Cleveland, TN Salaries
Local wages where BEA prices sit below the US average (RPP 88.1) - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Cleveland, TN moved from $39,650 in May 2024 to $40,230 in May 2025 (+1.5%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Cleveland, TN sits -1.6 pp behind that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 17420 · Cleveland, TN $50K mean
MEAN-TRACE · RPP-LOW · OCC-THIN · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST
- MEAN-TRACE #480/528
- RPP-LOW 88.1
- OCC-THIN 198 occs
- TOP-LEAD Physicians, Al… · $221K
- EMP-MIX General and…
- TREND-INLINE -1.6 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH East Georgia non…
- BOOK-MOST 196 rows · May 2025
Read with East Georgia nonmetropolitan area ($5 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 Cleveland, TN
Where Cleveland, TN already employs the upper wage tier
General and Operations Managers and Nurse Practitioners lead published employment inside Cleveland, TN's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. General and Operations Managers 690 jobs · $92,800
- 2. Nurse Practitioners 170 jobs · $107,360
- 3. Industrial Production Managers 170 jobs · $105,780
- 4. Medical and Health Services Managers 160 jobs · $94,780
- 5. Managers, All Other 160 jobs · $86,720
- 6. Financial Managers 130 jobs · $131,860
- 7. Sales Managers 130 jobs · $123,610
- 8. Pharmacists 120 jobs · $124,160
- 9. Industrial Engineers 120 jobs · $96,360
- 10. Software Developers 110 jobs · $102,600
- 11. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 100 jobs · $99,640
- 12. Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products 80 jobs · $109,730
- 13. Administrative Services Managers 80 jobs · $96,140
- 14. Computer and Information Systems Managers 70 jobs · $125,380
- 15. Electrical Engineers 70 jobs · $104,280
- 16. Lawyers 60 jobs · $131,980
- 17. Marketing Managers 60 jobs · $114,570
- 18. Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers 60 jobs · $99,130
Occupations Tracked
198
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$49,789
employment-weighted, 196 complete rows
Top Salary
$221,420
Physicians, All Other
Cost of Living
88.1
12% below US avg
Top-pay occupations in Cleveland, TN, by employment
Same top-pay sample as the salary ranking, sorted by published local jobs so the title sequence follows the OEWS mix.
Lowest Paying Jobs in Cleveland, TN
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Cooks, All Other | $20,420 |
| Library Assistants, Clerical | $21,700 |
| Recreation Workers | $23,010 |
| Waiters and Waitresses | $23,300 |
| Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary | $23,940 |
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $24,240 |
| Food Preparation Workers | $25,430 |
| Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service Workers | $25,440 |
| Bartenders | $25,710 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $26,130 |
Other BLS Wage Areas in TN
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 TN. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($49,789 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.