Harrisonburg, VA Salaries
Highest published occupation medians in Harrisonburg, VA - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Harrisonburg, VA moved from $45,610 in May 2024 to $46,110 in May 2025 (+1.1%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Harrisonburg, VA sits -2.0 pp behind that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
Fast Food and Counter Workers shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Harrisonburg, VA
Fast Food and Counter Workers publishes $29,240 here versus $31,200 nationally (-6.3%; 2,590metro-area jobs).
- Fast Food and Counter Workers$29,240 in Harrisonburg, VA sits 6.3% below the national Fast Food and Counter Workers median of $31,200 (2,590 published local jobs).
Fast Food and Counter Workers and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Harrisonburg, VA; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 25500 · Harrisonburg, VA $55K mean
MEAN-LOW · RPP-LOW · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-BEHIND · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST
- MEAN-LOW #337/528
- RPP-LOW 94.9
- OCC-MID 257 occs
- TOP-LEAD Chief Executives · $265K
- EMP-MIX Sales Repres…
- TREND-BEHIND -2.0 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Elizabethtown, KY
- BOOK-MOST 247 rows · May 2025
Read with Elizabethtown, KY ($49 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 Harrisonburg, VA
Employment scale inside Harrisonburg, VA's top-pay list
Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products and Software Developers lead published employment inside Harrisonburg, VA's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products 440 jobs · $129,960
- 2. Software Developers 220 jobs · $119,250
- 3. Education Administrators, Postsecondary 170 jobs · $134,270
- 4. Financial Managers 140 jobs · $148,200
- 5. Sales Managers 130 jobs · $157,260
- 6. Pharmacists 130 jobs · $136,150
- 7. Lawyers 130 jobs · $127,070
- 8. Medical and Health Services Managers 110 jobs · $109,840
- 9. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 110 jobs · $104,960
- 10. Nurse Practitioners 90 jobs · $122,340
- 11. Managers, All Other 80 jobs · $128,410
- 12. Dentists, General 70 jobs · $159,220
- 13. Industrial Production Managers 70 jobs · $136,090
- 14. Computer Science Teachers, Postsecondary 70 jobs · $131,970
- 15. Physicians, All Other 50 jobs · $197,580
- 16. Computer and Information Systems Managers 50 jobs · $150,560
- 17. Human Resources Managers 50 jobs · $130,590
- 18. Veterinarians 50 jobs · $119,990
Occupations Tracked
257
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$55,459
employment-weighted, 247 complete rows
Top Salary
$264,970
Chief Executives
Cost of Living
94.9
5% below US avg
Highest Paying Jobs in Harrisonburg, VA
Lowest Paying Jobs in Harrisonburg, VA
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| File Clerks | $25,810 |
| Coaches and Scouts | $25,810 |
| Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and Cosmetologists | $27,730 |
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $28,390 |
| Automotive and Watercraft Service Attendants | $28,490 |
| Cooks, Fast Food | $28,680 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $28,690 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $28,760 |
| Home Health and Personal Care Aides | $28,820 |
| Cashiers | $28,980 |
Other BLS Wage Areas in VA
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 VA. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($55,459 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.