Rocky Mount, NC Salaries
Local wages where BEA prices sit below the US average (RPP 88.0) - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Rocky Mount, NC moved from $41,180 in May 2024 to $43,960 in May 2025 (+6.8%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Rocky Mount, NC sits +3.6 pp ahead of that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 40580 · Rocky Mount, NC $53K mean
MEAN-TRACE · RPP-LOW · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-AHEAD · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST
- MEAN-TRACE #430/528
- RPP-LOW 88.0
- OCC-MID 246 occs
- TOP-LEAD Physicians, Al… · $333K
- EMP-MIX Construction…
- TREND-AHEAD +3.6 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Northwestern Sou…
- BOOK-MOST 242 rows · May 2025
Read with Northwestern South Carolina nonmetropolitan area (+$55 on published-row mean) · Salary vs. cost of living
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 Rocky Mount, NC
Where Rocky Mount, NC already employs the upper wage tier
Construction Managers and Industrial Production Managers lead published employment inside Rocky Mount, NC's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Construction Managers 190 jobs · $111,060
- 2. Industrial Production Managers 180 jobs · $130,720
- 3. Managers, All Other 180 jobs · $121,580
- 4. Medical and Health Services Managers 150 jobs · $104,570
- 5. Financial Managers 140 jobs · $133,480
- 6. Sales Managers 140 jobs · $118,080
- 7. Pharmacists 130 jobs · $133,320
- 8. Software Developers 120 jobs · $130,600
- 9. Computer and Information Systems Managers 110 jobs · $137,120
- 10. Lawyers 100 jobs · $99,420
- 11. Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers 80 jobs · $106,950
- 12. Physical Therapists 80 jobs · $103,030
- 13. Marketing Managers 60 jobs · $162,220
- 14. Architectural and Engineering Managers 60 jobs · $155,170
- 15. Human Resources Managers 60 jobs · $111,120
- 16. Electrical Engineers 60 jobs · $104,230
- 17. Engineers, All Other 60 jobs · $100,910
- 18. Physicians, All Other 50 jobs · $332,950
Occupations Tracked
246
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$52,643
employment-weighted, 242 complete rows
Top Salary
$332,950
Physicians, All Other
Cost of Living
88.0
12% below US avg
Top-pay occupations in Rocky Mount, NC, by employment
Same top-pay sample as the salary ranking, sorted by published local jobs so the title sequence follows the OEWS mix.
| # | Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Construction Managers | $111,060 |
| 2 | Industrial Production Managers | $130,720 |
| 3 | Managers, All Other | $121,580 |
| 4 | Medical and Health Services Managers | $104,570 |
| 5 | Financial Managers | $133,480 |
| 6 | Sales Managers | $118,080 |
| 7 | Pharmacists | $133,320 |
| 8 | Software Developers | $130,600 |
| 9 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $137,120 |
| 10 | Lawyers | $99,420 |
| 11 | Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers | $106,950 |
| 12 | Physical Therapists | $103,030 |
| 13 | Marketing Managers | $162,220 |
| 14 | Architectural and Engineering Managers | $155,170 |
| 15 | Human Resources Managers | $111,120 |
| 16 | Electrical Engineers | $104,230 |
| 17 | Engineers, All Other | $100,910 |
| 18 | Physicians, All Other | $332,950 |
| 19 | Physician Assistants | $116,930 |
| 20 | Facilities Managers | $104,700 |
| 21 | Dentists, General | $161,810 |
| 22 | Nurse Practitioners | $117,880 |
| 23 | Administrative Services Managers | $104,150 |
| 24 | Occupational Therapists | $100,780 |
| 25 | Data Scientists | $111,870 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in Rocky Mount, NC
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Driver/Sales Workers | $21,220 |
| Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers | $21,470 |
| Cooks, Fast Food | $23,710 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $23,770 |
| Recreation Workers | $24,840 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $25,990 |
| Refuse and Recyclable Material Collectors | $26,580 |
| Cashiers | $26,610 |
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $26,820 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $26,850 |
Other BLS Wage Areas in NC
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 NC. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($52,643 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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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.