Johnstown, PA Salaries

Local wages where BEA prices sit below the US average (RPP 85.9) - BLS OEWS May 2025

Observed metro pay change

What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025

May 2024 → May 2025
  • BLS's published All Occupations median in Johnstown, PA moved from $42,020 in May 2024 to $44,110 in May 2025 (+5.0%).
  • Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
  • Johnstown, PA sits +1.9 pp ahead of that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.

BLS OEWS metro wage desk

MSA 27780 · Johnstown, PA $52K mean

MEAN-TRACE · RPP-QUIET · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST

  • MEAN-TRACE #437/528
  • RPP-QUIET 85.9
  • OCC-MID 231 occs
  • TOP-LEAD Family Medicin… · $337K
  • EMP-MIX General and…
  • TREND-INLINE +1.9 pp
  • PHOTO-FINISH Gulfport-Biloxi,…
  • BOOK-MOST 231 rows · May 2025

Read with Gulfport-Biloxi, MS ($51 on published-row mean) · Salary vs. cost of living

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 Johnstown, PA

Guayama, PR · lowest mean: $32KGuayama, PR · lowest mean$32KJohnstown, PA · this MSA: $52KJohnstown, PA · this MSA$52KGulfport-Biloxi, MS · near: $52KGulfport-Biloxi, MS · near$52KTwin Falls, ID · near: $52KTwin Falls, ID · near$52KNorthwest Nebraska n… · near: $52KNorthwest Nebraska n… · near$52KClarksville, TN-KY · near: $52KClarksville, TN-KY · near$52KSan Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · highest mean: $119KSan Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · high…$119K
Read the chart as text
Label Value
Guayama, PR · lowest mean $32K
Johnstown, PA · this MSA $52K
Gulfport-Biloxi, MS · near $52K
Twin Falls, ID · near $52K
Northwest Nebraska n… · near $52K
Clarksville, TN-KY · near $52K
San Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · highest mean $119K

Where Johnstown, PA already employs the upper wage tier

General and Operations Managers and Medical and Health Services Managers lead published employment inside Johnstown, PA's top-pay sample, order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.

  1. 1. General and Operations Managers 1,150 jobs · $86,370
  2. 2. Medical and Health Services Managers 240 jobs · $92,550
  3. 3. Physicians, All Other 220 jobs · $178,240
  4. 4. Financial Managers 200 jobs · $102,420
  5. 5. Software Developers 140 jobs · $100,340
  6. 6. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 130 jobs · $101,720
  7. 7. Physical Therapists 130 jobs · $97,870
  8. 8. Pharmacists 100 jobs · $133,890
  9. 9. Nurse Practitioners 90 jobs · $115,950
  10. 10. Sales Managers 90 jobs · $85,220
  11. 11. Chief Executives 80 jobs · $153,570
  12. 12. Architectural and Engineering Managers 80 jobs · $131,610
  13. 13. Physician Assistants 80 jobs · $129,800
  14. 14. Managers, All Other 80 jobs · $125,820
  15. 15. Computer and Information Systems Managers 80 jobs · $123,750
  16. 16. Lawyers 80 jobs · $93,710
  17. 17. Industrial Engineers 80 jobs · $86,130
  18. 18. Personal Financial Advisors 60 jobs · $95,240

Occupations Tracked

231

with wage data

Published-Row Mean

$52,215

employment-weighted, 231 complete rows

Top Salary

$336,650

Family Medicine Physicians

Cost of Living

85.9

14% below US avg

Price-level adjustment: Dividing the derived published-row mean of $52,215 by the metro RPP gives $60,765 on a national-price basis. This is not an after-tax income or a personal cost-of-living result.

Top-pay occupations in Johnstown, PA, by employment

Same top-pay sample as the salary ranking, sorted by published local jobs so the title sequence follows the OEWS mix.

# Occupation Median Salary
1 General and Operations Managers $86,370
2 Medical and Health Services Managers $92,550
3 Physicians, All Other $178,240
4 Financial Managers $102,420
5 Software Developers $100,340
6 Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary $101,720
7 Physical Therapists $97,870
8 Pharmacists $133,890
9 Nurse Practitioners $115,950
10 Sales Managers $85,220
11 Chief Executives $153,570
12 Architectural and Engineering Managers $131,610
13 Physician Assistants $129,800
14 Managers, All Other $125,820
15 Computer and Information Systems Managers $123,750
16 Lawyers $93,710
17 Industrial Engineers $86,130
18 Personal Financial Advisors $95,240
19 Industrial Production Managers $92,670
20 Electrical Engineers $118,480
21 Dentists, General $127,110
22 Human Resources Managers $119,510
23 Marketing Managers $113,580
24 Computer Occupations, All Other $88,980
25 Family Medicine Physicians $336,650

Lowest Paying Jobs in Johnstown, PA

Other BLS Wage Areas in PA

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 PA. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($52,215 here) and summed published employment.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does the lower price level do to Johnstown, PA wage reading?
The employment-weighted published-row mean across 231 occupation rows is $52,215/year (BLS OEWS May 2025). BEA RPP 85.9 puts local prices 14% below the US average, so the same mean reads as $60,765 in national-price terms. Page lists 231 occupations with a published median, a different denominator. The top-tier median average of the 25 highest-paying rows is $121,247.
What is the highest paying job in Johnstown, PA?
The highest paying occupation in Johnstown, PA is Family Medicine Physicians with a median salary of $336,650/year. The second highest is Physicians, All Other at $178,240/year.
What jobs pay the least in Johnstown, PA?
The lowest paying occupation in Johnstown, PA is Dishwashers with a median salary of $21,430/year according to BLS data.
Which federal tables feed Johnstown, PA's wage and price figures?
Occupation wages are BLS OEWS May 2025 estimates for this metropolitan statistical area. The price-level figure is BEA Regional Price Parities for the matching metro area (latest published year on the page). WageDex divides the employment-weighted published-row mean by RPP only when both inputs exist; it does not substitute a national RPP.

Last updated: May 2025 (BLS OEWS annual release). Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS May 2025. Cost-of-living index: BEA Regional Price Parities, 2024.

What to do with this data

How to use Johnstown, PA wage figures in a real decision

  • Family Medicine Physicians leads published medians in Johnstown, PA at $336,650/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Family Medicine Physicians
  • The employment-weighted published-row mean of $52,215 adjusts to about $60,765 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 85.9. Salary vs cost of living
  • Compare this metropolitan statistical area against the statewide occupation table for PA 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.

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