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Project Management Specialists

Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA metropolitan area. Estimated employment 21,060.

Data released May 2025 BLS OEWS · SOC 13-1082
Fig. 1 — The wage rule

Where you sit in the distribution

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$103,400 · 50th
$60,69010th
$79,20025th
$103,40050th
$133,88075th
$165,11090th

That is the medianhalf of project management specialists in Atlanta earn more.

Table 1 — Adjusted

$103,400 in Atlanta buys what $103,300 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.

Fig. 2 — The ladder

What comes next

Median offered base pay by seniority for Project Management Specialists in Atlanta, classified from job titles on visa filings.

Mid
$95,680
Senior
$137,319
Lead
$143,700
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
Warner Robins$116,980$124,70093.8+20.7%
Atlanta This page$103,400$103,300100.1
Augusta$101,280$110,20091.9+6.6%
Savannah$98,930$103,90095.2+0.6%
Albany$98,850$112,80087.7+9.1%
Dalton$98,590$109,70089.8+6.2%
Columbus$98,470$110,30089.3+6.7%
Rome$89,320$99,10090.2−4.1%

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

Fig. 3 — 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 5.5% over the five years to 2025. Adjusted for inflation it fell 11.2% — 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.
Career ladder
Seniority classified from job titles on the same visa filings; levels shown only with five or more filings each and a strictly rising progression.
Inflation
Real figures deflate by CPI-U annual averages (BLS, all items, US city average).
Employment
21,060 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
Occupation
SOC 13-1082, Project Management Specialists. Mapped to our taxonomy as project-management-specialists.

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