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.
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.
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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How to use Salisbury, MD wage figures in a real decision
- Physicians, All Other leads published medians in Salisbury, MD at $402,980/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Physicians, All Other
- The employment-weighted published-row mean of $61,830 adjusts to about $64,664 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 95.6. Salary vs cost of living
- Compare this metropolitan statistical area against the statewide occupation table for MD 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.