Salisbury, MD Salaries
Highest published occupation medians in Salisbury, MD - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Salisbury, MD moved from $46,650 in May 2024 to $48,710 in May 2025 (+4.4%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Salisbury, MD sits +1.3 pp ahead of that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 41540 · Salisbury, MD $62K mean
MEAN-MID · RPP-MID · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST
- MEAN-MID #156/528
- RPP-MID 95.6
- OCC-MID 240 occs
- TOP-LEAD Physicians, Al… · $403K
- EMP-MIX Financial Ma…
- TREND-INLINE +1.3 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Lexington-Fayett…
- BOOK-MOST 239 rows · May 2025
Read with Lexington-Fayette, KY (+$62 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 Salisbury, MD
Employment scale inside Salisbury, MD's top-pay list
Financial Managers and Medical and Health Services Managers lead published employment inside Salisbury, MD's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Financial Managers 310 jobs · $127,860
- 2. Medical and Health Services Managers 250 jobs · $120,890
- 3. Nurse Practitioners 190 jobs · $125,550
- 4. Physicians, All Other 160 jobs · $402,980
- 5. Sales Managers 160 jobs · $115,470
- 6. Lawyers 150 jobs · $127,450
- 7. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 150 jobs · $123,350
- 8. Managers, All Other 150 jobs · $114,870
- 9. Pharmacists 130 jobs · $133,480
- 10. Computer and Information Systems Managers 120 jobs · $147,250
- 11. Physical Therapists 100 jobs · $107,290
- 12. Physician Assistants 90 jobs · $142,580
- 13. Software Developers 90 jobs · $116,380
- 14. General Internal Medicine Physicians 80 jobs · $152,700
- 15. Human Resources Managers 70 jobs · $131,660
- 16. Industrial Production Managers 70 jobs · $119,870
- 17. Marketing Managers 70 jobs · $117,690
- 18. Construction Managers 70 jobs · $117,540
Occupations Tracked
240
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$61,830
employment-weighted, 239 complete rows
Top Salary
$402,980
Physicians, All Other
Cost of Living
95.6
4% below US avg
Highest Paying Jobs in Salisbury, MD
| # | Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Physicians, All Other | $402,980 |
| 2 | Surgeons, All Other | $310,560 |
| 3 | Natural Sciences Managers | $166,430 |
| 4 | Architectural and Engineering Managers | $152,820 |
| 5 | General Internal Medicine Physicians | $152,700 |
| 6 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $147,250 |
| 7 | Physician Assistants | $142,580 |
| 8 | Dentists, General | $136,010 |
| 9 | Pharmacists | $133,480 |
| 10 | Purchasing Managers | $133,290 |
| 11 | Human Resources Managers | $131,660 |
| 12 | Financial Managers | $127,860 |
| 13 | Lawyers | $127,450 |
| 14 | Nurse Practitioners | $125,550 |
| 15 | Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary | $123,350 |
| 16 | Medical and Health Services Managers | $120,890 |
| 17 | Industrial Production Managers | $119,870 |
| 18 | Marketing Managers | $117,690 |
| 19 | Construction Managers | $117,540 |
| 20 | Software Developers | $116,380 |
| 21 | Sales Managers | $115,470 |
| 22 | Managers, All Other | $114,870 |
| 23 | Computer Network Architects | $108,950 |
| 24 | Physical Therapists | $107,290 |
| 25 | Administrative Services Managers | $107,120 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in Salisbury, MD
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Sewing Machine Operators | $31,200 |
| Laundry and Dry-Cleaning Workers | $31,200 |
| Cashiers | $31,200 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $31,200 |
| Dishwashers | $31,200 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $31,200 |
| Cooks, Fast Food | $31,200 |
| Food Preparation Workers | $31,460 |
| Hotel, Motel, and Resort Desk Clerks | $31,750 |
| Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners | $32,010 |
Other BLS Wage Areas in MD
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 MD. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($61,830 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.