Williamsport, PA Salaries

Highest published occupation medians in Williamsport, PA - BLS OEWS May 2025

Observed metro pay change

What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025

May 2024 → May 2025
  • BLS's published All Occupations median in Williamsport, PA moved from $45,310 in May 2024 to $46,050 in May 2025 (+1.6%).
  • Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
  • Williamsport, PA sits -1.5 pp behind that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.

BLS OEWS metro wage desk

MSA 48700 · Williamsport, PA $55K mean

MEAN-LOW · RPP-LOW · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST

  • MEAN-LOW #340/528
  • RPP-LOW 92.3
  • OCC-MID 226 occs
  • TOP-LEAD Physicians, Al… · $314K
  • EMP-MIX Medical and…
  • TREND-INLINE -1.5 pp
  • PHOTO-FINISH Northeast Minnes…
  • BOOK-MOST 224 rows · May 2025

Read with Northeast Minnesota nonmetropolitan area ($13 on published-row mean) · Highest-paying careers

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 Williamsport, PA

Guayama, PR · lowest mean: $32KGuayama, PR · lowest mean$32KWilliamsport, PA · this MSA: $55KWilliamsport, PA · this MSA$55KNortheast Minnesota… · near: $55KNortheast Minnesota… · near$55KGrand Island, NE · near: $55KGrand Island, NE · near$55KMacon-Bibb County, GA · near: $55KMacon-Bibb County, GA · near$55KRapid City, SD · near: $55KRapid City, SD · near$55KSan Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · highest mean: $119KSan Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · high…$119K
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Label Value
Guayama, PR · lowest mean $32K
Williamsport, PA · this MSA $55K
Northeast Minnesota… · near $55K
Grand Island, NE · near $55K
Macon-Bibb County, GA · near $55K
Rapid City, SD · near $55K
San Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · highest mean $119K

Employment scale inside Williamsport, PA's top-pay list

Medical and Health Services Managers and Physicians, All Other lead published employment inside Williamsport, PA's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.

  1. 1. Medical and Health Services Managers 270 jobs · $97,420
  2. 2. Physicians, All Other 200 jobs · $313,620
  3. 3. Financial Managers 160 jobs · $122,870
  4. 4. Sales Managers 160 jobs · $120,550
  5. 5. Physician Assistants 150 jobs · $124,920
  6. 6. Physical Therapists 140 jobs · $105,340
  7. 7. Lawyers 130 jobs · $101,990
  8. 8. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 120 jobs · $113,000
  9. 9. Industrial Production Managers 110 jobs · $100,060
  10. 10. Nurse Practitioners 100 jobs · $123,830
  11. 11. Computer and Information Systems Managers 90 jobs · $121,760
  12. 12. Managers, All Other 90 jobs · $104,810
  13. 13. Occupational Therapists 70 jobs · $98,580
  14. 14. Pharmacists 60 jobs · $151,110
  15. 15. Architectural and Engineering Managers 60 jobs · $138,130
  16. 16. Human Resources Managers 60 jobs · $119,830
  17. 17. Personal Financial Advisors 60 jobs · $100,120
  18. 18. Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers 60 jobs · $96,530

Occupations Tracked

226

with wage data

Published-Row Mean

$55,374

employment-weighted, 224 complete rows

Top Salary

$313,620

Physicians, All Other

Cost of Living

92.3

8% below US avg

Price-level adjustment: Dividing the derived published-row mean of $55,374 by the metro RPP gives $59,961 on a national-price basis. This is not an after-tax income or a personal cost-of-living result.

Highest Paying Jobs in Williamsport, PA

# Occupation Median Salary
1 Physicians, All Other $313,620
2 Chief Executives $233,920
3 Dentists, General $204,660
4 Pharmacists $151,110
5 Architectural and Engineering Managers $138,130
6 Physician Assistants $124,920
7 Nurse Practitioners $123,830
8 Financial Managers $122,870
9 Computer and Information Systems Managers $121,760
10 Sales Managers $120,550
11 Human Resources Managers $119,830
12 Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary $113,000
13 Marketing Managers $108,260
14 Physical Therapists $105,340
15 Managers, All Other $104,810
16 Construction Managers $102,280
17 Lawyers $101,990
18 Administrative Services Managers $100,210
19 Personal Financial Advisors $100,120
20 Industrial Production Managers $100,060
21 Occupational Therapists $98,580
22 Electrical Engineers $97,890
23 Medical and Health Services Managers $97,420
24 Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers $96,530
25 Computer Systems Analysts $94,360

Lowest Paying Jobs in Williamsport, PA

Other BLS Wage Areas in PA

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 PA. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($55,374 here) and summed published employment.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the average salary in Williamsport, PA?
Across the 224 occupation rows for Williamsport, PA with both a published mean wage and employment estimate, weighting each mean by employment gives $55,374/year (BLS OEWS May 2025). The page has 226 occupations with a published median, a different denominator. This WageDex-derived benchmark is not a BLS-published All Occupations metro mean or median and does not state what a typical local worker earns. For contrast, averaging the medians of only the 25 highest-paying occupations gives $127,842, which describes the displayed top tier only.
Which published medians lead Williamsport, PA?
Physicians, All Other holds the highest published median in Williamsport, PA at $313,620/year (BLS OEWS May 2025). Next is Chief Executives at $233,920/year. These are occupation medians for this metropolitan statistical area, not employer offers.
What is the cost of living in Williamsport, PA?
Williamsport, PA has a Regional Price Parity of 92.3, meaning prices are 8% below the national average. Dividing the derived published-row mean of $55,374 by the RPP gives a national-price-equivalent benchmark of $59,961.
Where does BLS salary data for Williamsport, PA come from?
All salary figures are Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS May 2025 estimates for this metropolitan statistical area. OEWS surveys approximately 1.1 million business establishments. Medians and means on this page are the published occupation-level estimates for the area — not job-board scrapes or modeled employer offers.

Last updated: May 2025 (BLS OEWS annual release). Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS May 2025. Cost-of-living index: BEA Regional Price Parities, 2024.

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.

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