Greensboro-High Point, NC moved from $44,910 in May 2024 to $46,570 in May 2025 (+3.7%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Greensboro-High Point, NC sits +0.6 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.
Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Greensboro-High Point, NC
Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education publishes $58,990 here versus $72,040 nationally (-18.1%; 2,300metro-area jobs). Next is Home Health and Personal Care Aides at $29,440 locally versus $35,800 nationally (-17.8%).
- Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education$58,990 in Greensboro-High Point, NC sits 18.1% below the national Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education median of $72,040 (2,300 published local jobs).
- Home Health and Personal Care Aides$29,440 in Greensboro-High Point, NC sits 17.8% below the national Home Health and Personal Care Aides median of $35,800 (4,620 published local jobs).
- Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners$30,020 in Greensboro-High Point, NC sits 15.5% below the national Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners median of $35,510 (2,580 published local jobs).
- Registered Nurses$82,860 in Greensboro-High Point, NC sits 15.1% below the national Registered Nurses median of $97,550 (6,240 published local jobs).
Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Greensboro-High Point, NC; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 24660 · Greensboro-High Point, NC $59K mean
MEAN-MID · RPP-LOW · OCC-MOST · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-FULL
- MEAN-MID #238/528
- RPP-LOW 92.9
- OCC-MOST 499 occs
- TOP-LEAD Dermatologists · $458K
- EMP-MIX Software Dev…
- TREND-INLINE +0.6 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Grand Forks, ND-MN
- BOOK-FULL 493 rows · May 2025
Read with Grand Forks, ND-MN (+$5 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 Greensboro-High Point, NC
Employment scale inside Greensboro-High Point, NC's top-pay list
Software Developers and Financial Managers lead published employment inside Greensboro-High Point, NC's top-pay sample, order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Software Developers 1,710 jobs · $125,190
- 2. Financial Managers 1,340 jobs · $159,740
- 3. Sales Managers 1,140 jobs · $134,760
- 4. Managers, All Other 1,110 jobs · $132,890
- 5. Computer and Information Systems Managers 1,020 jobs · $163,180
- 6. Lawyers 980 jobs · $126,960
- 7. Physicians, All Other 840 jobs · $364,620
- 8. Nurse Practitioners 820 jobs · $132,230
- 9. Pharmacists 710 jobs · $138,180
- 10. Marketing Managers 650 jobs · $151,880
- 11. Personal Financial Advisors 580 jobs · $126,310
- 12. Architectural and Engineering Managers 530 jobs · $161,720
- 13. Human Resources Managers 420 jobs · $133,320
- 14. Purchasing Managers 210 jobs · $132,020
- 15. Dentists, General 190 jobs · $163,910
- 16. Veterinarians 180 jobs · $129,910
- 17. Natural Sciences Managers 170 jobs · $154,100
- 18. Chief Executives 160 jobs · $354,310
Occupations Tracked
499
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$58,596
employment-weighted, 493 complete rows
Top Salary
$457,770
Dermatologists
Cost of Living
92.9
7% below US avg
Highest Paying Jobs in Greensboro-High Point, NC
| # | Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dermatologists | $457,770 |
| 2 | Physicians, All Other | $364,620 |
| 3 | Chief Executives | $354,310 |
| 4 | Nurse Anesthetists | $297,560 |
| 5 | General Internal Medicine Physicians | $228,550 |
| 6 | Family Medicine Physicians | $207,820 |
| 7 | Dentists, General | $163,910 |
| 8 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $163,180 |
| 9 | Architectural and Engineering Managers | $161,720 |
| 10 | Financial Managers | $159,740 |
| 11 | Natural Sciences Managers | $154,100 |
| 12 | Marketing Managers | $151,880 |
| 13 | Pharmacists | $138,180 |
| 14 | Public Relations Managers | $136,490 |
| 15 | Sales Managers | $134,760 |
| 16 | Commercial Pilots | $133,870 |
| 17 | Human Resources Managers | $133,320 |
| 18 | Managers, All Other | $132,890 |
| 19 | Nurse Practitioners | $132,230 |
| 20 | Purchasing Managers | $132,020 |
| 21 | Compensation and Benefits Managers | $131,930 |
| 22 | Veterinarians | $129,910 |
| 23 | Lawyers | $126,960 |
| 24 | Personal Financial Advisors | $126,310 |
| 25 | Software Developers | $125,190 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in Greensboro-High Point, NC
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Motor Vehicle Operators, All Other | $20,820 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $23,580 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $27,460 |
| Cooks, Fast Food | $27,880 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $28,200 |
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $28,420 |
| Cashiers | $28,630 |
| Food Servers, Nonrestaurant | $29,030 |
| Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary | $29,050 |
| Food Preparation and Serving Related Workers, All Other | $29,190 |
Other BLS Wage Areas in NC
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 NC. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($58,596 here) and summed published employment.
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Nearest other metros by employment-weighted published-row annual mean wage.
Similar employment scale
Nearest headcount peers (floor 100,000 summed published jobs), distinct from the mean-wage column.
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 Greensboro-High Point, NC wage figures in a real decision
- Dermatologists leads published medians in Greensboro-High Point, NC at $457,770/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Dermatologists
- The employment-weighted published-row mean of $58,596 adjusts to about $63,098 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 92.9. Salary vs cost of living
- Compare this metropolitan statistical area against the statewide occupation table for NC 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.