Eau Claire, WI Salaries
Highest published occupation medians in Eau Claire, WI - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Eau Claire, WI moved from $47,370 in May 2024 to $48,100 in May 2025 (+1.5%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Eau Claire, WI sits -1.6 pp behind that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Eau Claire, WI
Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand publishes $45,320 here versus $40,240 nationally (+12.6%; 2,160metro-area jobs). Next is Fast Food and Counter Workers at $28,070 locally versus $31,200 nationally (-10.0%).
- Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand$45,320 in Eau Claire, WI sits 12.6% above the national Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand median of $40,240 (2,160 published local jobs).
- Fast Food and Counter Workers$28,070 in Eau Claire, WI sits 10.0% below the national Fast Food and Counter Workers median of $31,200 (2,370 published local jobs).
- Cashiers$31,440 in Eau Claire, WI sits 4.4% below the national Cashiers median of $32,880 (2,190 published local jobs).
- Registered Nurses$93,410 in Eau Claire, WI sits 4.2% below the national Registered Nurses median of $97,550 (2,420 published local jobs).
Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Eau Claire, WI; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 20740 · Eau Claire, WI $59K mean
MEAN-MID · RPP-LOW · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-FULL
- MEAN-MID #225/528
- RPP-LOW 92.8
- OCC-MID 305 occs
- TOP-LEAD Physicians, Al… · $419K
- EMP-MIX General and…
- TREND-INLINE -1.6 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Augusta-Richmond…
- BOOK-FULL 305 rows · May 2025
Read with Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC (+$4 on published-row mean) · Highest-paying careers
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 Eau Claire, WI
Employment scale inside Eau Claire, WI's top-pay list
General and Operations Managers and Software Developers lead published employment inside Eau Claire, WI's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. General and Operations Managers 970 jobs · $103,330
- 2. Software Developers 440 jobs · $104,490
- 3. Financial Managers 430 jobs · $143,970
- 4. Nurse Practitioners 280 jobs · $132,530
- 5. Medical and Health Services Managers 250 jobs · $130,670
- 6. Sales Managers 230 jobs · $127,570
- 7. Industrial Production Managers 230 jobs · $104,340
- 8. Physicians, All Other 200 jobs · $418,650
- 9. Pharmacists 180 jobs · $149,720
- 10. Computer and Information Systems Managers 170 jobs · $155,460
- 11. Physician Assistants 170 jobs · $130,090
- 12. Lawyers 170 jobs · $116,320
- 13. Personal Financial Advisors 140 jobs · $113,930
- 14. Chief Executives 120 jobs · $204,710
- 15. Architectural and Engineering Managers 100 jobs · $137,780
- 16. Marketing Managers 90 jobs · $127,330
- 17. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 90 jobs · $120,570
- 18. Dentists, General 80 jobs · $209,750
Occupations Tracked
305
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$59,025
employment-weighted, 305 complete rows
Top Salary
$418,650
Physicians, All Other
Cost of Living
92.8
7% below US avg
Highest Paying Jobs in Eau Claire, WI
| # | Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Physicians, All Other | $418,650 |
| 2 | Family Medicine Physicians | $327,730 |
| 3 | Dentists, General | $209,750 |
| 4 | Chief Executives | $204,710 |
| 5 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $155,460 |
| 6 | Pharmacists | $149,720 |
| 7 | Financial Managers | $143,970 |
| 8 | Architectural and Engineering Managers | $137,780 |
| 9 | Nurse Practitioners | $132,530 |
| 10 | Medical and Health Services Managers | $130,670 |
| 11 | Physician Assistants | $130,090 |
| 12 | Sales Managers | $127,570 |
| 13 | Marketing Managers | $127,330 |
| 14 | Human Resources Managers | $127,130 |
| 15 | Computer Network Architects | $127,040 |
| 16 | Education Administrators, Postsecondary | $124,910 |
| 17 | Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary | $120,570 |
| 18 | Lawyers | $116,320 |
| 19 | Commercial Pilots | $114,560 |
| 20 | Personal Financial Advisors | $113,930 |
| 21 | Veterinarians | $110,120 |
| 22 | Software Developers | $104,490 |
| 23 | Industrial Production Managers | $104,340 |
| 24 | General and Operations Managers | $103,330 |
| 25 | Labor Relations Specialists | $103,230 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in Eau Claire, WI
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Bartenders | $22,990 |
| Ushers, Lobby Attendants, and Ticket Takers | $26,090 |
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $26,170 |
| Taxi Drivers | $26,300 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $27,970 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $28,070 |
| Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service Workers | $28,090 |
| Library Technicians | $28,260 |
| Tutors | $28,640 |
| Cooks, Fast Food | $28,700 |
Other BLS Wage Areas in WI
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 WI. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($59,025 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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