• Average Weekly Wages


    Sustainability / Wages

    Average weekly wages in the 7-county Pittsburgh metropolitan area in 2016 were $1,015, a year-over-year percent decrease of 0.4 percent. The region’s average weekly wages were below the benchmark average of $1,092. Pittsburgh was the only region to experience a year-over-year decline in average weekly wages among the benchmark regions. . More


  • Average Annual Pay


    Sustainability / Wages

    Although Pittsburgh has trailed benchmark regions in average annual pay for many years, that gap is narrowing. Average annual pay increased by 3.6 percent between 2010 and 2011, 3.5 percent between 2011 and 2012 and 1.8 percent between 2012 and 2013, the largest year-over-year increase of all benchmark regions that year. Pittsburgh’s average annual pay... More