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

May 2024 → May 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.

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

Guayama, PR · lowest mean: $32KGuayama, PR · lowest mean$32KMount Vernon-Anacort… · this MSA: $70KMount Vernon-Anacort… · this…$70KDallas-Fort Worth-Ar… · near: $70KDallas-Fort Worth-Ar… · near$70KAnn Arbor, MI · near: $70KAnn Arbor, MI · near$70KSalt Lake City-Murra… · near: $71KSalt Lake City-Murra… · near$71KMadison, WI · near: $71KMadison, WI · near$71KSan Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · highest mean: $119KSan Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · high…$119K
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Label Value
Guayama, PR · lowest mean $32K
Mount Vernon-Anacort… · this MSA $70K
Dallas-Fort Worth-Ar… · near $70K
Ann Arbor, MI · near $70K
Salt Lake City-Murra… · near $71K
Madison, WI · near $71K
San Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · highest mean $119K

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. 1. General and Operations Managers 710 jobs · $126,680
  2. 2. First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers 560 jobs · $130,790
  3. 3. Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education 240 jobs · $121,190
  4. 4. Financial Managers 150 jobs · $162,080
  5. 5. Dental Hygienists 130 jobs · $127,470
  6. 6. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 120 jobs · $170,970
  7. 7. Sales Managers 120 jobs · $159,020
  8. 8. Construction Managers 110 jobs · $159,860
  9. 9. Pharmacists 110 jobs · $159,320
  10. 10. Managers, All Other 100 jobs · $143,630
  11. 11. Medical and Health Services Managers 100 jobs · $141,030
  12. 12. Industrial Engineers 100 jobs · $121,360
  13. 13. Computer and Information Systems Managers 90 jobs · $172,460
  14. 14. Architectural and Engineering Managers 90 jobs · $164,690
  15. 15. Industrial Production Managers 80 jobs · $143,990
  16. 16. Physicians, All Other 70 jobs · $271,750
  17. 17. First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives 70 jobs · $127,390
  18. 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

Price-level adjustment: Dividing the derived published-row mean of $70,366 by the metro RPP gives $68,688 on a national-price basis. This is not an after-tax income or a personal cost-of-living result.

Highest Paying Jobs in Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA

# Occupation Median Salary
1 Physicians, All Other $271,750
2 Dentists, General $212,000
3 Chief Executives $207,100
4 Computer and Information Systems Managers $172,460
5 Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary $170,970
6 Architectural and Engineering Managers $164,690
7 Financial Managers $162,080
8 Construction Managers $159,860
9 Pharmacists $159,320
10 Sales Managers $159,020
11 Veterinarians $156,980
12 Marketing Managers $155,520
13 Human Resources Managers $151,170
14 Industrial Production Managers $143,990
15 Managers, All Other $143,630
16 Nurse Practitioners $141,790
17 Medical and Health Services Managers $141,030
18 Facilities Managers $133,620
19 First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers $130,790
20 Dental Hygienists $127,470
21 First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives $127,390
22 General and Operations Managers $126,680
23 Instructional Coordinators $124,090
24 Industrial Engineers $121,360
25 Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education $121,190

Lowest Paying Jobs in Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA

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.

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 is the average salary in Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA?
Across the 250 occupation rows for Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA with both a published mean wage and employment estimate, weighting each mean by employment gives $70,366/year (BLS OEWS May 2025). The page has 250 occupations with a published median, a different denominator. This WageDex-derived benchmark is not a BLS-published All Occupations metro mean or median and does not state what a typical local worker earns. For contrast, averaging the medians of only the 25 highest-paying occupations gives $155,438, which describes the displayed top tier only.
Which published medians lead Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA?
Physicians, All Other holds the highest published median in Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA at $271,750/year (BLS OEWS May 2025). Next is Dentists, General at $212,000/year. These are occupation medians for this metropolitan statistical area, not employer offers.
What is the cost of living in Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA?
Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA has a Regional Price Parity of 102.4, meaning prices are 2% above the national average. Dividing the derived published-row mean of $70,366 by the RPP gives a national-price-equivalent benchmark of $68,688.
Where does BLS salary data for Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA come from?
All salary figures are Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS May 2025 estimates for this metropolitan statistical area. OEWS surveys approximately 1.1 million business establishments. Medians and means on this page are the published occupation-level estimates for the area — not job-board scrapes or modeled employer offers.

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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