Valdosta, GA Salaries
Local wages where BEA prices sit below the US average (RPP 88.3) - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Valdosta, GA moved from $38,000 in May 2024 to $39,110 in May 2025 (+2.9%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Valdosta, GA sits -0.2 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.
Fast Food and Counter Workers shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Valdosta, GA
Fast Food and Counter Workers publishes $23,100 here versus $31,200 nationally (-26.0%; 2,380metro-area jobs).
- Fast Food and Counter Workers$23,100 in Valdosta, GA sits 26.0% below the national Fast Food and Counter Workers median of $31,200 (2,380 published local jobs).
Fast Food and Counter Workers and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Valdosta, GA; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 46660 · Valdosta, GA $49K mean
MEAN-TRACE · RPP-LOW · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST
- MEAN-TRACE #495/528
- RPP-LOW 88.3
- OCC-MID 233 occs
- TOP-LEAD Family Medicin… · $246K
- EMP-MIX Managers, Al…
- TREND-INLINE -0.2 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Florence-Muscle…
- BOOK-MOST 232 rows · May 2025
Read with Florence-Muscle Shoals, AL (+$5 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 Valdosta, GA
Where Valdosta, GA already employs the upper wage tier
Managers, All Other and Pharmacists lead published employment inside Valdosta, GA's top-pay sample, order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Managers, All Other 240 jobs · $90,370
- 2. Pharmacists 170 jobs · $127,810
- 3. Financial Managers 140 jobs · $126,590
- 4. Medical and Health Services Managers 140 jobs · $106,880
- 5. Lawyers 130 jobs · $101,000
- 6. Nurse Practitioners 110 jobs · $117,400
- 7. Construction Managers 100 jobs · $96,560
- 8. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 100 jobs · $95,000
- 9. Sales Managers 90 jobs · $128,650
- 10. Industrial Production Managers 80 jobs · $112,570
- 11. Software Developers 70 jobs · $105,640
- 12. Physical Therapists 70 jobs · $97,050
- 13. Industrial Engineers 70 jobs · $93,380
- 14. Family Medicine Physicians 60 jobs · $246,190
- 15. Physicians, All Other 60 jobs · $204,720
- 16. Chief Executives 60 jobs · $133,570
- 17. Education Administrators, Postsecondary 60 jobs · $106,900
- 18. Personal Financial Advisors 60 jobs · $97,360
Occupations Tracked
233
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$48,712
employment-weighted, 232 complete rows
Top Salary
$246,190
Family Medicine Physicians
Cost of Living
88.3
12% below US avg
Top-pay occupations in Valdosta, GA, 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 | Managers, All Other | $90,370 |
| 2 | Pharmacists | $127,810 |
| 3 | Financial Managers | $126,590 |
| 4 | Medical and Health Services Managers | $106,880 |
| 5 | Lawyers | $101,000 |
| 6 | Nurse Practitioners | $117,400 |
| 7 | Construction Managers | $96,560 |
| 8 | Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary | $95,000 |
| 9 | Sales Managers | $128,650 |
| 10 | Industrial Production Managers | $112,570 |
| 11 | Software Developers | $105,640 |
| 12 | Physical Therapists | $97,050 |
| 13 | Industrial Engineers | $93,380 |
| 14 | Family Medicine Physicians | $246,190 |
| 15 | Physicians, All Other | $204,720 |
| 16 | Chief Executives | $133,570 |
| 17 | Education Administrators, Postsecondary | $106,900 |
| 18 | Personal Financial Advisors | $97,360 |
| 19 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $117,400 |
| 20 | Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers | $98,130 |
| 21 | Human Resources Managers | $112,590 |
| 22 | Computer Science Teachers, Postsecondary | $107,060 |
| 23 | Occupational Therapists | $92,430 |
| 24 | Social Workers, All Other | $87,420 |
| 25 | Facilities Managers | $96,730 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in Valdosta, GA
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Waiters and Waitresses | $18,510 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $19,750 |
| Substitute Teachers, Short-Term | $22,340 |
| Childcare Workers | $22,510 |
| Animal Caretakers | $23,000 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $23,100 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $23,360 |
| Cooks, Fast Food | $23,640 |
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $24,260 |
| Bartenders | $25,920 |
Other BLS Wage Areas in GA
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 GA. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($48,712 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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How to use Valdosta, GA wage figures in a real decision
- Family Medicine Physicians leads published medians in Valdosta, GA at $246,190/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Family Medicine Physicians
- The employment-weighted published-row mean of $48,712 adjusts to about $55,185 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 88.3. Salary vs cost of living
- Compare this metropolitan statistical area against the statewide occupation table for GA 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.