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.
Based on wage level, year-over-year wage growth, and regional-price-parity-adjusted purchasing power from BLS and BEA sources, not job availability, industry mix, or day-to-day livability.
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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How to use Cleveland, TN wage figures in a real decision
- Physicians, All Other leads published medians in Cleveland, TN at $221,420/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Physicians, All Other
- The employment-weighted published-row mean of $49,789 adjusts to about $56,527 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 88.1. Salary vs cost of living
- Compare this metropolitan statistical area against the statewide occupation table for TN before treating one geography as the other. State wage page
BLS OEWS estimates reflect the May 2025 reference period; small occupation-area cells can be suppressed, and figures are not employer offers.
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.