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.
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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