Cape Girardeau, MO-IL Salaries
Local wages where BEA prices sit below the US average (RPP 86.1) - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Cape Girardeau, MO-IL moved from $42,060 in May 2024 to $44,470 in May 2025 (+5.7%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Cape Girardeau, MO-IL sits +2.6 pp ahead of that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 16020 · Cape Girardeau, MO-IL $53K mean
MEAN-TRACE · RPP-QUIET · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-AHEAD · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST
- MEAN-TRACE #417/528
- RPP-QUIET 86.1
- OCC-MID 203 occs
- TOP-LEAD Pharmacists · $141K
- EMP-MIX Medical and…
- TREND-AHEAD +2.6 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Burlington, NC
- BOOK-MOST 201 rows · May 2025
Read with Burlington, NC ($12 on published-row mean) · Salary vs. cost of living
Instrument codes from this MSA’s OEWS published-row mean, BEA RPP, occupation book, employment lead, All Occupations pay change, and nearest peer — not a moving recommendation.
Published-row mean neighbourhood around Cape Girardeau, MO-IL
Where Cape Girardeau, MO-IL already employs the upper wage tier
Medical and Health Services Managers and Nurse Practitioners lead published employment inside Cape Girardeau, MO-IL's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Medical and Health Services Managers 280 jobs · $104,010
- 2. Nurse Practitioners 200 jobs · $130,000
- 3. First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers 180 jobs · $88,150
- 4. Financial Managers 120 jobs · $139,690
- 5. Lawyers 120 jobs · $94,600
- 6. Pharmacists 100 jobs · $141,250
- 7. Physical Therapists 100 jobs · $100,420
- 8. Sales Managers 100 jobs · $98,810
- 9. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 100 jobs · $96,860
- 10. Software Developers 90 jobs · $100,220
- 11. Managers, All Other 90 jobs · $98,220
- 12. Computer and Information Systems Managers 80 jobs · $128,230
- 13. Speech-Language Pathologists 80 jobs · $97,900
- 14. Industrial Production Managers 70 jobs · $133,110
- 15. Construction Managers 70 jobs · $102,980
- 16. Occupational Therapists 70 jobs · $98,990
- 17. Industrial Engineers 60 jobs · $98,650
- 18. Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers 50 jobs · $99,650
Occupations Tracked
203
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$53,045
employment-weighted, 201 complete rows
Top Salary
$141,250
Pharmacists
Cost of Living
86.1
14% below US avg
Top-pay occupations in Cape Girardeau, MO-IL, by employment
Same top-pay sample as the salary ranking, sorted by published local jobs so the title sequence follows the OEWS mix.
| # | Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Medical and Health Services Managers | $104,010 |
| 2 | Nurse Practitioners | $130,000 |
| 3 | First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers | $88,150 |
| 4 | Financial Managers | $139,690 |
| 5 | Lawyers | $94,600 |
| 6 | Pharmacists | $141,250 |
| 7 | Physical Therapists | $100,420 |
| 8 | Sales Managers | $98,810 |
| 9 | Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary | $96,860 |
| 10 | Software Developers | $100,220 |
| 11 | Managers, All Other | $98,220 |
| 12 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $128,230 |
| 13 | Speech-Language Pathologists | $97,900 |
| 14 | Industrial Production Managers | $133,110 |
| 15 | Construction Managers | $102,980 |
| 16 | Occupational Therapists | $98,990 |
| 17 | Industrial Engineers | $98,650 |
| 18 | Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers | $99,650 |
| 19 | Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers | $96,320 |
| 20 | Marketing Managers | $94,750 |
| 21 | Physician Assistants | $141,080 |
| 22 | Mechanical Engineers | $94,940 |
| 23 | Facilities Managers | $94,140 |
| 24 | Human Resources Managers | $128,240 |
| 25 | Veterinarians | $100,360 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in Cape Girardeau, MO-IL
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Residential Advisors | $28,600 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $28,600 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $28,600 |
| Bartenders | $28,600 |
| Waiters and Waitresses | $28,710 |
| Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and Cosmetologists | $28,800 |
| Cooks, Fast Food | $28,820 |
| Food Preparation Workers | $28,860 |
| Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary | $29,070 |
| Childcare Workers | $29,210 |
Other BLS Wage Areas in MO
Other metropolitan or nonmetropolitan OEWS areas assigned to the same state. Cross-state pay and employment peers live in Nationwide similar metros below.
Nationwide metros with similar published-row mean pay or employment scale
Two OEWS peer sets outside MO. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($53,045 here) and summed published employment.
Similar mean wage
Nearest other metros by employment-weighted published-row annual mean wage.
Peers are nearest-neighbor matches on BLS OEWS employment-weighted published-row mean wage and summed occupation employment. Employment peers exclude metros already listed in the mean-wage column so the two link sets stay distinct. Mean wage here is not a worker-level median.
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Source data and WageDex calculations are identified in context on this page. Occupation rows use BLS OEWS May 2025. The metro benchmark is WageDex's employment-weighted mean of published occupation means; where BEA RPP is available, the price-level figure divides that benchmark by the published area parity. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.