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.
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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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.