Savannah, GA Salaries
Highest published occupation medians in Savannah, GA - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Savannah, GA moved from $46,100 in May 2024 to $47,240 in May 2025 (+2.5%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Savannah, GA sits -0.6 pp behind that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
Waiters and Waitresses shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Savannah, GA
Waiters and Waitresses publishes $20,830 here versus $35,230 nationally (-40.9%; 4,940metro-area jobs). Next is General and Operations Managers at $83,990 locally versus $105,770 nationally (-20.6%).
- Waiters and Waitresses$20,830 in Savannah, GA sits 40.9% below the national Waiters and Waitresses median of $35,230 (4,940 published local jobs).
- General and Operations Managers$83,990 in Savannah, GA sits 20.6% below the national General and Operations Managers median of $105,770 (3,870 published local jobs).
- Customer Service Representatives$36,830 in Savannah, GA sits 17.7% below the national Customer Service Representatives median of $44,770 (3,290 published local jobs).
- Retail Salespersons$30,160 in Savannah, GA sits 14.8% below the national Retail Salespersons median of $35,410 (6,820 published local jobs).
Waiters and Waitresses and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Savannah, GA; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 42340 · Savannah, GA $57K mean
MEAN-LOW · RPP-MID · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-FULL
- MEAN-LOW #303/528
- RPP-MID 95.2
- OCC-MID 394 occs
- TOP-LEAD Physicians, Al… · $357K
- EMP-MIX Lawyers
- TREND-INLINE -0.6 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Eastern Ohio non…
- BOOK-FULL 388 rows · May 2025
Read with Eastern Ohio nonmetropolitan area (+$34 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 Savannah, GA
Employment scale inside Savannah, GA's top-pay list
Lawyers and Financial Managers lead published employment inside Savannah, GA's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Lawyers 640 jobs · $123,050
- 2. Financial Managers 480 jobs · $144,120
- 3. Sales Managers 460 jobs · $147,020
- 4. Software Developers 440 jobs · $123,220
- 5. Pharmacists 420 jobs · $137,420
- 6. Medical and Health Services Managers 400 jobs · $123,840
- 7. Nurse Practitioners 320 jobs · $118,410
- 8. Family Medicine Physicians 270 jobs · $349,030
- 9. Industrial Production Managers 250 jobs · $136,620
- 10. Computer and Information Systems Managers 240 jobs · $159,660
- 11. Personal Financial Advisors 210 jobs · $126,200
- 12. Architectural and Engineering Managers 200 jobs · $164,630
- 13. Human Resources Managers 170 jobs · $133,690
- 14. Marketing Managers 150 jobs · $142,710
- 15. Electrical Engineers 150 jobs · $121,240
- 16. Physicians, All Other 140 jobs · $357,050
- 17. Chief Executives 130 jobs · $197,840
- 18. Purchasing Managers 130 jobs · $131,410
Occupations Tracked
394
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$56,743
employment-weighted, 388 complete rows
Top Salary
$357,050
Physicians, All Other
Cost of Living
95.2
5% below US avg
Highest Paying Jobs in Savannah, GA
| # | Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Physicians, All Other | $357,050 |
| 2 | Family Medicine Physicians | $349,030 |
| 3 | Chief Executives | $197,840 |
| 4 | Architectural and Engineering Managers | $164,630 |
| 5 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $159,660 |
| 6 | Optometrists | $159,330 |
| 7 | Sales Managers | $147,020 |
| 8 | Financial Managers | $144,120 |
| 9 | Marketing Managers | $142,710 |
| 10 | Pharmacists | $137,420 |
| 11 | Industrial Production Managers | $136,620 |
| 12 | Human Resources Managers | $133,690 |
| 13 | Purchasing Managers | $131,410 |
| 14 | Natural Sciences Managers | $131,120 |
| 15 | Personal Financial Advisors | $126,200 |
| 16 | Physician Assistants | $125,500 |
| 17 | Medical and Health Services Managers | $123,840 |
| 18 | Software Developers | $123,220 |
| 19 | Lawyers | $123,050 |
| 20 | Facilities Managers | $121,470 |
| 21 | Electrical Engineers | $121,240 |
| 22 | Computer Network Architects | $118,950 |
| 23 | Nurse Practitioners | $118,410 |
| 24 | Art Directors | $117,650 |
| 25 | Veterinarians | $116,480 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in Savannah, GA
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| School Bus Monitors | $20,370 |
| Waiters and Waitresses | $20,830 |
| Bartenders | $21,980 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $26,370 |
| Food Preparation and Serving Related Workers, All Other | $27,130 |
| Physical Therapist Aides | $27,220 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $27,460 |
| Educational Instruction and Library Workers, All Other | $27,720 |
| Cooks, Short Order | $28,160 |
| Bus Drivers, School | $28,180 |
Other BLS Wage Areas in GA
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 GA. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($56,743 here) and summed published employment.
Similar mean wage
Nearest other metros by employment-weighted published-row annual mean wage.
Similar employment scale
Nearest headcount peers (floor 100,000 summed published jobs), distinct from the mean-wage column.
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.