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.
D
Wage Scorecard
47/100
Sierra Vista-Douglas, AZ

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.

Wage Level D
$47,050
All-occupation median annual wage (BLS OEWS)
Wage Growth F
+2.4%
Year-over-year change in median wage (BLS OEWS)
Real Purchasing Power B-
$52,721
Median wage adjusted for regional price parity (RPP 89.2, BEA)

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.

What to do with this data

How to use Sierra Vista-Douglas, AZ wage figures in a real decision

  • Family Medicine Physicians leads published medians in Sierra Vista-Douglas, AZ at $293,660/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Family Medicine Physicians
  • The employment-weighted published-row mean of $60,950 adjusts to about $68,297 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 89.2. Salary vs cost of living
  • Compare this metropolitan statistical area against the statewide occupation table for AZ 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.

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