Mobile, AL Salaries
Local wages where BEA prices sit below the US average (RPP 88.1) - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Mobile, AL moved from $44,600 in May 2024 to $47,000 in May 2025 (+5.4%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Mobile, AL sits +2.3 pp ahead of that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
Nursing Assistants shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Mobile, AL
Nursing Assistants publishes $30,880 here versus $42,260 nationally (-26.9%; 2,100metro-area jobs). Next is Fast Food and Counter Workers at $23,510 locally versus $31,200 nationally (-24.6%).
- Nursing Assistants$30,880 in Mobile, AL sits 26.9% below the national Nursing Assistants median of $42,260 (2,100 published local jobs).
- Fast Food and Counter Workers$23,510 in Mobile, AL sits 24.6% below the national Fast Food and Counter Workers median of $31,200 (3,160 published local jobs).
- Waiters and Waitresses$26,860 in Mobile, AL sits 23.8% below the national Waiters and Waitresses median of $35,230 (2,510 published local jobs).
- Construction Laborers$36,830 in Mobile, AL sits 21.8% below the national Construction Laborers median of $47,120 (2,050 published local jobs).
Nursing Assistants and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Mobile, AL; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 33660 · Mobile, AL $57K mean
MEAN-LOW · RPP-LOW · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-AHEAD · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-FULL
- MEAN-LOW #285/528
- RPP-LOW 88.1
- OCC-MID 372 occs
- TOP-LEAD Physicians, Al… · $375K
- EMP-MIX Software Dev…
- TREND-AHEAD +2.3 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Spartanburg, SC
- BOOK-FULL 370 rows · May 2025
Read with Spartanburg, SC (+$4 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 Mobile, AL
Where Mobile, AL already employs the upper wage tier
Software Developers and Civil Engineers lead published employment inside Mobile, AL's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Software Developers 1,050 jobs · $122,540
- 2. Civil Engineers 790 jobs · $107,810
- 3. Lawyers 560 jobs · $130,490
- 4. Financial Managers 530 jobs · $135,780
- 5. Computer and Information Systems Managers 500 jobs · $137,650
- 6. Pharmacists 440 jobs · $134,570
- 7. Sales Managers 380 jobs · $124,050
- 8. Architectural and Engineering Managers 370 jobs · $164,020
- 9. Physicians, All Other 340 jobs · $375,250
- 10. Industrial Production Managers 290 jobs · $128,770
- 11. Computer Network Architects 180 jobs · $126,080
- 12. Information Security Analysts 170 jobs · $121,810
- 13. Human Resources Managers 160 jobs · $110,250
- 14. Chemical Engineers 150 jobs · $137,170
- 15. Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers 150 jobs · $118,990
- 16. Electronics Engineers, Except Computer 130 jobs · $114,610
- 17. Purchasing Managers 120 jobs · $125,500
- 18. Dentists, General 100 jobs · $207,010
Occupations Tracked
372
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$57,214
employment-weighted, 370 complete rows
Top Salary
$375,250
Physicians, All Other
Cost of Living
88.1
12% below US avg
Top-pay occupations in Mobile, AL, 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 | $122,540 |
| 2 | Civil Engineers | $107,810 |
| 3 | Lawyers | $130,490 |
| 4 | Financial Managers | $135,780 |
| 5 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $137,650 |
| 6 | Pharmacists | $134,570 |
| 7 | Sales Managers | $124,050 |
| 8 | Architectural and Engineering Managers | $164,020 |
| 9 | Physicians, All Other | $375,250 |
| 10 | Industrial Production Managers | $128,770 |
| 11 | Computer Network Architects | $126,080 |
| 12 | Information Security Analysts | $121,810 |
| 13 | Human Resources Managers | $110,250 |
| 14 | Chemical Engineers | $137,170 |
| 15 | Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers | $118,990 |
| 16 | Electronics Engineers, Except Computer | $114,610 |
| 17 | Purchasing Managers | $125,500 |
| 18 | Dentists, General | $207,010 |
| 19 | Managers, All Other | $126,440 |
| 20 | Facilities Managers | $127,420 |
| 21 | Chief Executives | $171,130 |
| 22 | Commercial Pilots | $137,960 |
| 23 | Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers | $176,620 |
| 24 | Natural Sciences Managers | $119,430 |
| 25 | Engineers, All Other | $114,850 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in Mobile, AL
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Bus Drivers, School | $18,000 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $22,180 |
| Childcare Workers | $22,350 |
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $22,770 |
| Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary | $23,400 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $23,510 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $25,070 |
| Physical Therapist Aides | $25,690 |
| Substitute Teachers, Short-Term | $25,720 |
| Tour and Travel Guides | $26,450 |
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 ($57,214 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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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.