29 Series · SOC 29-1126

Respiratory Therapists

National salary data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (May 2024)

Median Salary

$80,450

per year

Median Hourly

$38.68/hr

per hour

Mean Salary

$84,260

average

Employment

136,420

jobs nationwide

Salary Range

Annual Salary Distribution

$61,900$68,410$80,450$95,530$108,820
10th pct25thMedian75th90th pct

Hourly Rate Distribution

$29.76$32.89$38.68$45.93$52.32
10th pct25thMedian75th90th pct

10th Percentile

$61,900

25th Percentile

$68,410

Median

$80,450

75th Percentile

$95,530

90th Percentile

$108,820

Salary by State

Highest Paying States

1. District of Columbia $104,240 2. New York $103,820 3. California $102,120 4. New Jersey $98,020 5. Washington $97,150

Lowest Paying States

48. Puerto Rico $32,510 49. Mississippi $61,320 50. Alabama $64,010 51. South Dakota $64,720 52. Tennessee $65,000
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# State Median Salary vs National
1 District of Columbia $104,240 +30% above national
2 New York $103,820 +29% above national
3 California $102,120 +27% above national
4 New Jersey $98,020 +22% above national
5 Washington $97,150 +21% above national
6 Massachusetts $96,940 +20% above national
7 Oregon $96,130 +19% above national
8 Hawaii $94,670 +18% above national
9 Alaska $94,210 +17% above national
10 Minnesota $88,040 +9% above national
11 Delaware $87,380 +9% above national
12 Maryland $85,570 +6% above national
13 New Hampshire $83,620 +4% above national
14 Rhode Island $83,600 +4% above national
15 Connecticut $83,250 +3% above national
16 Wisconsin $82,160 +2% above national
17 Georgia $81,890 +2% above national
18 Illinois $81,310 +1% above national
19 Montana $80,950 +1% above national
20 Colorado $80,690 same as national
21 Florida $79,710 1% below national
22 Virginia $79,600 1% below national
23 Nevada $79,510 1% below national
24 Maine $79,330 1% below national
25 Arizona $79,290 1% below national
26 Utah $78,990 2% below national
27 Nebraska $78,880 2% below national
28 Vermont $78,760 2% below national
29 Ohio $78,400 3% below national
30 Indiana $77,820 3% below national
31 Texas $77,550 4% below national
32 Michigan $77,460 4% below national
33 North Carolina $77,050 4% below national
34 North Dakota $76,660 5% below national
35 Pennsylvania $76,160 5% below national
36 Oklahoma $76,080 5% below national
37 South Carolina $75,960 6% below national
38 Wyoming $75,900 6% below national
39 Idaho $75,510 6% below national
40 Missouri $73,880 8% below national
41 Kansas $73,580 9% below national
42 Louisiana $70,140 13% below national
43 Iowa $68,790 14% below national
44 Arkansas $67,960 16% below national
45 New Mexico $66,460 17% below national
46 West Virginia $66,370 18% below national
47 Kentucky $65,670 18% below national
48 Tennessee $65,000 19% below national
49 South Dakota $64,720 20% below national
50 Alabama $64,010 20% below national
51 Mississippi $61,320 24% below national
52 Puerto Rico $32,510 60% below national

Salary by Metro Area

Highest Paying Metros

1. San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA $137,080 2. Vallejo, CA $132,520 3. San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA $131,320 4. Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA $129,640 5. Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA $129,180

Lowest Paying Metros

388. Ponce, PR $24,800 389. Mayaguez, PR $25,650 390. San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR $33,800 391. Tuscaloosa, AL $49,860 392. Lower East Mississippi nonmetropolitan area $51,380
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# Metro Area Median Salary vs National
1 San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA $137,080 +70% above national
2 Vallejo, CA $132,520 +65% above national
3 San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA $131,320 +63% above national
4 Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA $129,640 +61% above national
5 Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA $129,180 +61% above national
6 Redding, CA $119,560 +49% above national
7 North Valley-Northern Mountains Region of California nonmetropolitan area $105,560 +31% above national
8 Eastern Sierra-Mother Lode Region of California nonmetropolitan area $105,320 +31% above national
9 Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA $104,890 +30% above national
10 New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ $104,840 +30% above national
11 Modesto, CA $103,820 +29% above national
12 San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA $102,590 +28% above national
13 Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA $101,250 +26% above national
14 Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA $100,970 +26% above national
15 Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ $100,780 +25% above national
16 Anchorage, AK $100,170 +25% above national
17 Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH $99,780 +24% above national
18 Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA $99,780 +24% above national
19 Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA $98,910 +23% above national
20 Bakersfield-Delano, CA $98,590 +23% above national
21 Merced, CA $98,150 +22% above national
22 Vineland, NJ $98,020 +22% above national
23 Stockton-Lodi, CA $97,280 +21% above national
24 Bellingham, WA $97,150 +21% above national
25 Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA $97,080 +21% above national
26 Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV $96,620 +20% above national
27 Kennewick-Richland, WA $96,480 +20% above national
28 North Coast Region of California nonmetropolitan area $95,780 +19% above national
29 Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY $95,530 +19% above national
30 Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA $95,480 +19% above national
31 Eastern Washington nonmetropolitan area $95,400 +19% above national
32 Urban Honolulu, HI $94,670 +18% above national
33 Alaska nonmetropolitan area $94,550 +18% above national
34 Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA $94,530 +18% above national
35 Rochester, MN $93,820 +17% above national
36 Central Oregon nonmetropolitan area $93,180 +16% above national
37 Western Washington nonmetropolitan area $92,810 +15% above national
38 Coast Oregon nonmetropolitan area $92,510 +15% above national
39 Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI $92,220 +15% above national
40 Eastern Oregon nonmetropolitan area $90,500 +12% above national
41 Wasatch Front Fringe Utah nonmetropolitan area $89,240 +11% above national
42 Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA $88,870 +10% above national
43 Boulder, CO $88,310 +10% above national
44 Reno, NV $87,880 +9% above national
45 Sussex Delaware nonmetropolitan area $87,080 +8% above national
46 Albany, GA $86,870 +8% above national
47 Northwest Colorado nonmetropolitan area $86,690 +8% above national
48 Worcester, MA $85,920 +7% above national
49 Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD $85,680 +7% above national
50 Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT $85,540 +6% above national
51 Central East New York nonmetropolitan area $85,190 +6% above national
52 Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD $84,870 +5% above national
53 Fresno, CA $84,650 +5% above national
54 Eugene-Springfield, OR $83,960 +4% above national
55 Fort Collins-Loveland, CO $83,900 +4% above national
56 Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY $83,680 +4% above national
57 Charlottesville, VA $83,680 +4% above national
58 Raleigh-Cary, NC $83,580 +4% above national
59 Manchester-Nashua, NH $83,560 +4% above national
60 Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL $83,520 +4% above national
61 Racine-Mount Pleasant, WI $83,510 +4% above national
62 Rochester, NY $83,370 +4% above national
63 Providence-Warwick, RI-MA $83,300 +4% above national
64 Lexington Park, MD $83,160 +3% above national
65 Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI $83,010 +3% above national
66 Kenosha, WI $82,990 +3% above national
67 New Haven, CT $82,970 +3% above national
68 Capital/Northern New York nonmetropolitan area $82,940 +3% above national
69 Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN $82,900 +3% above national
70 Binghamton, NY $82,850 +3% above national
71 Syracuse, NY $82,850 +3% above national
72 Jackson, MI $82,840 +3% above national
73 Burlington, NC $82,780 +3% above national
74 Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH $82,780 +3% above national
75 Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY $82,770 +3% above national
76 Southwest New York nonmetropolitan area $82,440 +2% above national
77 Northwest Minnesota nonmetropolitan area $82,070 +2% above national
78 Springfield, MA $82,000 +2% above national
79 Naples-Marco Island, FL $81,910 +2% above national
80 Kankakee, IL $81,890 +2% above national
81 North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL $81,740 +2% above national
82 Ann Arbor, MI $81,720 +2% above national
83 Madison, WI $81,690 +2% above national
84 Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX $81,640 +1% above national
85 Asheville, NC $81,610 +1% above national
86 Eastern and Southern Colorado nonmetropolitan area $81,610 +1% above national
87 Lewiston-Auburn, ME $81,520 +1% above national
88 Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO $81,490 +1% above national
89 Reading, PA $81,440 +1% above national
90 Columbus, OH $81,390 +1% above national
91 South Florida nonmetropolitan area $81,370 +1% above national
92 Appleton, WI $81,350 +1% above national
93 West Montana nonmetropolitan area $81,290 +1% above national
94 Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL $81,270 +1% above national
95 Northern New Hampshire nonmetropolitan area $81,250 +1% above national
96 Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT $81,060 +1% above national
97 Billings, MT $81,050 +1% above national
98 Janesville-Beloit, WI $81,050 +1% above national
99 Utica-Rome, NY $81,020 +1% above national
100 Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL $80,950 +1% above national
101 Southern Vermont nonmetropolitan area $80,800 same as national
102 Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ $80,750 same as national
103 Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL $80,620 same as national
104 Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN $80,570 same as national
105 Winston-Salem, NC $80,560 same as national
106 Evansville, IN $80,540 same as national
107 Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL $80,540 same as national
108 Pittsfield, MA $80,520 same as national
109 Greensboro-High Point, NC $80,460 same as national
110 South Central Wisconsin nonmetropolitan area $80,410 same as national
111 Colorado Springs, CO $80,400 same as national
112 Northeastern Wisconsin nonmetropolitan area $80,390 same as national
113 Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL $80,350 same as national
114 Norwich-New London-Willimantic, CT $80,240 same as national
115 Duluth, MN-WI $80,200 same as national
116 Richmond, VA $80,070 same as national
117 Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC $79,960 1% below national
118 Kansas City, MO-KS $79,950 1% below national
119 Waterbury-Shelton, CT $79,920 1% below national
120 Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN $79,730 1% below national
121 Port St. Lucie, FL $79,710 1% below national
122 Omaha, NE-IA $79,660 1% below national
123 Missoula, MT $79,440 1% below national
124 Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV $79,390 1% below national
125 Portland-South Portland, ME $79,330 1% below national
126 Lancaster, PA $79,250 1% below national
127 Ogden, UT $79,240 2% below national
128 Fargo, ND-MN $79,160 2% below national
129 Western Wisconsin nonmetropolitan area $79,090 2% below national
130 Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX $79,000 2% below national
131 Provo-Orem-Lehi, UT $78,990 2% below national
132 Williamsport, PA $78,940 2% below national
133 Sebastian-Vero Beach-West Vero Corridor, FL $78,920 2% below national
134 Eau Claire, WI $78,890 2% below national
135 Northeast Nebraska nonmetropolitan area $78,880 2% below national
136 Wilmington, NC $78,810 2% below national
137 Athens-Clarke County, GA $78,790 2% below national
138 Tucson, AZ $78,720 2% below national
139 Muncie, IN $78,670 2% below national
140 Northern Vermont nonmetropolitan area $78,660 2% below national
141 Northwestern Idaho nonmetropolitan area $78,630 2% below national
142 Battle Creek, MI $78,520 2% below national
143 Lake Havasu City-Kingman, AZ $78,460 2% below national
144 High Desert Utah nonmetropolitan area $78,390 3% below national
145 Grand Junction, CO $78,360 3% below national
146 Eastern Wyoming nonmetropolitan area $78,340 3% below national
147 Toledo, OH $78,310 3% below national
148 Bangor, ME $78,290 3% below national
149 Balance of Nevada nonmetropolitan area $78,270 3% below national
150 Columbia, SC $78,220 3% below national
151 Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, FL $78,190 3% below national
152 Northwestern Region of Texas nonmetropolitan area $78,170 3% below national
153 Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI $78,160 3% below national
154 Green Bay, WI $78,150 3% below national
155 Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN $78,140 3% below national
156 Cleveland, OH $78,130 3% below national
157 Northeast Maine nonmetropolitan area $78,100 3% below national
158 Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ $78,070 3% below national
159 Salt Lake City-Murray, UT $78,040 3% below national
160 Slidell-Mandeville-Covington, LA $78,040 3% below national
161 Pueblo, CO $77,780 3% below national
162 South Nebraska nonmetropolitan area $77,780 3% below national
163 Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC $77,730 3% below national
164 Dalton, GA $77,720 3% below national
165 Southwest Maine nonmetropolitan area $77,720 3% below national
166 Charleston-North Charleston, SC $77,700 3% below national
167 Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX $77,680 3% below national
168 Terre Haute, IN $77,630 4% below national
169 New Orleans-Metairie, LA $77,590 4% below national
170 Arizona nonmetropolitan area $77,590 4% below national
171 Northwest Virginia nonmetropolitan area $77,510 4% below national
172 Amarillo, TX $77,490 4% below national
173 Macon-Bibb County, GA $77,410 4% below national
174 Bismarck, ND $77,390 4% below national
175 Durham-Chapel Hill, NC $77,390 4% below national
176 Niles, MI $77,320 4% below national
177 Elkhart-Goshen, IN $77,290 4% below national
178 Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN $77,260 4% below national
179 Oklahoma City, OK $77,210 4% below national
180 Tulsa, OK $77,200 4% below national
181 Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI $77,160 4% below national
182 Sierra Vista-Douglas, AZ $77,070 4% below national
183 Jacksonville, FL $77,020 4% below national
184 Maryland nonmetropolitan area $76,980 4% below national
185 Rockford, IL $76,740 5% below national
186 Topeka, KS $76,640 5% below national
187 Florence, SC $76,510 5% below national
188 Longview, TX $76,490 5% below national
189 Northwest Iowa nonmetropolitan area $76,480 5% below national
190 Champaign-Urbana, IL $76,470 5% below national
191 Southwest Iowa nonmetropolitan area $76,420 5% below national
192 Savannah, GA $76,400 5% below national
193 Victoria, TX $76,360 5% below national
194 Ames, IA $76,340 5% below national
195 Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA $76,340 5% below national
196 Killeen-Temple, TX $76,340 5% below national
197 York-Hanover, PA $76,230 5% below national
198 Central Indiana nonmetropolitan area $76,210 5% below national
199 Akron, OH $76,100 5% below national
200 Lake Charles, LA $76,100 5% below national
201 Bloomington, IN $76,090 5% below national
202 Eastern Ohio nonmetropolitan area $76,010 6% below national
203 Springfield, IL $75,950 6% below national
204 Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA $75,920 6% below national
205 San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX $75,920 6% below national
206 Lincoln, NE $75,840 6% below national
207 Tyler, TX $75,830 6% below national
208 North Georgia nonmetropolitan area $75,830 6% below national
209 Northwest Illinois nonmetropolitan area $75,710 6% below national
210 St. Louis, MO-IL $75,570 6% below national
211 Boise City, ID $75,510 6% below national
212 Southern South Carolina nonmetropolitan area $75,460 6% below national
213 Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL $75,360 6% below national
214 Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC $75,310 6% below national
215 Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV $75,270 6% below national
216 Canton-Massillon, OH $75,220 7% below national
217 Springfield, OH $75,210 7% below national
218 Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC $75,130 7% below national
219 Flint, MI $75,100 7% below national
220 Fayetteville, NC $75,090 7% below national
221 Southeast-Central Idaho nonmetropolitan area $75,050 7% below national
222 Lynchburg, VA $74,770 7% below national
223 Southern Michigan nonmetropolitan area $74,730 7% below national
224 Northeastern South Carolina nonmetropolitan area $74,700 7% below national
225 Bloomington, IL $74,670 7% below national
226 Fort Wayne, IN $74,610 7% below national
227 Shreveport-Bossier City, LA $74,580 7% below national
228 North Region of Texas nonmetropolitan area $74,580 7% below national
229 Panama City-Panama City Beach, FL $74,540 7% below national
230 Peoria, IL $74,480 7% below national
231 Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC $74,460 7% below national
232 Hill Country Region of Texas nonmetropolitan area $74,400 8% below national
233 South Illinois nonmetropolitan area $74,320 8% below national
234 Tallahassee, FL $74,220 8% below national
235 Columbus, GA-AL $74,210 8% below national
236 Eastern New Mexico nonmetropolitan area $74,200 8% below national
237 Montgomery, AL $74,160 8% below national
238 Central Pennsylvania nonmetropolitan area $74,160 8% below national
239 Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL $74,090 8% below national
240 Southwest Missouri nonmetropolitan area $74,080 8% below national
241 Alexandria, LA $73,920 8% below national
242 Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC $73,830 8% below national
243 Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH $73,720 8% below national
244 Mansfield, OH $73,580 9% below national
245 Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR $73,500 9% below national
246 Hammond, LA $73,470 9% below national
247 Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN $73,410 9% below national
248 Iowa City, IA $73,270 9% below national
249 Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA $73,270 9% below national
250 North Missouri nonmetropolitan area $73,240 9% below national
251 Southeast Oklahoma nonmetropolitan area $73,240 9% below national
252 Yuma, AZ $73,150 9% below national
253 West Northwestern Ohio nonmetropolitan area $73,090 9% below national
254 Chattanooga, TN-GA $73,050 9% below national
255 Northwest Oklahoma nonmetropolitan area $72,800 10% below national
256 Southwest Oklahoma nonmetropolitan area $72,790 10% below national
257 North Northeastern Ohio nonmetropolitan area (noncontiguous) $72,710 10% below national
258 Youngstown-Warren, OH $72,570 10% below national
259 Sherman-Denison, TX $72,130 10% below national
260 Northeastern Pennsylvania nonmetropolitan area $71,980 11% below national
261 Daphne-Fairhope-Foley, AL $71,970 11% below national
262 El Paso, TX $71,970 11% below national
263 East Central Illinois nonmetropolitan area $71,920 11% below national
264 Western Wyoming nonmetropolitan area $71,890 11% below national
265 Lima, OH $71,850 11% below national
266 Northern Michigan nonmetropolitan area $71,810 11% below national
267 Northwestern South Carolina nonmetropolitan area $71,780 11% below national
268 Middle Georgia nonmetropolitan area $71,610 11% below national
269 Fort Smith, AR-OK $71,520 11% below national
270 Northern New Mexico nonmetropolitan area $71,340 11% below national
271 Upper Peninsula of Michigan nonmetropolitan area $70,800 12% below national
272 North Florida nonmetropolitan area $70,720 12% below national
273 Northern Indiana nonmetropolitan area $70,570 12% below national
274 Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR $70,380 13% below national
275 Texarkana, TX-AR $70,250 13% below national
276 Waco, TX $70,160 13% below national
277 Homosassa Springs, FL $69,840 13% below national
278 Monroe, LA $69,800 13% below national
279 Southeast Missouri nonmetropolitan area $69,760 13% below national
280 Kansas nonmetropolitan area $69,730 13% below national
281 Corpus Christi, TX $69,570 14% below national
282 Lansing-East Lansing, MI $69,320 14% below national
283 Southern Indiana nonmetropolitan area $69,320 14% below national
284 North Central Tennessee nonmetropolitan area $69,220 14% below national
285 Coastal Plains Region of Texas nonmetropolitan area $69,040 14% below national
286 Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX $68,920 14% below national
287 Southern Ohio nonmetropolitan area $68,740 15% below national
288 Rome, GA $68,470 15% below national
289 Enid, OK $68,460 15% below national
290 Warner Robins, GA $68,450 15% below national
291 Rocky Mount, NC $68,320 15% below national
292 Sandusky, OH $68,310 15% below national
293 Springfield, MO $68,270 15% below national
294 Southwest Louisiana nonmetropolitan area $68,220 15% below national
295 Central North Carolina nonmetropolitan area $68,210 15% below national
296 Northeast Oklahoma nonmetropolitan area $68,020 15% below national
297 Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH $67,960 16% below national
298 Lexington-Fayette, KY $67,930 16% below national
299 West Central Illinois nonmetropolitan area $67,920 16% below national
300 Morgantown, WV $67,820 16% below national
301 Wichita, KS $67,820 16% below national
302 Eastern North Carolina nonmetropolitan area $67,820 16% below national
303 Jackson, MS $67,790 16% below national
304 Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL $67,760 16% below national
305 East South Dakota nonmetropolitan area $67,740 16% below national
306 Erie, PA $67,690 16% below national
307 Abilene, TX $67,570 16% below national
308 Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA $67,550 16% below national
309 Pittsburgh, PA $67,530 16% below national
310 Wheeling, WV-OH $67,510 16% below national
311 Baton Rouge, LA $67,500 16% below national
312 Mobile, AL $67,430 16% below national
313 Mid Michigan nonmetropolitan area $67,390 16% below national
314 Huntsville, AL $67,250 16% below national
315 Southeast Iowa nonmetropolitan area $67,020 17% below national
316 Columbia, MO $66,960 17% below national
317 Greenville, NC $66,940 17% below national
318 Western North Carolina nonmetropolitan area $66,890 17% below national
319 Gainesville, FL $66,770 17% below national
320 Parkersburg-Vienna, WV $66,700 17% below national
321 South Georgia nonmetropolitan area $66,510 17% below national
322 Albuquerque, NM $66,460 17% below national
323 Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux, LA $66,430 17% below national
324 Eastern Region of Texas nonmetropolitan area $66,340 18% below national
325 Northeast Louisiana nonmetropolitan area $66,100 18% below national
326 Central Missouri nonmetropolitan area $65,880 18% below national
327 Gulfport-Biloxi, MS $65,590 18% below national
328 Kalamazoo-Portage, MI $65,550 19% below national
329 Spartanburg, SC $65,380 19% below national
330 East Georgia nonmetropolitan area $65,310 19% below national
331 Birmingham, AL $65,130 19% below national
332 Lubbock, TX $65,110 19% below national
333 Paducah, KY-IL $64,950 19% below national
334 Cedar Rapids, IA $64,930 19% below national
335 Florence-Muscle Shoals, AL $64,840 19% below national
336 Casper, WY $64,720 20% below national
337 Las Cruces, NM $64,570 20% below national
338 Central Louisiana nonmetropolitan area $64,500 20% below national
339 Lafayette, LA $64,390 20% below national
340 Northwestern Pennsylvania nonmetropolitan area $64,380 20% below national
341 Cape Girardeau, MO-IL $64,360 20% below national
342 Anniston-Oxford, AL $64,200 20% below national
343 Owensboro, KY $64,130 20% below national
344 Charleston, WV $63,970 20% below national
345 Memphis, TN-MS-AR $63,760 21% below national
346 Clarksville, TN-KY $63,730 21% below national
347 Joplin, MO-KS $63,270 21% below national
348 West Arkansas nonmetropolitan area $63,220 21% below national
349 West Kentucky nonmetropolitan area $63,170 21% below national
350 Jackson, TN $63,080 22% below national
351 McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX $63,040 22% below national
352 Northeast Iowa nonmetropolitan area $63,030 22% below national
353 South Central Kentucky nonmetropolitan area $63,010 22% below national
354 North Arkansas nonmetropolitan area $62,730 22% below national
355 South Arkansas nonmetropolitan area $62,630 22% below national
356 Southwestern Pennsylvania nonmetropolitan area $62,560 22% below national
357 South Central Tennessee nonmetropolitan area $62,560 22% below national
358 Knoxville, TN $62,530 22% below national
359 Waterloo-Cedar Falls, IA $62,420 22% below national
360 Bowling Green, KY $62,400 22% below national
361 Elizabethtown, KY $61,630 23% below national
362 Northern West Virginia nonmetropolitan area $61,600 23% below national
363 Sioux City, IA-NE-SD $61,460 24% below national
364 Jonesboro, AR $61,360 24% below national
365 Southern West Virginia nonmetropolitan area $61,280 24% below national
366 Kingsport-Bristol, TN-VA $61,230 24% below national
367 Brownsville-Harlingen, TX $61,220 24% below national
368 Sioux Falls, SD-MN $61,210 24% below national
369 Valdosta, GA $61,210 24% below national
370 West Tennessee nonmetropolitan area $61,180 24% below national
371 Beckley, WV $61,140 24% below national
372 Jacksonville, NC $60,790 24% below national
373 East Tennessee nonmetropolitan area $60,790 24% below national
374 Upper East Mississippi nonmetropolitan area $60,770 24% below national
375 Northwest Alabama nonmetropolitan area $60,520 25% below national
376 East Kentucky nonmetropolitan area $60,370 25% below national
377 Lower West Mississippi nonmetropolitan area $60,160 25% below national
378 West Delta Mississippi nonmetropolitan area $59,800 26% below national
379 Southwest Alabama nonmetropolitan area $59,400 26% below national
380 Southwest Virginia nonmetropolitan area $59,220 26% below national
381 Gadsden, AL $59,090 27% below national
382 East Arkansas nonmetropolitan area $59,070 27% below national
383 Central Kentucky nonmetropolitan area $58,830 27% below national
384 Decatur, AL $57,470 29% below national
385 Northeast Alabama nonmetropolitan area $56,720 29% below national
386 Southeast Alabama nonmetropolitan area $54,490 32% below national
387 Dothan, AL $53,170 34% below national
388 Lower East Mississippi nonmetropolitan area $51,380 36% below national
389 Tuscaloosa, AL $49,860 38% below national
390 San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR $33,800 58% below national
391 Mayaguez, PR $25,650 68% below national
392 Ponce, PR $24,800 69% below national

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Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2024. Data reflects cross-industry estimates for all ownership types.