Business Operations Specialists, All Other
Albany, OR metropolitan area. Estimated employment 210.
Where you sit in the distribution
That is the median — half of people in this occupation in Albany earn more.
$73,320 in Albany buys what $71,800 buys across the country as a whole.
Albany's regional price parity is 102.1 — above the national average, so the nominal figure overstates what it buys. Adjusted figures for other metros are in the nearby-metros table below.
The same job, elsewhere in Oregon
Adjusted figures apply each metro's regional price parity, so the columns are directly comparable.
| Metro area | Median | Adjusted | RPP | vs. Albany |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portland | $79,660 | $75,600 | 105.4 | +5.2% |
| Bend | $76,600 | $73,900 | 103.6 | +3.0% |
| Salem | $75,670 | $73,000 | 103.6 | +1.7% |
| Albany This page | $73,320 | $71,800 | 102.1 | — |
| Grants Pass | $72,000 | $73,600 | 97.8 | +2.6% |
| Medford | $67,200 | $66,300 | 101.4 | −7.7% |
| Eugene | $66,510 | $65,500 | 101.6 | −8.8% |
| Corvallis | $62,920 | $60,500 | 104.0 | −15.8% |
Price parity and difference against Albany are in the full table on wider screens.
Nominal against real
The same median, once as published and once restated in 2025 dollars.
Published pay rose 22.3% over the five years to 2025. Adjusted for inflation it still rose 3.0% — pay has outrun prices since 2021. The two lines meet at the right edge by construction, since 2025 is the base year.
How this page was made
- Wage data
- Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 release. Public domain.
- Price parity
- Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Price Parities, 2024.
- Inflation
- Real figures deflate by CPI-U annual averages (BLS, all items, US city average).
- Employment
- 210 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
- Occupation
- SOC 13-1199, Business Operations Specialists, All Other. Mapped to our taxonomy as business-operations-specialists-all-other.
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