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Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers

Gainesville, GA metropolitan area. Estimated employment 200.

Data released May 2025 BLS OEWS · SOC 35-9011
Fig. 1 — The wage rule

Where you sit in the distribution

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$28,340 · 50th
$18,25010th
$23,22025th
$28,34050th
$34,54075th
$39,19090th

That is the medianhalf of people in this occupation in Gainesville earn more.

Table 1 — Adjusted

$28,340 in Gainesville buys what $29,300 buys across the country as a whole.

Gainesville's regional price parity is 96.8 — below the national average, so a dollar here goes further than the nominal figure suggests. Adjusted figures for other metros are in the nearby-metros table below.

Table 2 — Nearby metros

The same job, elsewhere in Georgia

Adjusted figures apply each metro's regional price parity, so the columns are directly comparable.

Metro areaMedianAdjustedRPPvs. Gainesville
Hinesville$36,130$38,50093.9+31.3%
Atlanta$29,470$29,500100.1+0.6%
Savannah$28,930$30,40095.2+3.8%
Gainesville This page$28,340$29,30096.8
Brunswick$27,660$31,50087.7+7.7%
Warner Robins$27,440$29,30093.8−0.1%
Augusta$26,950$29,30091.9+0.1%
Macon$26,460$29,90088.5+2.1%

Price parity and difference against Gainesville are in the full table on wider screens.

Fig. 2 — Five-year trend

Nominal against real

The same median, once as published and once restated in 2025 dollars.

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Nominal, as published Real, in 2025 dollars US$ thousands

Published pay rose 29.4% over the five years to 2025. Adjusted for inflation it still rose 8.9% — pay has outrun prices since 2021. The two lines meet at the right edge by construction, since 2025 is the base year.

Sources

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
200 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
Occupation
SOC 35-9011, Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers. Mapped to our taxonomy as dining-room-and-cafeteria-attendants-and-bartender-helpers.

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