About this data
Every number on this site comes from a single public source, published unchanged apart from formatting.
Source
The Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) program of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics conducts a semi-annual survey of employers to estimate employment and wages for roughly 800 occupations. This site uses the May 2025 estimates, cross-industry, at the national and state level.
OEWS data is a work of the U.S. federal government and is in the public domain.
What the figures mean
Median annual wage is the 50th percentile of wages paid to workers in an occupation — half earn more, half earn less. It is not an average, and it is not the salary of a specific job posting.
Percentiles (10th, 25th, 75th, 90th) describe the distribution. The 10th percentile is roughly entry level; the 90th indicates experienced or senior workers.
Location quotient compares an occupation's share of local employment to its share nationally. A value of 1.0 means the occupation is exactly as common as it is nationwide; 1.5 means it is 50% more concentrated.
Employment is the estimated number of jobs, rounded by BLS to the nearest ten.
Limitations
OEWS excludes self-employed workers, and it does not capture equity compensation, bonuses or benefits. Figures are annual estimates, not offers. Estimates with high relative standard errors are published by BLS with footnotes that this site does not reproduce.