Sierra Vista-Douglas, AZ Salaries

Local wages where BEA prices sit below the US average (RPP 89.2) - BLS OEWS May 2025

Observed metro pay change

What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025

May 2024 → May 2025
  • BLS's published All Occupations median in Sierra Vista-Douglas, AZ moved from $45,940 in May 2024 to $47,050 in May 2025 (+2.4%).
  • Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
  • Sierra Vista-Douglas, AZ sits -0.7 pp behind that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.

BLS OEWS metro wage desk

MSA 43420 · Sierra Vista-Douglas, AZ $61K mean

MEAN-MID · RPP-LOW · OCC-THIN · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST

  • MEAN-MID #170/528
  • RPP-LOW 89.2
  • OCC-THIN 181 occs
  • TOP-LEAD Family Medicin… · $294K
  • EMP-MIX Detectives a…
  • TREND-INLINE -0.7 pp
  • PHOTO-FINISH Glens Falls, NY
  • BOOK-MOST 179 rows · May 2025

Read with Glens Falls, NY ($22 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 Sierra Vista-Douglas, AZ

Guayama, PR · lowest mean: $32KGuayama, PR · lowest mean$32KSierra Vista-Douglas… · this MSA: $61KSierra Vista-Douglas… · this…$61KGlens Falls, NY · near: $61KGlens Falls, NY · near$61KSan Antonio-New Brau… · near: $61KSan Antonio-New Brau… · near$61KIowa City, IA · near: $61KIowa City, IA · near$61KUtica-Rome, NY · near: $61KUtica-Rome, NY · near$61KSan Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · highest mean: $119KSan Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · high…$119K
Read the chart as text
Label Value
Guayama, PR · lowest mean $32K
Sierra Vista-Douglas… · this MSA $61K
Glens Falls, NY · near $61K
San Antonio-New Brau… · near $61K
Iowa City, IA · near $61K
Utica-Rome, NY · near $61K
San Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · highest mean $119K

Where Sierra Vista-Douglas, AZ already employs the upper wage tier

Detectives and Criminal Investigators and Computer Occupations, All Other lead published employment inside Sierra Vista-Douglas, AZ's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.

  1. 1. Detectives and Criminal Investigators 730 jobs · $108,350
  2. 2. Computer Occupations, All Other 500 jobs · $118,120
  3. 3. Managers, All Other 280 jobs · $125,280
  4. 4. Software Developers 280 jobs · $115,890
  5. 5. Computer and Information Systems Managers 150 jobs · $156,890
  6. 6. Medical and Health Services Managers 130 jobs · $109,270
  7. 7. Computer Systems Analysts 110 jobs · $113,070
  8. 8. Financial Managers 110 jobs · $102,010
  9. 9. Sales Managers 100 jobs · $133,800
  10. 10. Electronics Engineers, Except Computer 100 jobs · $116,340
  11. 11. Computer Network Architects 90 jobs · $105,290
  12. 12. Nurse Practitioners 80 jobs · $138,120
  13. 13. Lawyers 80 jobs · $119,990
  14. 14. Chief Executives 70 jobs · $122,670
  15. 15. First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives 70 jobs · $100,770
  16. 16. Pharmacists 60 jobs · $152,710
  17. 17. Architectural and Engineering Managers 50 jobs · $156,500
  18. 18. Information Security Analysts 50 jobs · $107,520

Occupations Tracked

181

with wage data

Published-Row Mean

$60,950

employment-weighted, 179 complete rows

Top Salary

$293,660

Family Medicine Physicians

Cost of Living

89.2

11% below US avg

Price-level adjustment: Dividing the derived published-row mean of $60,950 by the metro RPP gives $68,297 on a national-price basis. This is not an after-tax income or a personal cost-of-living result.

Top-pay occupations in Sierra Vista-Douglas, AZ, 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 Detectives and Criminal Investigators $108,350
2 Computer Occupations, All Other $118,120
3 Managers, All Other $125,280
4 Software Developers $115,890
5 Computer and Information Systems Managers $156,890
6 Medical and Health Services Managers $109,270
7 Computer Systems Analysts $113,070
8 Financial Managers $102,010
9 Sales Managers $133,800
10 Electronics Engineers, Except Computer $116,340
11 Computer Network Architects $105,290
12 Nurse Practitioners $138,120
13 Lawyers $119,990
14 Chief Executives $122,670
15 First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives $100,770
16 Pharmacists $152,710
17 Architectural and Engineering Managers $156,500
18 Information Security Analysts $107,520
19 Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers $102,420
20 Family Medicine Physicians $293,660
21 Physical Therapists $105,050
22 Electrical Engineers $104,040
23 Data Scientists $103,440
24 Industrial Production Managers $101,140
25 Commercial Pilots $100,420

Lowest Paying Jobs in Sierra Vista-Douglas, AZ

Other BLS Wage Areas in AZ

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 AZ. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($60,950 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does the lower price level do to Sierra Vista-Douglas, AZ wage reading?
The employment-weighted published-row mean across 179 occupation rows is $60,950/year (BLS OEWS May 2025). BEA RPP 89.2 puts local prices 11% below the US average, so the same mean reads as $68,297 in national-price terms. Page lists 181 occupations with a published median — a different denominator. The top-tier median average of the 25 highest-paying rows is $124,510.
What is the highest paying job in Sierra Vista-Douglas, AZ?
The highest paying occupation in Sierra Vista-Douglas, AZ is Family Medicine Physicians with a median salary of $293,660/year. The second highest is Computer and Information Systems Managers at $156,890/year.
What jobs pay the least in Sierra Vista-Douglas, AZ?
The lowest paying occupation in Sierra Vista-Douglas, AZ is Packers and Packagers, Hand with a median salary of $30,580/year according to BLS data.
Which federal tables feed Sierra Vista-Douglas, AZ's wage and price figures?
Occupation wages are BLS OEWS May 2025 estimates for this metropolitan statistical area. The price-level figure is BEA Regional Price Parities for the matching metro area (latest published year on the page). WageDex divides the employment-weighted published-row mean by RPP only when both inputs exist; it does not substitute a national RPP.

Last updated: May 2025 (BLS OEWS annual release). Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS May 2025. Cost-of-living index: BEA Regional Price Parities, 2024.

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.

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