Carson City, NV Salaries
Highest published occupation medians in Carson City, NV - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Carson City, NV moved from $51,830 in May 2024 to $56,680 in May 2025 (+9.4%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Carson City, NV sits +6.3 pp ahead of that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 16180 · Carson City, NV $67K mean
MEAN-HIGH · RPP-MID · OCC-THIN · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-AHEAD · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST
- MEAN-HIGH #71/528
- RPP-MID 98.1
- OCC-THIN 174 occs
- TOP-LEAD Physicians, Al… · $257K
- EMP-MIX General and…
- TREND-AHEAD +6.3 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Barnstable Town,…
- BOOK-MOST 173 rows · May 2025
Read with Barnstable Town, MA ($71 on published-row mean) · Highest-paying careers
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 Carson City, NV
Employment scale inside Carson City, NV's top-pay list
General and Operations Managers and Registered Nurses lead published employment inside Carson City, NV's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. General and Operations Managers 890 jobs · $103,160
- 2. Registered Nurses 820 jobs · $101,370
- 3. Administrative Services Managers 220 jobs · $107,310
- 4. Financial Managers 210 jobs · $126,730
- 5. Managers, All Other 210 jobs · $104,310
- 6. Medical and Health Services Managers 200 jobs · $124,500
- 7. Lawyers 170 jobs · $142,500
- 8. Computer and Information Systems Managers 120 jobs · $129,600
- 9. Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers 110 jobs · $131,210
- 10. Sales Managers 90 jobs · $149,500
- 11. Software Developers 90 jobs · $130,500
- 12. Mechanical Engineers 90 jobs · $101,690
- 13. Construction Managers 80 jobs · $103,890
- 14. Pharmacists 60 jobs · $163,990
- 15. Chief Executives 60 jobs · $125,280
- 16. Dental Hygienists 60 jobs · $121,500
- 17. First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives 60 jobs · $120,080
- 18. Network and Computer Systems Administrators 60 jobs · $118,340
Occupations Tracked
174
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$67,160
employment-weighted, 173 complete rows
Top Salary
$257,310
Physicians, All Other
Cost of Living
98.1
2% below US avg
Highest Paying Jobs in Carson City, NV
| # | Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Physicians, All Other | $257,310 |
| 2 | Pharmacists | $163,990 |
| 3 | Sales Managers | $149,500 |
| 4 | Lawyers | $142,500 |
| 5 | Marketing Managers | $136,110 |
| 6 | Physician Assistants | $135,180 |
| 7 | Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers | $131,210 |
| 8 | Software Developers | $130,500 |
| 9 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $129,600 |
| 10 | Financial Managers | $126,730 |
| 11 | Chief Executives | $125,280 |
| 12 | Medical and Health Services Managers | $124,500 |
| 13 | Architectural and Engineering Managers | $123,300 |
| 14 | Dental Hygienists | $121,500 |
| 15 | Physical Therapists | $120,810 |
| 16 | First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives | $120,080 |
| 17 | Network and Computer Systems Administrators | $118,340 |
| 18 | Administrative Services Managers | $107,310 |
| 19 | Managers, All Other | $104,310 |
| 20 | Construction Managers | $103,890 |
| 21 | General and Operations Managers | $103,160 |
| 22 | Industrial Production Managers | $102,610 |
| 23 | Mechanical Engineers | $101,690 |
| 24 | Registered Nurses | $101,370 |
| 25 | Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers | $100,480 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in Carson City, NV
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Bartenders | $26,250 |
| Driver/Sales Workers | $26,330 |
| Waiters and Waitresses | $26,670 |
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $27,100 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $27,400 |
| Gambling Change Persons and Booth Cashiers | $28,410 |
| Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand | $28,790 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $29,070 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $30,010 |
| Animal Caretakers | $30,160 |
Other BLS Wage Areas in NV
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 NV. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($67,160 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.