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.
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.
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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How to use Harrisonburg, VA wage figures in a real decision
- Chief Executives leads published medians in Harrisonburg, VA at $264,970/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Chief Executives
- The employment-weighted published-row mean of $55,459 adjusts to about $58,444 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 94.9. Salary vs cost of living
- Compare this metropolitan statistical area against the statewide occupation table for VA 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.