Elizabethtown, KY Salaries
Local wages where BEA prices sit below the US average (RPP 90.6) - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Elizabethtown, KY moved from $44,810 in May 2024 to $46,810 in May 2025 (+4.5%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Elizabethtown, KY sits +1.4 pp ahead of 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.
Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Elizabethtown, KY
Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators publishes $50,510 here versus $44,650 nationally (+13.1%; 2,140metro-area jobs).
- Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators$50,510 in Elizabethtown, KY sits 13.1% above the national Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators median of $44,650 (2,140 published local jobs).
Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Elizabethtown, KY; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 21060 · Elizabethtown, KY $55K mean
MEAN-LOW · RPP-LOW · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST
- MEAN-LOW #338/528
- RPP-LOW 90.6
- OCC-MID 212 occs
- TOP-LEAD Physicians, Al… · $302K
- EMP-MIX Computer Occ…
- TREND-INLINE +1.4 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Grand Island, NE
- BOOK-MOST 212 rows · May 2025
Read with Grand Island, NE ($20 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 Elizabethtown, KY
Where Elizabethtown, KY already employs the upper wage tier
Computer Occupations, All Other and Mechanical Engineers lead published employment inside Elizabethtown, KY's top-pay sample, order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Computer Occupations, All Other 450 jobs · $106,330
- 2. Mechanical Engineers 450 jobs · $102,590
- 3. Management Analysts 220 jobs · $100,420
- 4. Industrial Production Managers 200 jobs · $102,240
- 5. Industrial Engineers 190 jobs · $97,550
- 6. Software Developers 180 jobs · $95,980
- 7. Medical and Health Services Managers 170 jobs · $106,330
- 8. Financial Managers 160 jobs · $125,340
- 9. Computer and Information Systems Managers 130 jobs · $125,260
- 10. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 130 jobs · $101,150
- 11. Sales Managers 120 jobs · $121,830
- 12. Lawyers 120 jobs · $97,770
- 13. Pharmacists 100 jobs · $132,620
- 14. Nurse Practitioners 90 jobs · $115,540
- 15. Managers, All Other 80 jobs · $133,470
- 16. Human Resources Managers 80 jobs · $105,000
- 17. Physical Therapists 80 jobs · $104,280
- 18. Physicians, All Other 60 jobs · $301,500
Occupations Tracked
212
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$55,410
employment-weighted, 212 complete rows
Top Salary
$301,500
Physicians, All Other
Cost of Living
90.6
9% below US avg
Top-pay occupations in Elizabethtown, KY, by employment
Same top-pay sample as the salary ranking, sorted by published local jobs so the title sequence follows the OEWS mix.
| # | Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Computer Occupations, All Other | $106,330 |
| 2 | Mechanical Engineers | $102,590 |
| 3 | Management Analysts | $100,420 |
| 4 | Industrial Production Managers | $102,240 |
| 5 | Industrial Engineers | $97,550 |
| 6 | Software Developers | $95,980 |
| 7 | Medical and Health Services Managers | $106,330 |
| 8 | Financial Managers | $125,340 |
| 9 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $125,260 |
| 10 | Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary | $101,150 |
| 11 | Sales Managers | $121,830 |
| 12 | Lawyers | $97,770 |
| 13 | Pharmacists | $132,620 |
| 14 | Nurse Practitioners | $115,540 |
| 15 | Managers, All Other | $133,470 |
| 16 | Human Resources Managers | $105,000 |
| 17 | Physical Therapists | $104,280 |
| 18 | Physicians, All Other | $301,500 |
| 19 | Marketing Managers | $133,220 |
| 20 | Administrative Services Managers | $110,900 |
| 21 | Chief Executives | $158,670 |
| 22 | Architectural and Engineering Managers | $138,110 |
| 23 | Social Workers, All Other | $100,420 |
| 24 | Facilities Managers | $107,740 |
| 25 | Electrical Engineers | $97,970 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in Elizabethtown, KY
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Food Preparation Workers | $23,600 |
| Cooks, Fast Food | $23,870 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $25,370 |
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $25,720 |
| Sewing Machine Operators | $26,260 |
| Bartenders | $26,620 |
| Self-Enrichment Teachers | $26,830 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $27,260 |
| Laundry and Dry-Cleaning Workers | $27,610 |
| Dishwashers | $27,870 |
Other BLS Wage Areas in KY
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 KY. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($55,410 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 Elizabethtown, KY wage figures in a real decision
- Physicians, All Other leads published medians in Elizabethtown, KY at $301,500/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Physicians, All Other
- The employment-weighted published-row mean of $55,410 adjusts to about $61,178 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 90.6. Salary vs cost of living
- Compare this metropolitan statistical area against the statewide occupation table for KY 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.