Find wages by occupation and metro
| Occupation | Metro area | State | Employment | Median $/hr | Median $/yr | Mean $/yr |
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Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025. Coverage: 30 occupations × 22 metropolitan areas (— rows). Teachers are published by BLS with annual wages only, so their hourly cells are blank. Two occupation/metro cells BLS did not publish at all are omitted. Employment excludes the self-employed.
What is this data?
The Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) program surveys about 1.1 million establishments to estimate employment and wages for over 800 occupations. The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes the metro-level results as large spreadsheet workbooks that are hard to search and filter. This page repackages a useful slice, 30 widely-searched occupations across 22 major U.S. metros, as one clean CSV you can download and use in a spreadsheet, database, or script.
Each row gives one occupation in one metro area: estimated employment, median hourly wage, median annual wage, and mean (average) annual wage, exactly as published by BLS for May 2025. Cells BLS did not publish (suppressed for confidentiality or quality) are omitted rather than estimated.
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Frequently asked questions
Where does this salary data come from?
Every figure comes from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 release, retrieved via the BLS Public Data API. Metro area names follow the OMB July 2023 delineations used by BLS. No values are estimated, modeled, or scraped from job boards.
What is the difference between median and mean wage?
The median is the middle of the pay distribution: half of workers in the occupation and metro earn more, half earn less. The mean is the arithmetic average and can be pulled up by a small number of very high earners. For a typical worker's pay, the median is usually the better reference.
Why are some occupation and city combinations missing?
BLS suppresses an estimate when it does not meet publication standards for confidentiality or statistical quality. This CSV only includes cells where BLS published employment, median hourly, median annual, and mean annual wages, so a missing row means BLS did not publish that combination, not that the value is zero.
Can I use this CSV in a commercial product?
Yes. U.S. federal government works, including BLS data, are in the public domain in the United States. You may reuse, remix, and redistribute the data; attribution to the Bureau of Labor Statistics is appreciated but not legally required. (This is not legal advice.)
How current is the data, and will it be updated?
This file reflects the May 2025 OEWS release (published by BLS in 2026), the latest available. OEWS is published once a year, each spring. The premium dataset will track new releases; this free CSV covers the May 2025 vintage.