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.
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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