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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- Family Medicine Physicians leads published medians in East-Central Montana nonmetropolitan area at $469,580/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Family Medicine Physicians
- East-Central Montana nonmetropolitan area's employment-weighted published-row mean is $55,249 across 254 occupation rows with employment estimates. Understanding BLS data
- Compare this nonmetropolitan area against the statewide occupation table for MT 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 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.