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title: "Average Salary in Atlantic City, NJ"
description: "Mean $63,400, median $47,520 in the Atlantic City metro area (BLS OEWS May 2025), with prices and top jobs."
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last-updated: "2026-10-15T08:19:32.066Z"
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# Average salary in Atlantic City, NJ

Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ metropolitan statistical area. Mean annual wage $63,400, median $47,520 (US: $69,770 / $50,980), BLS OEWS May 2025, 168,700 jobs. Median at national-average prices: $48,070.

| Percentile | Annual wage |
| --- | --- |
| 10th | $32,410 |
| 25th | $36,460 |
| 50th | $47,520 |
| 75th | $74,470 |
| 90th | $107,330 |

| Price level (BEA RPP 2024, US = 100) | Index |
| --- | --- |
| All items | 98.9 |
| Housing (rents) | 98.7 |
| Goods | 99.8 |
| Utilities | 109.2 |
| Other services | 97.9 |

## Highest-paying jobs (mean annual wage)

- [Pediatrician, General](https://nuecareer.com/careers/pediatrician-general): $219,420
- [Dentist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/dentist): $194,080
- [Judge](https://nuecareer.com/careers/judge): $190,050
- [Natural Sciences Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/natural-sciences-manager): $181,210
- [Financial Advisor](https://nuecareer.com/careers/financial-advisor): $180,440
- [Financial Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/financial-manager): $171,230
- [IT Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/it-manager): $169,480
- [Architectural and Engineering Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/architectural-and-engineering-manager): $168,600
- [Veterinarian](https://nuecareer.com/careers/veterinarian): $165,510
- [Purchasing Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/purchasing-manager): $165,360

Occupation pay is the OEWS May 2025 metro mean as published in the DOL OFLC 2026–27 wage file (metro-level estimates only).

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This bank includes information from the O\*NET 31.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). O\*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. NueCareer has transformed the data by joining it to BLS wage and projection data and deriving facet, personality-fit and AI-resilience scores. BLS and BEA data are public domain (17 U.S.C. §105).

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