Lynchburg, VA Salaries
Local wages where BEA prices sit below the US average (RPP 89.4) - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Lynchburg, VA moved from $45,440 in May 2024 to $46,190 in May 2025 (+1.7%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Lynchburg, VA sits -1.5 pp behind that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
Home Health and Personal Care Aides shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Lynchburg, VA
Home Health and Personal Care Aides publishes $27,810 here versus $35,800 nationally (-22.3%; 2,120metro-area jobs). Next is Registered Nurses at $80,450 locally versus $97,550 nationally (-17.5%).
- Home Health and Personal Care Aides$27,810 in Lynchburg, VA sits 22.3% below the national Home Health and Personal Care Aides median of $35,800 (2,120 published local jobs).
- Registered Nurses$80,450 in Lynchburg, VA sits 17.5% below the national Registered Nurses median of $97,550 (2,200 published local jobs).
- Stockers and Order Fillers$30,960 in Lynchburg, VA sits 17.1% below the national Stockers and Order Fillers median of $37,330 (2,080 published local jobs).
- Retail Salespersons$30,570 in Lynchburg, VA sits 13.7% below the national Retail Salespersons median of $35,410 (2,950 published local jobs).
Home Health and Personal Care Aides and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Lynchburg, VA; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 31340 · Lynchburg, VA $56K mean
MEAN-LOW · RPP-LOW · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-FULL
- MEAN-LOW #317/528
- RPP-LOW 89.4
- OCC-MID 310 occs
- TOP-LEAD Physicians, Al… · $274K
- EMP-MIX Software Dev…
- TREND-INLINE -1.5 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Southern Ohio no…
- BOOK-FULL 308 rows · May 2025
Read with Southern Ohio nonmetropolitan area ($8 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 Lynchburg, VA
Where Lynchburg, VA already employs the upper wage tier
Software Developers and Medical and Health Services Managers lead published employment inside Lynchburg, VA's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Software Developers 510 jobs · $109,840
- 2. Medical and Health Services Managers 320 jobs · $129,320
- 3. Lawyers 250 jobs · $122,110
- 4. Nurse Practitioners 250 jobs · $120,710
- 5. Financial Managers 220 jobs · $155,370
- 6. Pharmacists 190 jobs · $144,090
- 7. Computer and Information Systems Managers 180 jobs · $166,840
- 8. Industrial Production Managers 180 jobs · $129,640
- 9. Chief Executives 160 jobs · $219,400
- 10. Physicians, All Other 130 jobs · $273,740
- 11. Physician Assistants 130 jobs · $122,800
- 12. Family Medicine Physicians 120 jobs · $177,430
- 13. Managers, All Other 120 jobs · $130,580
- 14. Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products 120 jobs · $122,560
- 15. Sales Managers 110 jobs · $149,990
- 16. Architectural and Engineering Managers 100 jobs · $152,360
- 17. Information Security Analysts 90 jobs · $121,340
- 18. Dentists, General 80 jobs · $167,440
Occupations Tracked
310
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$56,301
employment-weighted, 308 complete rows
Top Salary
$273,740
Physicians, All Other
Cost of Living
89.4
11% below US avg
Top-pay occupations in Lynchburg, VA, 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 | Software Developers | $109,840 |
| 2 | Medical and Health Services Managers | $129,320 |
| 3 | Lawyers | $122,110 |
| 4 | Nurse Practitioners | $120,710 |
| 5 | Financial Managers | $155,370 |
| 6 | Pharmacists | $144,090 |
| 7 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $166,840 |
| 8 | Industrial Production Managers | $129,640 |
| 9 | Chief Executives | $219,400 |
| 10 | Physicians, All Other | $273,740 |
| 11 | Physician Assistants | $122,800 |
| 12 | Family Medicine Physicians | $177,430 |
| 13 | Managers, All Other | $130,580 |
| 14 | Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products | $122,560 |
| 15 | Sales Managers | $149,990 |
| 16 | Architectural and Engineering Managers | $152,360 |
| 17 | Information Security Analysts | $121,340 |
| 18 | Dentists, General | $167,440 |
| 19 | Human Resources Managers | $136,100 |
| 20 | Facilities Managers | $113,940 |
| 21 | Computer Network Architects | $108,940 |
| 22 | Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers | $116,000 |
| 23 | Marketing Managers | $159,490 |
| 24 | Optometrists | $128,010 |
| 25 | Purchasing Managers | $125,110 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in Lynchburg, VA
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Information and Record Clerks, All Other | $26,350 |
| Substitute Teachers, Short-Term | $27,360 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $27,430 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $27,750 |
| Home Health and Personal Care Aides | $27,810 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $28,220 |
| Funeral Attendants | $28,300 |
| Cashiers | $28,390 |
| Automotive and Watercraft Service Attendants | $28,650 |
| Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service Workers | $28,650 |
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 ($56,301 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.