East-Central Montana nonmetropolitan area Salaries
BLS nonmetropolitan reporting area wages for East-Central Montana nonmetropolitan area (May 2025)
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 3000006 · East-Central Montana nonmetropolitan area $55K mean
MEAN-LOW · RPP-UNK · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-UNK · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST
- MEAN-LOW #347/528
- RPP-UNK RPP n/a
- OCC-MID 260 occs
- TOP-LEAD Family Medicin… · $470K
- EMP-MIX Medical and…
- TREND-UNK Pay chg n/a
- PHOTO-FINISH Lake Charles, LA
- BOOK-MOST 254 rows · May 2025
Read with Lake Charles, LA ($11 on published-row mean) · Understanding BLS wage data
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 East-Central Montana nonmet…
Largest published OEWS rows in this nonmetropolitan area
Medical and Health Services Managers and Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers lead published employment inside East-Central Montana nonmetropolitan area's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Medical and Health Services Managers 280 jobs · $108,410
- 2. Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers 210 jobs · $101,900
- 3. Lawyers 210 jobs · $100,390
- 4. Financial Managers 160 jobs · $106,890
- 5. Pharmacists 150 jobs · $144,900
- 6. Detectives and Criminal Investigators 150 jobs · $106,330
- 7. Nurse Practitioners 140 jobs · $143,450
- 8. Construction Managers 140 jobs · $106,810
- 9. Computer and Information Systems Managers 100 jobs · $120,900
- 10. Physical Therapists 90 jobs · $100,640
- 11. Sales Managers 80 jobs · $169,200
- 12. Dental Hygienists 70 jobs · $97,740
- 13. Family Medicine Physicians 60 jobs · $469,580
- 14. Physician Assistants 60 jobs · $147,700
- 15. Marketing Managers 50 jobs · $151,930
- 16. Human Resources Managers 50 jobs · $119,690
- 17. Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products 50 jobs · $109,660
- 18. Physicians, All Other 40 jobs · $299,750
Occupations Tracked
260
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$55,249
employment-weighted, 254 complete rows
Top Salary
$469,580
Family Medicine Physicians
Top-pay occupations in East-Central Montana nonmetropolitan area, 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 East-Central Montana nonmetropolitan area
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Gambling and Sports Book Writers and Runners | $21,940 |
| Waiters and Waitresses | $22,880 |
| Gambling Service Workers, All Other | $25,310 |
| Cooks, Fast Food | $26,260 |
| Bartenders | $26,920 |
| Substitute Teachers, Short-Term | $27,340 |
| Driver/Sales Workers | $27,540 |
| Food Preparation and Serving Related Workers, All Other | $28,270 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $28,550 |
| Packers and Packagers, Hand | $28,730 |
Other BLS Wage Areas in MT
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 MT. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($55,249 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 local-area 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.