Career Insights & Wage Trends
Explore career insights, salary trends, and wage data analysis across occupations, states, and industries.
Top Paying Occupations
| Rank | Occupation | Annual Median |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Prosthodontists | — |
| 2 | Orthodontists | — |
| 3 | Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons | — |
| 4 | Entertainers and Performers, Sports and Related Workers, All Other | — |
| 5 | Disc Jockeys, Except Radio | — |
| 6 | Miscellaneous Entertainers and Performers, Sports and Related Workers | — |
| 7 | Actors | — |
| 8 | Surgeons, All Other | — |
| 9 | Pediatric Surgeons | — |
| 10 | Orthopedic Surgeons, Except Pediatric | — |
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Accounting, Tax Preparation, Bookkeeping, and Payroll Services
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Agents and Managers for Artists, Athletes, Entertainers, and Other Public Figures
Air Transportation
Alumina and Aluminum Production and Processing
Ambulatory Health Care Services
Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries
Amusement Parks and Arcades
Animal Food Manufacturing
Animal Slaughtering and Processing
Apparel Accessories and Other Apparel Manufacturing
Apparel Knitting Mills
Apparel Manufacturing
Apparel, Piece Goods, and Notions Merchant Wholesalers
Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services
Audio and Video Equipment Manufacturing
Automobile Dealers
Automotive Equipment Rental and Leasing
Automotive Parts, Accessories, and Tire Retailers
Automotive Repair and Maintenance
Bakeries and Tortilla Manufacturing
Beer, Wine, and Liquor Retailers
Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing
Beverage Manufacturing
Biomass Electric Power Generation
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Broadcasting and Content Providers
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Building Material and Supplies Dealers
Business, Professional, Labor, Political, and Similar Organizations
Business Schools and Computer and Management Training
Business Support Services
Charter Bus Industry
Chemical Manufacturing
Chemical Manufacturing (3251, 3252, 3253, and 3259 only)
Chemical Manufacturing (3255 and 3256 only)
Child Care Services
Civic and Social Organizations
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Clothing, Clothing Accessories, Shoe, and Jewelry Retailers
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Commercial and Service Industry Machinery Manufacturing
Communications Equipment Manufacturing
Community Food and Housing, and Emergency and Other Relief Services
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Computer and Peripheral Equipment Manufacturing
Computer Systems Design and Related Services
Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services
Construction of Buildings
Continuing Care Retirement Communities and Assisted Living Facilities for the Elderly
Converted Paper Product Manufacturing
Couriers and Express Delivery Services
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Credit Intermediation and Related Activities
Credit Intermediation and Related Activities (5221 and 5223 only)
Cross-industry
Cut and Sew Apparel Manufacturing
Dairy Product Manufacturing
Death Care Services
Deep Sea, Coastal, and Great Lakes Water Transportation
Direct Health and Medical Insurance Carriers
Direct Insurance (except Life, Health, and Medical) Carriers
Drinking Places (Alcoholic Beverages)
Drycleaning and Laundry Services
Drywall and Insulation Contractors
Educational Services
Educational Support Services
Electrical Contractors and Other Wiring Installation Contractors
Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing
Electrical Equipment Manufacturing
Electric Lighting Equipment Manufacturing
Electric Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution
Electronic and Precision Equipment Repair and Maintenance
Electronics and Appliance Retailers
Elementary and Secondary Schools
Employment Services
Engineering Services
Engine, Turbine, and Power Transmission Equipment Manufacturing
Exterminating and Pest Control Services
Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing
Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing (3321, 3322, 3325, 3326, and 3329 only)
Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing (3323 and 3324 only)
Fabric Mills
Facilities Support Services
Farm and Garden Machinery and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers
Farm Product Raw Material Merchant Wholesalers
Federal Executive Branch (OEWS Designation)
Federal, State, and Local Government, excluding State and Local Government Schools and Hospitals and the U.S. Postal Service (OEWS Designation)
Fiber, Yarn, and Thread Mills
Florists
Food and Beverage Retailers
Food and Beverage Retailers (4451 and 4452 only)
Food Manufacturing
Food Services and Drinking Places
Footwear Manufacturing
Forestry and Logging
Fossil Fuel Electric Power Generation
Foundation, Structure, and Building Exterior Contractors
Foundries
Freight Transportation Arrangement
Fruit and Vegetable Preserving and Specialty Food Manufacturing
Fuel Dealers
Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles
Furniture and Home Furnishings Retailers
Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing
Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing (3371 and 3372 only)
Furniture, Home Furnishings, Electronics, and Appliance Retailers
Gambling Industries
Gasoline Stations
Gasoline Stations and Fuel Dealers
General Medical and Surgical Hospitals
General Merchandise Retailers
Geothermal Electric Power Generation
Grain and Oilseed Milling
Grantmaking and Giving Services
Health and Personal Care Retailers
Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction
Highway, Street, and Bridge Construction
Home Health Care Services
Hospitals
Household Appliance Manufacturing
Hydroelectric Power Generation
Independent Artists, Writers, and Performers
Individual and Family Services
Inland Water Transportation
Insurance Agencies and Brokerages
Insurance and Employee Benefit Funds
Insurance Carriers
Insurance Carriers and Related Activities
Interurban and Rural Bus Transportation
Investigation and Security Services
Investigation, Guard, and Armored Car Services
Iron and Steel Mills and Ferroalloy Manufacturing
Jewelry and Silverware Manufacturing
Jewelry, Luggage, and Leather Goods Retailers
Junior Colleges
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Lawn and Garden Equipment and Supplies Retailers
Leather and Allied Product Manufacturing
Leather and Hide Tanning and Finishing
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Lessors of Nonfinancial Intangible Assets (except Copyrighted Works)
Local Government, excluding Schools and Hospitals (OEWS Designation)
Local Messengers and Local Delivery
Logging
Machinery, Equipment, and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers
Machinery Manufacturing
Machinery Manufacturing (3331, 3332, 3334, and 3339 only)
Machine Shops
Machine Shops; Turned Product; and Screw, Nut, and Bolt Manufacturing
Management of Companies and Enterprises
Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services
Manufacturing and Reproducing Magnetic and Optical Media
Masonry Contractors
Media Streaming Distribution Services, Social Networks, and Other Media Networks and Content Providers
Medical and Diagnostic Laboratories
Medical Equipment and Supplies Manufacturing
Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods
Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods (4232, 4233, 4235, 4236, 4237, and 4239 only)
Merchant Wholesalers, Nondurable Goods
Merchant Wholesalers, Nondurable Goods (4241, 4247, and 4249 only)
Merchant Wholesalers, Nondurable Goods (4242 and 4246 only)
Merchant Wholesalers, Nondurable Goods (4244 and 4248 only)
Metal Ore Mining
Metalworking Machinery Manufacturing
Mining (except Oil and Gas)
Miscellaneous Manufacturing
Miscellaneous Store Retailers (4594 and 4595 only)
Monetary Authorities-Central Bank
Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries
Motion Picture and Video Exhibition
Motion Picture and Video Industries
Motor Vehicle and Motor Vehicle Parts and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers
Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers
Motor Vehicle Body and Trailer Manufacturing
Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
Motor Vehicle Parts Manufacturing
Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions
Natural Gas Distribution
Navigational, Measuring, Electromedical, and Control Instruments Manufacturing
Newspaper, Periodical, Book, and Directory Publishers
Newspaper Publishers
Nondepository Credit Intermediation
Nonferrous Metal (except Aluminum) Production and Processing
Nonmetallic Mineral Mining and Quarrying
Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing
Nonresidential Building Construction
Nonscheduled Air Transportation
Nuclear Electric Power Generation
Nursing and Residential Care Facilities
Nursing Care Facilities (Skilled Nursing Facilities)
Office Administrative Services
Offices of All Other Health Practitioners
Offices of Chiropractors
Offices of Dentists
Offices of Mental Health Practitioners (except Physicians)
Offices of Optometrists
Offices of Other Health Practitioners
Offices of Physical, Occupational and Speech Therapists, and Audiologists
Offices of Physicians
Oil and Gas Extraction
Other Ambulatory Health Care Services
Other Amusement and Recreation Industries
Other Building Equipment Contractors
Other Electrical Equipment and Component Manufacturing
Other Electric Power Generation
Other Food Manufacturing
Other Furniture Related Product Manufacturing
Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction
Other Insurance Related Activities
Other Investment Pools and Funds
Other Leather and Allied Product Manufacturing
Other Miscellaneous Manufacturing
Other Miscellaneous Retailers
Other Motor Vehicle Dealers
Other Nondepository Credit Intermediation
Other Personal Services
Other Pipeline Transportation
Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
Other Residential Care Facilities
Other Schools and Instruction
Other Specialty Trade Contractors
Other Support Activities for Transportation
Other Support Services
Other Textile Product Mills
Other Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation
Other Transportation Equipment Manufacturing
Other Wood Product Manufacturing
Outpatient Care Centers
Painting and Wall Covering Contractors
Paper Manufacturing
Performing Arts Companies
Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries
Personal and Household Goods Repair and Maintenance
Personal and Laundry Services
Personal Care Services
Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing
Pharmaceutical and Medicine Manufacturing
Pharmacies and Drug Retailers
Photographic Services
Pipeline Transportation
Pipeline Transportation of Crude Oil
Pipeline Transportation of Natural Gas
Plastics and Rubber Products Manufacturing
Plastics Product Manufacturing
Plumbing, Heating, and Air-Conditioning Contractors
Postal Service (Federal Government)
Poured Concrete Foundation and Structure Contractors
Power and Communication Line and Related Structures Construction
Primary Metal Manufacturing
Printing and Related Support Activities
Professional and Commercial Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
Promoters of Performing Arts, Sports, and Similar Events
Psychiatric and Substance Abuse Hospitals
Publishing Industries
Pulp, Paper, and Paperboard Mills
Radio and Television Broadcasting Stations
Radio Broadcasting Stations
Railroad Rolling Stock Manufacturing
Rail Transportation
Real Estate
Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations
Religious Organizations
Remediation and Other Waste Management Services
Rental and Leasing Services
Rental and Leasing Services (5322, 5323, and 5324 only)
Repair and Maintenance
Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences
Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities
Residential Building Construction
Residential Intellectual and Developmental Disability, Mental Health, and Substance Abuse Facilities
Restaurants and Other Eating Places
Roofing Contractors
Rooming and Boarding Houses, Dormitories, and Workers' Camps
Rubber Product Manufacturing
RV (Recreational Vehicle) Parks and Recreational Camps
Sawmills and Wood Preservation
Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation
Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation, Land
Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation, Other
Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation, Water
Scheduled Air Transportation
School and Employee Bus Transportation
Scientific Research and Development Services
Seafood Product Preparation and Packaging
Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities
Security Systems Services
Semiconductor and Other Electronic Component Manufacturing
Services to Buildings and Dwellings
Ship and Boat Building
Shoe Retailers
Social Advocacy Organizations
Social Assistance
Software Publishers
Solar Electric Power Generation
Sound Recording Industries
Special Food Services
Specialized Design Services
Specialty (except Psychiatric and Substance Abuse) Hospitals
Specialty Trade Contractors
Spectator Sports
Sporting Goods, Hobby, and Musical Instrument Retailers
Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, Book, and Miscellaneous Retailers
Sporting Goods Retailers
State Government, excluding Schools and Hospitals (OEWS Designation)
Steel Product Manufacturing from Purchased Steel
Sugar and Confectionery Product Manufacturing
Support Activities for Agriculture and Forestry
Support Activities for Air Transportation
Support Activities for Animal Production
Support Activities for Crop Production
Support Activities for Mining
Support Activities for Rail Transportation
Support Activities for Road Transportation
Support Activities for Transportation
Support Activities for Water Transportation
Taxi and Limousine Service
Technical and Trade Schools
Telecommunications
Television Broadcasting Stations
Temporary Help Services
Testing Laboratories and Services
Textile and Fabric Finishing and Fabric Coating Mills
Textile Furnishings Mills
Textile Mills
Textile Product Mills
Tobacco Manufacturing
Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation
Transportation Equipment Manufacturing
Travel Arrangement and Reservation Services
Traveler Accommodation
Truck Transportation
Turned Product and Screw, Nut, and Bolt Manufacturing
Urban Transit Systems
Utilities
Utility System Construction
Veneer, Plywood, and Engineered Wood Product Manufacturing
Veterinary Services
Vocational Rehabilitation Services
Warehousing and Storage
Waste Collection
Waste Management and Remediation Services
Waste Treatment and Disposal
Water, Sewage and Other Systems
Water Transportation
Web Search Portals, Libraries, Archives, and Other Information Services
Wholesale Trade Agents and Brokers
Wind Electric Power Generation
Wood Product Manufacturing
