Project Management Specialists
Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA metropolitan area. Estimated employment 21,060.
Where you sit in the distribution
That is the median — half of project management specialists in Atlanta earn more.
$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.
What comes next
Median offered base pay by seniority for Project Management Specialists in Atlanta, classified from job titles on visa filings.
The same job, elsewhere in Georgia
Adjusted figures apply each metro's regional price parity, so the columns are directly comparable.
| Metro area | Median | Adjusted | RPP | vs. Atlanta |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Warner Robins | $116,980 | $124,700 | 93.8 | +20.7% |
| Atlanta This page | $103,400 | $103,300 | 100.1 | — |
| Augusta | $101,280 | $110,200 | 91.9 | +6.6% |
| Savannah | $98,930 | $103,900 | 95.2 | +0.6% |
| Albany | $98,850 | $112,800 | 87.7 | +9.1% |
| Dalton | $98,590 | $109,700 | 89.8 | +6.2% |
| Columbus | $98,470 | $110,300 | 89.3 | +6.7% |
| Rome | $89,320 | $99,100 | 90.2 | −4.1% |
Price parity and difference against Atlanta 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 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.
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.
Percentiles are reported exactly as released and are never interpolated between published values. We take no payment from employers, recruiters or anyone else for how any figure is presented.