BLS OEWS May 2025 Data
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Median salaries, percentile breakdowns, and local context for 825 occupations across 581 US metro areas.
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231,702+salary pages
581metro areas
825occupations
May 2025BLS OEWS data
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Common occupations
- Home Health and Personal Care Aides $31,925/yr
- Retail Salespersons $31,668/yr
- Fast Food and Counter Workers $28,651/yr
- General and Operations Managers $93,504/yr
- Registered Nurses $87,136/yr
- Cashiers $29,331/yr
- Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand $38,314/yr
- Stockers and Order Fillers $35,759/yr
- Customer Service Representatives $40,050/yr
- Office Clerks, General $40,389/yr
Top-paying metro areas
- San Jose, CA Median $94,114/yr
- San Francisco, CA Median $92,335/yr
- Seattle, WA Median $88,995/yr
- District of Columbia Median $86,212/yr
- New York, NY-NJ Median $84,499/yr
- Washington, DC-VA-MD-WV Median $80,585/yr
- Boston, MA-NH Median $80,158/yr
- Los Angeles, CA Median $79,532/yr
- Sacramento, CA Median $79,395/yr
- Bridgeport, CT Median $79,319/yr
Wages by City publishes salary data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) program, May 2025 release. Data covers 231,702 occupation × metro combinations. All figures are median annual wages. BLS data is in the public domain.