Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA Salaries
Highest published occupation medians in Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA moved from $57,480 in May 2024 to $59,590 in May 2025 (+3.7%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA sits +0.6 pp ahead of that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
Based on wage level, year-over-year wage growth, and regional-price-parity-adjusted purchasing power from BLS and BEA sources, not job availability, industry mix, or day-to-day livability.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 34580 · Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA $70K mean
MEAN-MEGA · RPP-MID · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST
- MEAN-MEGA #45/528
- RPP-MID 102.4
- OCC-MID 250 occs
- TOP-LEAD Physicians, Al… · $272K
- EMP-MIX General and…
- TREND-INLINE +0.6 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Dallas-Fort Wort…
- BOOK-MOST 250 rows · May 2025
Read with Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX (+$1 on published-row mean) · Highest-paying careers
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 Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA
Employment scale inside Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA's top-pay list
General and Operations Managers and First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers lead published employment inside Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA's top-pay sample, order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. General and Operations Managers 710 jobs · $126,680
- 2. First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers 560 jobs · $130,790
- 3. Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education 240 jobs · $121,190
- 4. Financial Managers 150 jobs · $162,080
- 5. Dental Hygienists 130 jobs · $127,470
- 6. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 120 jobs · $170,970
- 7. Sales Managers 120 jobs · $159,020
- 8. Construction Managers 110 jobs · $159,860
- 9. Pharmacists 110 jobs · $159,320
- 10. Managers, All Other 100 jobs · $143,630
- 11. Medical and Health Services Managers 100 jobs · $141,030
- 12. Industrial Engineers 100 jobs · $121,360
- 13. Computer and Information Systems Managers 90 jobs · $172,460
- 14. Architectural and Engineering Managers 90 jobs · $164,690
- 15. Industrial Production Managers 80 jobs · $143,990
- 16. Physicians, All Other 70 jobs · $271,750
- 17. First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives 70 jobs · $127,390
- 18. Instructional Coordinators 70 jobs · $124,090
Occupations Tracked
250
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$70,366
employment-weighted, 250 complete rows
Top Salary
$271,750
Physicians, All Other
Cost of Living
102.4
2% above US avg
Highest Paying Jobs in Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA
Lowest Paying Jobs in Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $36,500 |
| Food Servers, Nonrestaurant | $36,520 |
| Demonstrators and Product Promoters | $36,660 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $36,890 |
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $37,420 |
| Dishwashers | $37,710 |
| Food Preparation Workers | $37,740 |
| Cooks, Fast Food | $37,850 |
| Cashiers | $37,960 |
| Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners | $38,020 |
Other BLS Wage Areas in WA
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 WA. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($70,366 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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How to use Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA wage figures in a real decision
- Physicians, All Other leads published medians in Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA at $271,750/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Physicians, All Other
- The employment-weighted published-row mean of $70,366 adjusts to about $68,688 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 102.4. Salary vs cost of living
- Compare this metropolitan statistical area against the statewide occupation table for WA 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.