Project Management Specialists salary in Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA

The figures

The median Project Management Specialists in the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA metro area earns $103,400 a year ($49.71 an hour), according to the BLS OEWS May 2025 estimates (full citation in Sources). The middle half of Project Management Specialists in Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA earn between $79,200 and $133,880 a year. At the ends of the distribution, the lowest-paid 10 percent earn $60,690 or less and the top 10 percent earn $165,110 or more. BLS estimates 21,060 Project Management Specialists jobs in the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA area — 7.289 of every 1,000 jobs in the area, a location quotient of 1.06 (above the national concentration). That is 2.0% of all Project Management Specialists employment in the United States (1,066,670 jobs nationally). By employment, Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA is the #7 largest of the 25 covered metro areas for Project Management Specialists. In aggregate, Project Management Specialists in Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA earn about $2.33 billion a year (BLS employment multiplied by the mean wage). At the mean wage, the engine's take-home is $81,945.02 a year, so the aggregate take-home of Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA Project Management Specialists is about $1.73 billion. BLS reports a relative standard error of 4.4% for this employment estimate. Ranked by median pay, Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA stands #15 of the 25 metro areas covered on this site for Project Management Specialists. By employment, Project Management Specialists is the #28 largest of the 30 covered occupations in Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA. Placed against the national distribution for Project Management Specialists, the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA median of $103,400 falls between the national median ($102,320) and the national 75th percentile ($133,100). Across all occupations, the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA median is $51,170 a year — Project Management Specialists pay is 102.1% above the area's overall median.

Wages in detail

What the wage distribution says

The top 10 percent of Project Management Specialists in Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA earn 2.7 times what the bottom 10 percent earn ($165,110 against $60,690). The middle half spans $54,680 — from $79,200 to $133,880. Hourly, the 90th percentile ($79.38) is 2.72 times the 10th ($29.18). In the upper half of the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA distribution, the 75th percentile wage of $133,880 takes home $96,840.92 and the 90th percentile wage of $165,110 takes home $116,628.32 — $19,787.40 more net for $31,230 more gross. Against the median take-home of $77,160.54, the top decile keeps 1.51 times as much. The mean wage of $110,720 sits 7.1% above the median: higher-paid Project Management Specialists pull the average up in Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA. Among the 30 covered occupations in Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA, Project Management Specialists ranks #3 by median pay. In the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA wage ladder of covered occupations, Project Management Specialists sits between General and Operations Managers at $111,410 and Registered Nurses at $100,490. Project Management Specialists accounts for 0.7% of all employment in the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA metro area. The average covered metro employs 21,846 Project Management Specialists; Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA employs 1.0 times that.

Take-home pay on the median wage in Georgia

Single filer, no dependents, no pre-tax contributions, paid biweekly, a full year of W-2 wages in Georgia; city and local taxes are not included:

At the median, $77,160.54 of the $103,400 gross is kept ($2,967.71 per paycheck) — a deduction rate of 25.38%. The deduction rate moves with pay: 19.81% at the 10th percentile, 22.55% at the 25th percentile, 27.67% at the 75th percentile, 29.36% at the 90th percentile. Between the 25th and 75th percentile wages, annual take-home rises by $35,497.20 on a gross rise of $54,680.

The same engine at the other published points of the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA wage distribution:

Across the published distribution, take-home pay runs from $48,664.48 a year at the 10th percentile to $116,628.32 at the 90th — a spread of $67,963.84 of net pay inside one occupation and one metro area.

For scale: across all occupations, the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA median wage of $51,170 takes home $41,490.20 a year ($1,595.78 per paycheck, deduction rate 18.92%). The Project Management Specialists median take-home of $77,160.54 sits $35,670.34 (above that area-wide figure.

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Take-home pay for $103,400 in Georgia

Against the national median

Nationally, the median Project Management Specialists earns $102,320 a year ($49.19 an hour). The Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA median of $103,400 is $1,080 (1.1%) above the national median.

The means rank the area differently: $110,720 a year in Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA against $110,740 nationally, a gap of $20 (0.0%).

Set against the whole local market, the Project Management Specialists 90th percentile of $165,110 is 125% of the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA all-occupations 90th percentile ($132,230), and its 10th percentile of $60,690 is 208% of the area-wide 10th ($29,110).

Sources and method

Wage data: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 estimates (released May 15, 2026), retrieved October 27, 2026 — bls.gov/oes. OEWS figures are survey estimates for May 2025, not job offers. Take-home pay is computed by this site's paycheck engine with 2026 federal and state rules; the method, and what the engine does not model, is documented in the paycheck methodology guide. Estimates only — not tax advice.