Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC Salaries

Highest published occupation medians in Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC - 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 Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC moved from $36,510 in May 2024 to $37,930 in May 2025 (+3.9%).
  • Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
  • Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC sits +0.8 pp ahead of that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.

Waiters and Waitresses shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC

Waiters and Waitresses publishes $17,350 here versus $35,230 nationally (-50.8%; 6,390metro-area jobs). Next is Maintenance and Repair Workers, General at $38,770 locally versus $49,590 nationally (-21.8%).

  1. Waiters and Waitresses$17,350 in Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC sits 50.8% below the national Waiters and Waitresses median of $35,230 (6,390 published local jobs).
  2. Maintenance and Repair Workers, General$38,770 in Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC sits 21.8% below the national Maintenance and Repair Workers, General median of $49,590 (2,080 published local jobs).
  3. Office Clerks, General$36,190 in Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC sits 19.6% below the national Office Clerks, General median of $45,010 (2,510 published local jobs).
  4. Customer Service Representatives$36,510 in Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC sits 18.4% below the national Customer Service Representatives median of $44,770 (2,950 published local jobs).

Waiters and Waitresses and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.

BLS OEWS metro wage desk

MSA 34820 · Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC $48K mean

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

  • MEAN-TRACE #502/528
  • RPP-LOW 93.6
  • OCC-MID 303 occs
  • TOP-LEAD Physicians, Al… · $350K
  • EMP-MIX Medical and…
  • TREND-INLINE +0.8 pp
  • PHOTO-FINISH Hammond, LA
  • BOOK-MOST 298 rows · May 2025

Read with Hammond, LA (+$75 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 Myrtle Beach-Conway-North M…

Guayama, PR · lowest mean: $32KGuayama, PR · lowest mean$32KMyrtle Beach-Conway-… · this MSA: $48KMyrtle Beach-Conway-… · this…$48KHammond, LA · near: $48KHammond, LA · near$48KSoutheast Oklahoma n… · near: $48KSoutheast Oklahoma n… · near$48KLower West Mississip… · near: $48KLower West Mississip… · near$48KEnid, OK · near: $48KEnid, OK · near$48KSan Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · highest mean: $119KSan Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · high…$119K
Read the chart as text
Label Value
Guayama, PR · lowest mean $32K
Myrtle Beach-Conway-… · this MSA $48K
Hammond, LA · near $48K
Southeast Oklahoma n… · near $48K
Lower West Mississip… · near $48K
Enid, OK · near $48K
San Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · highest mean $119K

Employment scale inside Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC's top-pay list

Medical and Health Services Managers and Lawyers lead published employment inside Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.

  1. 1. Medical and Health Services Managers 480 jobs · $103,900
  2. 2. Lawyers 440 jobs · $118,950
  3. 3. Financial Managers 400 jobs · $137,450
  4. 4. Pharmacists 320 jobs · $135,410
  5. 5. Management Analysts 280 jobs · $124,400
  6. 6. Nurse Practitioners 260 jobs · $121,390
  7. 7. Physicians, All Other 240 jobs · $349,720
  8. 8. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 190 jobs · $104,360
  9. 9. Administrative Services Managers 160 jobs · $122,290
  10. 10. Family Medicine Physicians 140 jobs · $263,630
  11. 11. Physician Assistants 140 jobs · $125,700
  12. 12. Dentists, General 130 jobs · $134,420
  13. 13. Marketing Managers 110 jobs · $143,450
  14. 14. Chief Executives 100 jobs · $194,350
  15. 15. Computer and Information Systems Managers 100 jobs · $140,200
  16. 16. Industrial Production Managers 100 jobs · $110,070
  17. 17. Veterinarians 80 jobs · $128,630
  18. 18. Managers, All Other 80 jobs · $126,610

Occupations Tracked

303

with wage data

Published-Row Mean

$48,207

employment-weighted, 298 complete rows

Top Salary

$349,720

Physicians, All Other

Cost of Living

93.6

6% below US avg

Price-level adjustment: Dividing the derived published-row mean of $48,207 by the metro RPP gives $51,480 on a national-price basis. This is not an after-tax income or a personal cost-of-living result.

Highest Paying Jobs in Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC

# Occupation Median Salary
1 Physicians, All Other $349,720
2 Nurse Anesthetists $279,570
3 Family Medicine Physicians $263,630
4 Chief Executives $194,350
5 Database Architects $153,240
6 Architectural and Engineering Managers $152,050
7 Optometrists $150,010
8 Marketing Managers $143,450
9 Computer and Information Systems Managers $140,200
10 Financial Managers $137,450
11 Pharmacists $135,410
12 Dentists, General $134,420
13 Veterinarians $128,630
14 Managers, All Other $126,610
15 Physician Assistants $125,700
16 Management Analysts $124,400
17 Administrative Services Managers $122,290
18 Nurse Practitioners $121,390
19 Mechanical Engineers $120,070
20 Lawyers $118,950
21 Human Resources Managers $116,010
22 Industrial Production Managers $110,070
23 Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary $104,360
24 Medical and Health Services Managers $103,900
25 Real Estate Brokers $103,070

Lowest Paying Jobs in Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC

Other BLS Wage Areas in SC

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 SC. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($48,207 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 Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC?
Across the 298 occupation rows for Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC with both a published mean wage and employment estimate, weighting each mean by employment gives $48,207/year (BLS OEWS May 2025). The page has 303 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 $150,358, which describes the displayed top tier only.
Which published medians lead Myrtle Beach-Conway-North M…?
Physicians, All Other holds the highest published median in Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC at $349,720/year (BLS OEWS May 2025). Next is Nurse Anesthetists at $279,570/year. These are occupation medians for this metropolitan statistical area, not employer offers.
What is the cost of living in Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC?
Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC has a Regional Price Parity of 93.6, meaning prices are 6% below the national average. Dividing the derived published-row mean of $48,207 by the RPP gives a national-price-equivalent benchmark of $51,480.
Where does BLS salary data for Myrtle Beach-Conway-North M… 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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