Winchester, VA-WV Salaries
Highest published occupation medians in Winchester, VA-WV - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Winchester, VA-WV moved from $47,310 in May 2024 to $47,070 in May 2025 (-0.5%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Winchester, VA-WV sits -3.6 pp behind that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
Retail Salespersons shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Winchester, VA-WV
Retail Salespersons publishes $30,780 here versus $35,410 nationally (-13.1%; 2,290metro-area jobs).
- Retail Salespersons$30,780 in Winchester, VA-WV sits 13.1% below the national Retail Salespersons median of $35,410 (2,290 published local jobs).
Retail Salespersons and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Winchester, VA-WV; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 49020 · Winchester, VA-WV $59K mean
MEAN-MID · RPP-MID · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-BEHIND · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST
- MEAN-MID #215/528
- RPP-MID 96.5
- OCC-MID 257 occs
- TOP-LEAD Cardiologists · $500K
- EMP-MIX Management A…
- TREND-BEHIND -3.6 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Ames, IA
- BOOK-MOST 255 rows · May 2025
Read with Ames, IA (+$3 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 Winchester, VA-WV
Employment scale inside Winchester, VA-WV's top-pay list
Management Analysts and Software Developers lead published employment inside Winchester, VA-WV's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Management Analysts 360 jobs · $110,340
- 2. Software Developers 350 jobs · $133,290
- 3. Financial Managers 270 jobs · $151,990
- 4. Medical and Health Services Managers 270 jobs · $136,350
- 5. Computer Occupations, All Other 220 jobs · $118,290
- 6. Managers, All Other 190 jobs · $156,730
- 7. Nurse Practitioners 160 jobs · $130,700
- 8. Pharmacists 150 jobs · $135,850
- 9. Information Security Analysts 150 jobs · $119,680
- 10. Computer and Information Systems Managers 140 jobs · $166,770
- 11. Lawyers 140 jobs · $124,760
- 12. Sales Managers 130 jobs · $157,340
- 13. Physician Assistants 100 jobs · $126,080
- 14. Chief Executives 90 jobs · $221,620
- 15. Marketing Managers 80 jobs · $139,900
- 16. Human Resources Managers 80 jobs · $139,390
- 17. Industrial Production Managers 80 jobs · $112,270
- 18. Physicians, All Other 70 jobs · $210,550
Occupations Tracked
257
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$59,290
employment-weighted, 255 complete rows
Top Salary
$500,020
Cardiologists
Cost of Living
96.5
4% below US avg
Highest Paying Jobs in Winchester, VA-WV
| # | Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cardiologists | $500,020 |
| 2 | Chief Executives | $221,620 |
| 3 | Physicians, All Other | $210,550 |
| 4 | Family Medicine Physicians | $198,720 |
| 5 | Architectural and Engineering Managers | $175,020 |
| 6 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $166,770 |
| 7 | Sales Managers | $157,340 |
| 8 | Managers, All Other | $156,730 |
| 9 | Financial Managers | $151,990 |
| 10 | Marketing Managers | $139,900 |
| 11 | Human Resources Managers | $139,390 |
| 12 | Medical and Health Services Managers | $136,350 |
| 13 | Pharmacists | $135,850 |
| 14 | Software Developers | $133,290 |
| 15 | Computer Network Architects | $132,500 |
| 16 | Nurse Practitioners | $130,700 |
| 17 | Data Scientists | $129,990 |
| 18 | Physician Assistants | $126,080 |
| 19 | Lawyers | $124,760 |
| 20 | Information Security Analysts | $119,680 |
| 21 | Veterinarians | $118,830 |
| 22 | Computer Occupations, All Other | $118,290 |
| 23 | Administrative Services Managers | $115,860 |
| 24 | Industrial Production Managers | $112,270 |
| 25 | Management Analysts | $110,340 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in Winchester, VA-WV
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $27,830 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $28,130 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $28,360 |
| Cooks, Fast Food | $28,430 |
| Coaches and Scouts | $28,610 |
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $28,780 |
| Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service Workers | $28,840 |
| Home Health and Personal Care Aides | $29,240 |
| Cashiers | $29,600 |
| Automotive and Watercraft Service Attendants | $29,740 |
Other BLS Wage Areas in VA
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 VA. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($59,290 here) and summed published employment.
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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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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.