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
- 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
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. Detectives and Criminal Investigators 730 jobs · $108,350
- 2. Computer Occupations, All Other 500 jobs · $118,120
- 3. Managers, All Other 280 jobs · $125,280
- 4. Software Developers 280 jobs · $115,890
- 5. Computer and Information Systems Managers 150 jobs · $156,890
- 6. Medical and Health Services Managers 130 jobs · $109,270
- 7. Computer Systems Analysts 110 jobs · $113,070
- 8. Financial Managers 110 jobs · $102,010
- 9. Sales Managers 100 jobs · $133,800
- 10. Electronics Engineers, Except Computer 100 jobs · $116,340
- 11. Computer Network Architects 90 jobs · $105,290
- 12. Nurse Practitioners 80 jobs · $138,120
- 13. Lawyers 80 jobs · $119,990
- 14. Chief Executives 70 jobs · $122,670
- 15. First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives 70 jobs · $100,770
- 16. Pharmacists 60 jobs · $152,710
- 17. Architectural and Engineering Managers 50 jobs · $156,500
- 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
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
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Packers and Packagers, Hand | $30,580 |
| Hotel, Motel, and Resort Desk Clerks | $30,580 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $30,580 |
| Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners | $30,600 |
| Home Health and Personal Care Aides | $30,630 |
| Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse | $30,760 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $30,800 |
| Dishwashers | $30,880 |
| Cleaners of Vehicles and Equipment | $31,060 |
| Childcare Workers | $31,390 |
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.
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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.