Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC Salaries
Highest published occupation medians in Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC moved from $44,920 in May 2024 to $46,580 in May 2025 (+3.7%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC 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.
Waiters and Waitresses shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC
Waiters and Waitresses publishes $19,950 here versus $35,230 nationally (-43.4%; 9,090metro-area jobs). Next is Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel at $51,460 locally versus $69,990 nationally (-26.5%).
- Waiters and Waitresses$19,950 in Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC sits 43.4% below the national Waiters and Waitresses median of $35,230 (9,090 published local jobs).
- Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel$51,460 in Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC sits 26.5% below the national Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel median of $69,990 (4,300 published local jobs).
- Office Clerks, General$36,030 in Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC sits 20.0% below the national Office Clerks, General median of $45,010 (8,410 published local jobs).
- Home Health and Personal Care Aides$29,800 in Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC sits 16.8% below the national Home Health and Personal Care Aides median of $35,800 (8,190 published local jobs).
Waiters and Waitresses and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 24860 · Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC $58K mean
MEAN-MID · RPP-LOW · OCC-MOST · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-FULL
- MEAN-MID #257/528
- RPP-LOW 93.3
- OCC-MOST 506 occs
- TOP-LEAD Surgeons, All… · $631K
- EMP-MIX Financial Ma…
- TREND-INLINE +0.6 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Jackson, MI
- BOOK-FULL 493 rows · May 2025
Read with Jackson, MI ($17 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 Greenville-Anderson-Greer
Employment scale inside Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC's top-pay list
Financial Managers and Sales Managers lead published employment inside Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC's top-pay sample, order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Financial Managers 1,880 jobs · $145,610
- 2. Sales Managers 1,770 jobs · $129,090
- 3. Industrial Production Managers 1,510 jobs · $129,490
- 4. Architectural and Engineering Managers 900 jobs · $160,900
- 5. Pharmacists 900 jobs · $135,580
- 6. Computer and Information Systems Managers 870 jobs · $161,180
- 7. Marketing Managers 720 jobs · $148,480
- 8. Dentists, General 540 jobs · $139,940
- 9. Human Resources Managers 480 jobs · $126,550
- 10. Computer Network Architects 390 jobs · $161,170
- 11. Physicians, All Other 380 jobs · $249,480
- 12. Managers, All Other 320 jobs · $136,820
- 13. Family Medicine Physicians 310 jobs · $231,790
- 14. Chief Executives 300 jobs · $166,420
- 15. Pediatricians, General 180 jobs · $227,540
- 16. Purchasing Managers 140 jobs · $128,670
- 17. Natural Sciences Managers 120 jobs · $133,790
- 18. Surgeons, All Other 70 jobs · $630,540
Occupations Tracked
506
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$58,221
employment-weighted, 493 complete rows
Top Salary
$630,540
Surgeons, All Other
Cost of Living
93.3
7% below US avg
Highest Paying Jobs in Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC
| # | Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Surgeons, All Other | $630,540 |
| 2 | Physicians, All Other | $249,480 |
| 3 | Psychiatrists | $247,450 |
| 4 | Family Medicine Physicians | $231,790 |
| 5 | Nurse Anesthetists | $229,740 |
| 6 | Pediatricians, General | $227,540 |
| 7 | Chief Executives | $166,420 |
| 8 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $161,180 |
| 9 | Computer Network Architects | $161,170 |
| 10 | Architectural and Engineering Managers | $160,900 |
| 11 | Advertising and Promotions Managers | $150,000 |
| 12 | Optometrists | $149,380 |
| 13 | Marketing Managers | $148,480 |
| 14 | Financial Managers | $145,610 |
| 15 | Dentists, General | $139,940 |
| 16 | Managers, All Other | $136,820 |
| 17 | Pharmacists | $135,580 |
| 18 | Natural Sciences Managers | $133,790 |
| 19 | Administrative Services Managers | $130,330 |
| 20 | Industrial Production Managers | $129,490 |
| 21 | Nurse Midwives | $129,360 |
| 22 | Sales Managers | $129,090 |
| 23 | Purchasing Managers | $128,670 |
| 24 | Physicists | $128,040 |
| 25 | Human Resources Managers | $126,550 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Bartenders | $19,600 |
| Waiters and Waitresses | $19,950 |
| Driver/Sales Workers | $21,180 |
| Food Preparation and Serving Related Workers, All Other | $21,370 |
| Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service Workers | $23,450 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $24,720 |
| Bailiffs | $25,230 |
| Residential Advisors | $25,490 |
| Motor Vehicle Operators, All Other | $25,770 |
| School Bus Monitors | $26,240 |
Other BLS Wage Areas in SC
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 SC. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($58,221 here) and summed published employment.
Similar mean wage
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 Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC wage figures in a real decision
- Surgeons, All Other leads published medians in Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC at $630,540/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Surgeons, All Other
- The employment-weighted published-row mean of $58,221 adjusts to about $62,429 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 93.3. Salary vs cost of living
- Compare this metropolitan statistical area against the statewide occupation table for SC 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.