Eastern Washington nonmetropolitan area Salaries
BLS nonmetropolitan reporting area wages for Eastern Washington nonmetropolitan area (May 2025)
Home Health and Personal Care Aides shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Eastern Washington nonmetropolitan area
Home Health and Personal Care Aides publishes $48,110 here versus $35,800 nationally (+34.4%; 3,200metro-area jobs). Next is Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary at $45,150 locally versus $36,780 nationally (+22.8%).
- Home Health and Personal Care Aides$48,110 in Eastern Washington nonmetropolitan area sits 34.4% above the national Home Health and Personal Care Aides median of $35,800 (3,200 published local jobs).
- Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary$45,150 in Eastern Washington nonmetropolitan area sits 22.8% above the national Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary median of $36,780 (2,190 published local jobs).
- Fast Food and Counter Workers$36,930 in Eastern Washington nonmetropolitan area sits 18.4% above the national Fast Food and Counter Workers median of $31,200 (3,230 published local jobs).
- Cashiers$36,660 in Eastern Washington nonmetropolitan area sits 11.5% above the national Cashiers median of $32,880 (2,970 published local jobs).
Home Health and Personal Care Aides and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Eastern Washington nonmetropolitan area; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 5300007 · Eastern Washington nonmetropolitan area $66K mean
MEAN-HIGH · RPP-UNK · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-UNK · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-FULL
- MEAN-HIGH #84/528
- RPP-UNK RPP n/a
- OCC-MID 358 occs
- TOP-LEAD Family Medicin… · $302K
- EMP-MIX Software Dev…
- TREND-UNK Pay chg n/a
- PHOTO-FINISH Modesto, CA
- BOOK-FULL 355 rows · May 2025
Read with Modesto, CA (+$2 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 Eastern Washington nonmetro…
Largest published OEWS rows in this nonmetropolitan area
Software Developers and Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary lead published employment inside Eastern Washington nonmetropolitan area's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Software Developers 710 jobs · $154,710
- 2. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 280 jobs · $143,680
- 3. Financial Managers 270 jobs · $143,390
- 4. Computer and Information Systems Managers 240 jobs · $162,690
- 5. Education Administrators, Postsecondary 220 jobs · $140,740
- 6. Pharmacists 160 jobs · $154,850
- 7. Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary 160 jobs · $143,890
- 8. Nurse Practitioners 160 jobs · $134,310
- 9. Sales Managers 150 jobs · $157,330
- 10. Marketing Managers 150 jobs · $151,450
- 11. Physicians, All Other 140 jobs · $301,330
- 12. Industrial Production Managers 140 jobs · $164,870
- 13. Business Teachers, Postsecondary 120 jobs · $137,440
- 14. Architectural and Engineering Managers 110 jobs · $160,210
- 15. Physician Assistants 110 jobs · $149,260
- 16. Chief Executives 100 jobs · $184,930
- 17. Construction Managers 90 jobs · $136,980
- 18. Human Resources Managers 80 jobs · $150,420
Occupations Tracked
358
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$66,331
employment-weighted, 355 complete rows
Top Salary
$301,740
Family Medicine Physicians
Top-pay occupations in Eastern Washington 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 Eastern Washington nonmetropolitan area
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Cooks, Short Order | $34,650 |
| Graders and Sorters, Agricultural Products | $34,680 |
| Mail Clerks and Mail Machine Operators, Except Postal Service | $35,460 |
| Food Servers, Nonrestaurant | $35,730 |
| Packers and Packagers, Hand | $35,790 |
| Automotive and Watercraft Service Attendants | $35,970 |
| Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service Workers | $36,310 |
| Gambling Dealers | $36,520 |
| Cashiers | $36,660 |
| Animal Caretakers | $36,670 |
Other BLS Wage Areas in WA
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 WA. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($66,331 here) and summed published employment.
Similar mean wage
Nearest other metros by employment-weighted published-row annual mean wage.
Similar employment scale
Nearest headcount peers (floor 100,000 summed published jobs), distinct from the mean-wage column.
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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