Morristown, TN Salaries

Local wages where BEA prices sit below the US average (RPP 86.4) - 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 Morristown, TN moved from $40,320 in May 2024 to $44,280 in May 2025 (+9.8%).
  • Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
  • Morristown, TN sits +6.7 pp ahead of that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.

BLS OEWS metro wage desk

MSA 34100 · Morristown, TN $50K mean

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

  • MEAN-TRACE #469/528
  • RPP-QUIET 86.4
  • OCC-MID 207 occs
  • TOP-LEAD Physicians, Al… · $268K
  • EMP-MIX General and…
  • TREND-AHEAD +6.7 pp
  • PHOTO-FINISH Southwest Alabam…
  • BOOK-MOST 205 rows · May 2025

Read with Southwest Alabama nonmetropolitan area ($14 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 Morristown, TN

Guayama, PR · lowest mean: $32KGuayama, PR · lowest mean$32KMorristown, TN · this MSA: $50KMorristown, TN · this MSA$50KSouthwest Alabama no… · near: $50KSouthwest Alabama no… · near$50KWest Tennessee nonme… · near: $50KWest Tennessee nonme… · near$50KCentral North Caroli… · near: $50KCentral North Caroli… · near$50KSumter, SC · near: $51KSumter, SC · near$51KSan Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · highest mean: $119KSan Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · high…$119K
Read the chart as text
Label Value
Guayama, PR · lowest mean $32K
Morristown, TN · this MSA $50K
Southwest Alabama no… · near $50K
West Tennessee nonme… · near $50K
Central North Caroli… · near $50K
Sumter, SC · near $51K
San Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · highest mean $119K

Where Morristown, TN already employs the upper wage tier

General and Operations Managers and Industrial Production Managers lead published employment inside Morristown, TN's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.

  1. 1. General and Operations Managers 670 jobs · $93,420
  2. 2. Industrial Production Managers 150 jobs · $123,510
  3. 3. Industrial Engineers 140 jobs · $97,310
  4. 4. Financial Managers 130 jobs · $122,850
  5. 5. Pharmacists 120 jobs · $129,410
  6. 6. Nurse Practitioners 120 jobs · $105,560
  7. 7. Sales Managers 110 jobs · $105,760
  8. 8. Physical Therapists 80 jobs · $97,150
  9. 9. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 80 jobs · $95,430
  10. 10. Lawyers 70 jobs · $115,230
  11. 11. Construction Managers 70 jobs · $99,970
  12. 12. Administrative Services Managers 60 jobs · $116,340
  13. 13. Engineers, All Other 60 jobs · $93,290
  14. 14. Chief Executives 50 jobs · $166,650
  15. 15. Computer and Information Systems Managers 50 jobs · $120,190
  16. 16. Software Developers 50 jobs · $102,390
  17. 17. Management Analysts 50 jobs · $99,290
  18. 18. Architectural and Engineering Managers 40 jobs · $136,320

Occupations Tracked

207

with wage data

Published-Row Mean

$50,481

employment-weighted, 205 complete rows

Top Salary

$267,730

Physicians, All Other

Cost of Living

86.4

14% below US avg

Price-level adjustment: Dividing the derived published-row mean of $50,481 by the metro RPP gives $58,451 on a national-price basis. This is not an after-tax income or a personal cost-of-living result.

Top-pay occupations in Morristown, TN, 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 $93,420
2 Industrial Production Managers $123,510
3 Industrial Engineers $97,310
4 Financial Managers $122,850
5 Pharmacists $129,410
6 Nurse Practitioners $105,560
7 Sales Managers $105,760
8 Physical Therapists $97,150
9 Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary $95,430
10 Lawyers $115,230
11 Construction Managers $99,970
12 Administrative Services Managers $116,340
13 Engineers, All Other $93,290
14 Chief Executives $166,650
15 Computer and Information Systems Managers $120,190
16 Software Developers $102,390
17 Management Analysts $99,290
18 Architectural and Engineering Managers $136,320
19 Marketing Managers $129,010
20 Human Resources Managers $109,010
21 Occupational Therapists $93,010
22 Physicians, All Other $267,730
23 Veterinarians $106,950
24 Physician Assistants $103,350
25 Electrical Engineers $100,240

Lowest Paying Jobs in Morristown, TN

Other BLS Wage Areas in TN

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 TN. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($50,481 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 Morristown, TN wage reading?
The employment-weighted published-row mean across 205 occupation rows is $50,481/year (BLS OEWS May 2025). BEA RPP 86.4 puts local prices 14% below the US average, so the same mean reads as $58,451 in national-price terms. Page lists 207 occupations with a published median — a different denominator. The top-tier median average of the 25 highest-paying rows is $117,175.
What is the highest paying job in Morristown, TN?
The highest paying occupation in Morristown, TN is Physicians, All Other with a median salary of $267,730/year. The second highest is Chief Executives at $166,650/year.
What jobs pay the least in Morristown, TN?
The lowest paying occupation in Morristown, TN is Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service Workers with a median salary of $20,720/year according to BLS data.
Which federal tables feed Morristown, TN'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.

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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