Spartanburg, SC Salaries
Local wages where BEA prices sit below the US average (RPP 91.1) - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Spartanburg, SC moved from $46,210 in May 2024 to $47,650 in May 2025 (+3.1%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Spartanburg, SC sits +0.0 pp near 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.
Waiters and Waitresses shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Spartanburg, SC
Waiters and Waitresses publishes $18,370 here versus $35,230 nationally (-47.9%; 2,140metro-area jobs). Next is Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators at $59,300 locally versus $44,650 nationally (+32.8%).
- Waiters and Waitresses$18,370 in Spartanburg, SC sits 47.9% below the national Waiters and Waitresses median of $35,230 (2,140 published local jobs).
- Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators$59,300 in Spartanburg, SC sits 32.8% above the national Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators median of $44,650 (11,790 published local jobs).
- First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers$92,070 in Spartanburg, SC sits 23.7% above the national First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers median of $74,450 (2,380 published local jobs).
- Office Clerks, General$37,300 in Spartanburg, SC sits 17.1% below the national Office Clerks, General median of $45,010 (2,400 published local jobs).
Waiters and Waitresses and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Spartanburg, SC; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 43900 · Spartanburg, SC $57K mean
MEAN-LOW · RPP-LOW · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-FULL
- MEAN-LOW #284/528
- RPP-LOW 91.1
- OCC-MID 353 occs
- TOP-LEAD General Intern… · $284K
- EMP-MIX Industrial P…
- TREND-INLINE +0.0 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Mobile, AL
- BOOK-FULL 349 rows · May 2025
Read with Mobile, AL ($4 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 Spartanburg, SC
Where Spartanburg, SC already employs the upper wage tier
Industrial Production Managers and Sales Managers lead published employment inside Spartanburg, SC's top-pay sample, order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Industrial Production Managers 700 jobs · $131,250
- 2. Sales Managers 560 jobs · $130,870
- 3. Financial Managers 500 jobs · $139,230
- 4. Pharmacists 480 jobs · $153,610
- 5. Computer and Information Systems Managers 250 jobs · $158,660
- 6. Marketing Managers 220 jobs · $139,990
- 7. Physicians, All Other 220 jobs · $131,460
- 8. Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products 210 jobs · $138,750
- 9. Administrative Services Managers 190 jobs · $127,770
- 10. Architectural and Engineering Managers 170 jobs · $148,510
- 11. Human Resources Managers 160 jobs · $127,570
- 12. Facilities Managers 120 jobs · $124,290
- 13. Chief Executives 100 jobs · $197,540
- 14. Dentists, General 100 jobs · $140,360
- 15. Managers, All Other 100 jobs · $124,480
- 16. Chemists 90 jobs · $122,350
- 17. Physician Assistants 80 jobs · $121,990
- 18. Purchasing Managers 60 jobs · $134,370
Occupations Tracked
353
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$57,218
employment-weighted, 349 complete rows
Top Salary
$284,250
General Internal Medicine Physicians
Cost of Living
91.1
9% below US avg
Top-pay occupations in Spartanburg, SC, by employment
Same top-pay sample as the salary ranking, sorted by published local jobs so the title sequence follows the OEWS mix.
Lowest Paying Jobs in Spartanburg, SC
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Waiters and Waitresses | $18,370 |
| Pressers, Textile, Garment, and Related Materials | $19,480 |
| Bartenders | $20,090 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $22,370 |
| Driver/Sales Workers | $22,990 |
| Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service Workers | $26,670 |
| Library Assistants, Clerical | $26,750 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $27,290 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $27,390 |
| Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary | $27,500 |
Other BLS Wage Areas in SC
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 SC. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($57,218 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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How to use Spartanburg, SC wage figures in a real decision
- General Internal Medicine Physicians leads published medians in Spartanburg, SC at $284,250/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. General Internal Medicine Physicians
- The employment-weighted published-row mean of $57,218 adjusts to about $62,842 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 91.1. Salary vs cost of living
- Compare this metropolitan statistical area against the statewide occupation table for SC 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.