2026 Edition · An annual reference on what work pays

Management Analysts

Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA metropolitan area. Estimated employment 26,870.

Data released May 2025 BLS OEWS · SOC 13-1111
Fig. 1 — The wage rule

Where you sit in the distribution

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$101,220 · 50th
$62,87010th
$79,79025th
$101,22050th
$132,53075th
$171,13090th

That is the medianhalf of management analysts in Atlanta earn more.

Table 1 — Adjusted

$101,220 in Atlanta buys what $101,200 buys across the country as a whole.

Atlanta's regional price parity is 100.1 — almost exactly the national average — the nominal figure is close to the real one here, which is not true of most large metros. 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. Atlanta
Atlanta This page$101,220$101,200100.1
Dalton$98,090$109,20089.8+7.9%
Warner Robins$96,930$103,30093.8+2.2%
Albany$91,760$104,70087.7+3.5%
Augusta$87,920$95,70091.9−5.4%
Columbus$83,390$93,40089.3−7.7%
Hinesville$81,330$86,60093.9−14.4%
Macon$78,600$88,80088.5−12.2%

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

Table 3 — Employers

Who pays what

Median offered salary from visa filings, which disclose employer, title and exact figure. Government wage surveys never publish at this level.

EmployerMedian offerRangeFilingsvs. metro
Ernst Young U S$201,755$100k – $205k10+99.3%
Mckinsey Company Inc United States$192,000$100k – $241k5+89.7%
Boston Consulting Group$190,000$110k – $268k16+87.7%
Deloitte Consulting$175,600$88k – $184k6+73.5%
Capgemini America$140,000$114k – $150k5+38.3%
S2 IT Group$113,381$63k – $139k17+12.0%
Ust Global$94,000$93k – $120k5−7.1%

Offer ranges and filing counts 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.

90k100k110k120k 2021202220232025
Nominal, as published Real, in 2025 dollars US$ thousands

Published pay rose 1.9% over the four years to 2025. Adjusted for inflation it fell 14.2% — prices rose faster than pay 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.
Employer pay
Department of Labor, Labor Condition Application disclosures, FY 2025. The table draws on 64 certified filings across 7 employers.
Inflation
Real figures deflate by CPI-U annual averages (BLS, all items, US city average).
Employment
26,870 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
Occupation
SOC 13-1111, Management Analysts. Mapped to our taxonomy as management-analysts.

Percentiles are reported exactly as released and are never interpolated between published values. Visa filings record offered base salary at time of application, exclude equity and bonus, and skew toward larger employers — treat the employer table as a floor, not an average. We take no payment from employers, recruiters or anyone else for how any figure is presented.