Fond du Lac, WI Salaries
Local wages where BEA prices sit below the US average (RPP 91.6) - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Fond du Lac, WI moved from $49,590 in May 2024 to $50,340 in May 2025 (+1.5%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Fond du Lac, WI sits -1.6 pp behind that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 22540 · Fond du Lac, WI $60K mean
MEAN-MID · RPP-LOW · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST
- MEAN-MID #204/528
- RPP-LOW 91.6
- OCC-MID 200 occs
- TOP-LEAD Chief Executives · $202K
- EMP-MIX General and…
- TREND-INLINE -1.6 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Reading, PA
- BOOK-MOST 198 rows · May 2025
Read with Reading, PA (+$35 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 Fond du Lac, WI
Where Fond du Lac, WI already employs the upper wage tier
General and Operations Managers and Industrial Engineers lead published employment inside Fond du Lac, WI's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. General and Operations Managers 580 jobs · $114,410
- 2. Industrial Engineers 320 jobs · $98,410
- 3. Financial Managers 180 jobs · $158,620
- 4. Construction Managers 170 jobs · $124,100
- 5. Sales Managers 150 jobs · $125,650
- 6. Managers, All Other 150 jobs · $104,010
- 7. Nurse Practitioners 120 jobs · $131,980
- 8. Medical and Health Services Managers 110 jobs · $120,300
- 9. Computer and Information Systems Managers 100 jobs · $142,940
- 10. Software Developers 100 jobs · $104,140
- 11. Physician Assistants 90 jobs · $136,700
- 12. Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers 80 jobs · $112,910
- 13. Management Analysts 80 jobs · $100,740
- 14. Chief Executives 70 jobs · $201,720
- 15. Architectural and Engineering Managers 70 jobs · $162,180
- 16. Pharmacists 70 jobs · $142,450
- 17. Lawyers 60 jobs · $121,720
- 18. Computer Systems Analysts 60 jobs · $107,300
Occupations Tracked
200
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$59,737
employment-weighted, 198 complete rows
Top Salary
$201,720
Chief Executives
Cost of Living
91.6
8% below US avg
Top-pay occupations in Fond du Lac, WI, 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 | General and Operations Managers | $114,410 |
| 2 | Industrial Engineers | $98,410 |
| 3 | Financial Managers | $158,620 |
| 4 | Construction Managers | $124,100 |
| 5 | Sales Managers | $125,650 |
| 6 | Managers, All Other | $104,010 |
| 7 | Nurse Practitioners | $131,980 |
| 8 | Medical and Health Services Managers | $120,300 |
| 9 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $142,940 |
| 10 | Software Developers | $104,140 |
| 11 | Physician Assistants | $136,700 |
| 12 | Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers | $112,910 |
| 13 | Management Analysts | $100,740 |
| 14 | Chief Executives | $201,720 |
| 15 | Architectural and Engineering Managers | $162,180 |
| 16 | Pharmacists | $142,450 |
| 17 | Lawyers | $121,720 |
| 18 | Computer Systems Analysts | $107,300 |
| 19 | Physical Therapists | $100,130 |
| 20 | Human Resources Managers | $139,060 |
| 21 | Personal Financial Advisors | $127,360 |
| 22 | Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary | $109,880 |
| 23 | Marketing Managers | $113,350 |
| 24 | Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers | $104,220 |
| 25 | Instructional Coordinators | $97,930 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in Fond du Lac, WI
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Dishwashers | $22,080 |
| Recreation Workers | $22,980 |
| Bartenders | $23,330 |
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $26,250 |
| Driver/Sales Workers | $26,430 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $27,350 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $28,180 |
| Cooks, Fast Food | $28,750 |
| Animal Caretakers | $28,810 |
| Waiters and Waitresses | $28,980 |
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 ($59,737 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 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.