Pittsfield, MA Salaries
Highest published occupation medians in Pittsfield, MA - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Pittsfield, MA moved from $49,970 in May 2024 to $51,860 in May 2025 (+3.8%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Pittsfield, MA sits +0.7 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.
Home Health and Personal Care Aides shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Pittsfield, MA
Home Health and Personal Care Aides publishes $40,160 here versus $35,800 nationally (+12.2%; 2,540metro-area jobs).
- Home Health and Personal Care Aides$40,160 in Pittsfield, MA sits 12.2% above the national Home Health and Personal Care Aides median of $35,800 (2,540 published local jobs).
Home Health and Personal Care Aides and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Pittsfield, MA; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 38340 · Pittsfield, MA $66K mean
MEAN-HIGH · RPP-MID · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST
- MEAN-HIGH #97/528
- RPP-MID 95.1
- OCC-MID 245 occs
- TOP-LEAD Surgeons, All… · $476K
- EMP-MIX Software Dev…
- TREND-INLINE +0.7 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Stockton-Lodi, CA
- BOOK-MOST 244 rows · May 2025
Read with Stockton-Lodi, CA ($60 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 Pittsfield, MA
Employment scale inside Pittsfield, MA's top-pay list
Software Developers and Financial Managers lead published employment inside Pittsfield, MA's top-pay sample, order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Software Developers 280 jobs · $154,860
- 2. Financial Managers 270 jobs · $161,980
- 3. Medical and Health Services Managers 260 jobs · $131,100
- 4. Management Analysts 140 jobs · $125,010
- 5. Nurse Practitioners 130 jobs · $136,730
- 6. Computer and Information Systems Managers 120 jobs · $177,960
- 7. Sales Managers 120 jobs · $144,320
- 8. Physicians, All Other 110 jobs · $347,840
- 9. Architectural and Engineering Managers 100 jobs · $197,570
- 10. Pharmacists 100 jobs · $137,910
- 11. Physician Assistants 100 jobs · $137,620
- 12. Construction Managers 90 jobs · $127,190
- 13. Marketing Managers 80 jobs · $171,620
- 14. Personal Financial Advisors 70 jobs · $125,900
- 15. Managers, All Other 60 jobs · $157,520
- 16. Industrial Production Managers 60 jobs · $134,440
- 17. Clinical and Counseling Psychologists 60 jobs · $125,030
- 18. Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products 60 jobs · $124,270
Occupations Tracked
245
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$65,541
employment-weighted, 244 complete rows
Top Salary
$476,230
Surgeons, All Other
Cost of Living
95.1
5% below US avg
Highest Paying Jobs in Pittsfield, MA
| # | Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Surgeons, All Other | $476,230 |
| 2 | Physicians, All Other | $347,840 |
| 3 | General Internal Medicine Physicians | $228,740 |
| 4 | Architectural and Engineering Managers | $197,570 |
| 5 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $177,960 |
| 6 | Dentists, General | $173,990 |
| 7 | Marketing Managers | $171,620 |
| 8 | Financial Managers | $161,980 |
| 9 | Managers, All Other | $157,520 |
| 10 | Software Developers | $154,860 |
| 11 | Human Resources Managers | $145,640 |
| 12 | Sales Managers | $144,320 |
| 13 | Pharmacists | $137,910 |
| 14 | Physician Assistants | $137,620 |
| 15 | Fundraising Managers | $136,830 |
| 16 | Nurse Practitioners | $136,730 |
| 17 | Industrial Production Managers | $134,440 |
| 18 | Medical and Health Services Managers | $131,100 |
| 19 | Veterinarians | $127,910 |
| 20 | Construction Managers | $127,190 |
| 21 | Personal Financial Advisors | $125,900 |
| 22 | Engineers, All Other | $125,350 |
| 23 | Clinical and Counseling Psychologists | $125,030 |
| 24 | Management Analysts | $125,010 |
| 25 | Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products | $124,270 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in Pittsfield, MA
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Production Workers, All Other | $31,200 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $31,210 |
| School Bus Monitors | $33,330 |
| Ushers, Lobby Attendants, and Ticket Takers | $33,470 |
| Packers and Packagers, Hand | $34,200 |
| Tour and Travel Guides | $34,280 |
| Cashiers | $34,380 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $34,680 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $34,960 |
| Food Servers, Nonrestaurant | $35,020 |
Other BLS Wage Areas in MA
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 MA. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($65,541 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 Pittsfield, MA wage figures in a real decision
- Surgeons, All Other leads published medians in Pittsfield, MA at $476,230/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Surgeons, All Other
- The employment-weighted published-row mean of $65,541 adjusts to about $68,914 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 95.1. Salary vs cost of living
- Compare this metropolitan statistical area against the statewide occupation table for MA 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.