Grand Island, NE Salaries
Local wages where BEA prices sit below the US average (RPP 86.7) - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Grand Island, NE moved from $48,660 in May 2024 to $49,410 in May 2025 (+1.5%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Grand Island, NE sits -1.6 pp behind that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 24260 · Grand Island, NE $55K mean
MEAN-LOW · RPP-QUIET · OCC-THIN · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST
- MEAN-LOW #339/528
- RPP-QUIET 86.7
- OCC-THIN 189 occs
- TOP-LEAD Family Medicin… · $178K
- EMP-MIX Financial Ma…
- TREND-INLINE -1.6 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Williamsport, PA
- BOOK-MOST 189 rows · May 2025
Read with Williamsport, PA ($16 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 Grand Island, NE
Where Grand Island, NE already employs the upper wage tier
Financial Managers and Industrial Production Managers lead published employment inside Grand Island, NE's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Financial Managers 150 jobs · $137,100
- 2. Industrial Production Managers 150 jobs · $107,650
- 3. Medical and Health Services Managers 150 jobs · $103,220
- 4. Construction Managers 100 jobs · $98,880
- 5. Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors 90 jobs · $109,480
- 6. Nurse Practitioners 80 jobs · $125,690
- 7. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 80 jobs · $109,460
- 8. Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers 80 jobs · $100,340
- 9. Chief Executives 70 jobs · $173,690
- 10. Pharmacists 70 jobs · $134,520
- 11. Managers, All Other 70 jobs · $107,610
- 12. Sales Managers 60 jobs · $134,750
- 13. Administrative Services Managers 60 jobs · $97,130
- 14. Occupational Therapists 60 jobs · $87,190
- 15. Computer and Information Systems Managers 50 jobs · $123,040
- 16. Lawyers 50 jobs · $103,150
- 17. Facilities Managers 50 jobs · $99,030
- 18. Software Developers 50 jobs · $96,260
Occupations Tracked
189
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$55,390
employment-weighted, 189 complete rows
Top Salary
$177,730
Family Medicine Physicians
Cost of Living
86.7
13% below US avg
Top-pay occupations in Grand Island, NE, 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 Grand Island, NE
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $28,080 |
| Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary | $28,080 |
| Exercise Trainers and Group Fitness Instructors | $28,320 |
| Bartenders | $28,910 |
| Animal Caretakers | $28,990 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $29,150 |
| Self-Enrichment Teachers | $29,400 |
| Dishwashers | $29,690 |
| Waiters and Waitresses | $29,840 |
| Cooks, Fast Food | $29,970 |
Other BLS Wage Areas in NE
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 NE. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($55,390 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.