Montgomery, AL Salaries
Local wages where BEA prices sit below the US average (RPP 89.7) - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Montgomery, AL moved from $42,600 in May 2024 to $44,950 in May 2025 (+5.5%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Montgomery, AL sits +2.4 pp ahead of that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
Fast Food and Counter Workers shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Montgomery, AL
Fast Food and Counter Workers publishes $22,960 here versus $31,200 nationally (-26.4%; 3,170metro-area jobs). Next is Waiters and Waitresses at $26,360 locally versus $35,230 nationally (-25.2%).
- Fast Food and Counter Workers$22,960 in Montgomery, AL sits 26.4% below the national Fast Food and Counter Workers median of $31,200 (3,170 published local jobs).
- Waiters and Waitresses$26,360 in Montgomery, AL sits 25.2% below the national Waiters and Waitresses median of $35,230 (2,300 published local jobs).
- Registered Nurses$79,570 in Montgomery, AL sits 18.4% below the national Registered Nurses median of $97,550 (3,990 published local jobs).
- Customer Service Representatives$36,960 in Montgomery, AL sits 17.4% below the national Customer Service Representatives median of $44,770 (2,500 published local jobs).
Fast Food and Counter Workers and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Montgomery, AL; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 33860 · Montgomery, AL $55K mean
MEAN-LOW · RPP-LOW · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-AHEAD · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-FULL
- MEAN-LOW #367/528
- RPP-LOW 89.7
- OCC-MID 373 occs
- TOP-LEAD Physicians, Al… · $285K
- EMP-MIX General and…
- TREND-AHEAD +2.4 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH St. George, UT
- BOOK-FULL 366 rows · May 2025
Read with St. George, UT (+$20 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 Montgomery, AL
Where Montgomery, AL already employs the upper wage tier
General and Operations Managers and Lawyers lead published employment inside Montgomery, AL's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. General and Operations Managers 2,230 jobs · $107,980
- 2. Lawyers 960 jobs · $125,290
- 3. Software Developers 780 jobs · $110,620
- 4. Computer Occupations, All Other 740 jobs · $109,300
- 5. Financial Managers 650 jobs · $131,570
- 6. Computer and Information Systems Managers 570 jobs · $134,810
- 7. Pharmacists 430 jobs · $136,620
- 8. Managers, All Other 370 jobs · $116,170
- 9. Nurse Practitioners 330 jobs · $105,050
- 10. Physicians, All Other 300 jobs · $285,260
- 11. Computer Network Architects 230 jobs · $124,120
- 12. Information Security Analysts 220 jobs · $113,270
- 13. Electrical Engineers 200 jobs · $104,990
- 14. Industrial Production Managers 190 jobs · $119,990
- 15. Architectural and Engineering Managers 160 jobs · $156,490
- 16. Purchasing Managers 110 jobs · $121,250
- 17. Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers 80 jobs · $108,760
- 18. Chief Executives 70 jobs · $155,700
Occupations Tracked
373
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$54,726
employment-weighted, 366 complete rows
Top Salary
$285,260
Physicians, All Other
Cost of Living
89.7
10% below US avg
Top-pay occupations in Montgomery, AL, by employment
Same top-pay sample as the salary ranking, sorted by published local jobs so the title sequence follows the OEWS mix.
Lowest Paying Jobs in Montgomery, AL
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Bus Drivers, School | $17,490 |
| Crossing Guards and Flaggers | $20,380 |
| Teaching Assistants, Postsecondary | $20,500 |
| Ushers, Lobby Attendants, and Ticket Takers | $21,430 |
| Cooks, Short Order | $21,840 |
| Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service Workers | $21,940 |
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $22,500 |
| Childcare Workers | $22,720 |
| Recreation Workers | $22,740 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $22,960 |
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 ($54,726 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.