Huntsville, AL Salaries
Highest published occupation medians in Huntsville, AL - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Huntsville, AL moved from $50,470 in May 2024 to $51,740 in May 2025 (+2.5%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Huntsville, AL sits -0.6 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.
Business Operations Specialists, All Other shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Huntsville, AL
Business Operations Specialists, All Other publishes $124,950 here versus $83,050 nationally (+50.5%; 3,100metro-area jobs). Next is Logisticians at $117,060 locally versus $82,320 nationally (+42.2%).
- Business Operations Specialists, All Other$124,950 in Huntsville, AL sits 50.5% above the national Business Operations Specialists, All Other median of $83,050 (3,100 published local jobs).
- Logisticians$117,060 in Huntsville, AL sits 42.2% above the national Logisticians median of $82,320 (2,780 published local jobs).
- General and Operations Managers$136,340 in Huntsville, AL sits 28.9% above the national General and Operations Managers median of $105,770 (4,050 published local jobs).
- Engineers, All Other$155,630 in Huntsville, AL sits 26.6% above the national Engineers, All Other median of $122,930 (3,110 published local jobs).
Business Operations Specialists, All Other and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Huntsville, AL; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 26620 · Huntsville, AL $71K mean
MEAN-MEGA · RPP-LOW · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-FULL
- MEAN-MEGA #38/528
- RPP-LOW 93.1
- OCC-MID 388 occs
- TOP-LEAD Physicians, Al… · $357K
- EMP-MIX Aerospace En…
- TREND-INLINE -0.6 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Albany-Schenecta…
- BOOK-FULL 378 rows · May 2025
Read with Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY (+$1 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 Huntsville, AL
Employment scale inside Huntsville, AL's top-pay list
Aerospace Engineers and General and Operations Managers lead published employment inside Huntsville, AL's top-pay sample, order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Aerospace Engineers 4,880 jobs · $131,090
- 2. General and Operations Managers 4,050 jobs · $136,340
- 3. Engineers, All Other 3,110 jobs · $155,630
- 4. Computer and Information Systems Managers 2,250 jobs · $164,060
- 5. Computer Network Architects 1,660 jobs · $132,410
- 6. Architectural and Engineering Managers 1,630 jobs · $168,380
- 7. Financial Managers 890 jobs · $158,620
- 8. Electronics Engineers, Except Computer 890 jobs · $133,330
- 9. Lawyers 730 jobs · $133,220
- 10. Sales Managers 660 jobs · $134,690
- 11. Pharmacists 600 jobs · $136,840
- 12. Managers, All Other 570 jobs · $153,920
- 13. Computer Hardware Engineers 560 jobs · $142,670
- 14. Purchasing Managers 520 jobs · $146,970
- 15. Industrial Production Managers 440 jobs · $136,240
- 16. Physicians, All Other 430 jobs · $357,010
- 17. Operations Research Analysts 350 jobs · $132,000
- 18. Nurse Anesthetists 280 jobs · $213,590
Occupations Tracked
388
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$71,155
employment-weighted, 378 complete rows
Top Salary
$357,010
Physicians, All Other
Cost of Living
93.1
7% below US avg
Highest Paying Jobs in Huntsville, AL
| # | Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Physicians, All Other | $357,010 |
| 2 | Nurse Anesthetists | $213,590 |
| 3 | Chief Executives | $213,530 |
| 4 | Family Medicine Physicians | $206,750 |
| 5 | Architectural and Engineering Managers | $168,380 |
| 6 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $164,060 |
| 7 | Optometrists | $161,170 |
| 8 | Financial Managers | $158,620 |
| 9 | Engineers, All Other | $155,630 |
| 10 | Managers, All Other | $153,920 |
| 11 | Physicists | $149,990 |
| 12 | Purchasing Managers | $146,970 |
| 13 | Computer Hardware Engineers | $142,670 |
| 14 | Physical Scientists, All Other | $142,650 |
| 15 | Public Relations Managers | $138,130 |
| 16 | Pharmacists | $136,840 |
| 17 | General and Operations Managers | $136,340 |
| 18 | Industrial Production Managers | $136,240 |
| 19 | Marketing Managers | $134,990 |
| 20 | Sales Managers | $134,690 |
| 21 | Electronics Engineers, Except Computer | $133,330 |
| 22 | Lawyers | $133,220 |
| 23 | Computer Network Architects | $132,410 |
| 24 | Operations Research Analysts | $132,000 |
| 25 | Aerospace Engineers | $131,090 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in Huntsville, AL
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Bus Drivers, School | $18,750 |
| Cooks, Short Order | $22,510 |
| Childcare Workers | $23,110 |
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $23,180 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $24,010 |
| Substitute Teachers, Short-Term | $25,340 |
| Library Assistants, Clerical | $25,920 |
| Teaching Assistants, Postsecondary | $25,930 |
| Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary | $26,110 |
| Physical Therapist Aides | $26,440 |
Other BLS Wage Areas in AL
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 AL. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($71,155 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 Huntsville, AL wage figures in a real decision
- Physicians, All Other leads published medians in Huntsville, AL at $357,010/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Physicians, All Other
- The employment-weighted published-row mean of $71,155 adjusts to about $76,452 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 93.1. Salary vs cost of living
- Compare this metropolitan statistical area against the statewide occupation table for AL 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.