Green Bay, WI Salaries
Highest published occupation medians in Green Bay, WI - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Green Bay, WI moved from $48,580 in May 2024 to $49,940 in May 2025 (+2.8%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Green Bay, WI sits -0.3 pp near 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.
Waiters and Waitresses shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Green Bay, WI
Waiters and Waitresses publishes $29,610 here versus $35,230 nationally (-16.0%; 2,170metro-area jobs). Next is Registered Nurses at $84,700 locally versus $97,550 nationally (-13.2%).
- Waiters and Waitresses$29,610 in Green Bay, WI sits 16.0% below the national Waiters and Waitresses median of $35,230 (2,170 published local jobs).
- Registered Nurses$84,700 in Green Bay, WI sits 13.2% below the national Registered Nurses median of $97,550 (4,680 published local jobs).
- Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scientific Products$62,910 in Green Bay, WI sits 12.7% below the national Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scientific Products median of $72,080 (2,190 published local jobs).
- Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand$44,010 in Green Bay, WI sits 9.4% above the national Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand median of $40,240 (3,650 published local jobs).
Waiters and Waitresses and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Green Bay, WI; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 24580 · Green Bay, WI $62K mean
MEAN-MID · RPP-LOW · OCC-MOST · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-FULL
- MEAN-MID #153/528
- RPP-LOW 93.1
- OCC-MOST 417 occs
- TOP-LEAD Physicians, Al… · $435K
- EMP-MIX Financial Ma…
- TREND-INLINE -0.3 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Lincoln, NE
- BOOK-FULL 410 rows · May 2025
Read with Lincoln, NE (+$19 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 Green Bay, WI
Employment scale inside Green Bay, WI's top-pay list
Financial Managers and Industrial Production Managers lead published employment inside Green Bay, WI's top-pay sample, order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Financial Managers 960 jobs · $141,000
- 2. Industrial Production Managers 700 jobs · $123,240
- 3. Sales Managers 600 jobs · $129,930
- 4. Computer and Information Systems Managers 490 jobs · $148,760
- 5. Physicians, All Other 430 jobs · $435,420
- 6. Nurse Practitioners 430 jobs · $127,540
- 7. Medical and Health Services Managers 400 jobs · $133,060
- 8. Chief Executives 390 jobs · $222,320
- 9. Personal Financial Advisors 320 jobs · $120,200
- 10. Lawyers 310 jobs · $119,370
- 11. Pharmacists 300 jobs · $141,090
- 12. Physician Assistants 240 jobs · $131,720
- 13. Human Resources Managers 220 jobs · $135,400
- 14. Marketing Managers 210 jobs · $133,210
- 15. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 200 jobs · $123,440
- 16. Architectural and Engineering Managers 190 jobs · $133,410
- 17. Dentists, General 130 jobs · $199,520
- 18. Computer Network Architects 120 jobs · $128,770
Occupations Tracked
417
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$62,161
employment-weighted, 410 complete rows
Top Salary
$435,420
Physicians, All Other
Cost of Living
93.1
7% below US avg
Highest Paying Jobs in Green Bay, WI
| # | Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Physicians, All Other | $435,420 |
| 2 | Psychiatrists | $339,680 |
| 3 | Family Medicine Physicians | $262,190 |
| 4 | Chief Executives | $222,320 |
| 5 | Dentists, General | $199,520 |
| 6 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $148,760 |
| 7 | Optometrists | $144,840 |
| 8 | Pharmacists | $141,090 |
| 9 | Financial Managers | $141,000 |
| 10 | Human Resources Managers | $135,400 |
| 11 | Architectural and Engineering Managers | $133,410 |
| 12 | Marketing Managers | $133,210 |
| 13 | Medical and Health Services Managers | $133,060 |
| 14 | Physician Assistants | $131,720 |
| 15 | Clinical and Counseling Psychologists | $130,360 |
| 16 | Sales Managers | $129,930 |
| 17 | Computer Network Architects | $128,770 |
| 18 | Nurse Practitioners | $127,540 |
| 19 | Purchasing Managers | $124,990 |
| 20 | Education Administrators, Postsecondary | $124,960 |
| 21 | Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary | $123,440 |
| 22 | Industrial Production Managers | $123,240 |
| 23 | Personal Financial Advisors | $120,200 |
| 24 | Lawyers | $119,370 |
| 25 | Chiropractors | $115,380 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in Green Bay, WI
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Bartenders | $23,380 |
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $26,480 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $27,620 |
| Cooks, Short Order | $27,730 |
| Driver/Sales Workers | $28,080 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $28,640 |
| Cooks, Fast Food | $28,740 |
| Dishwashers | $28,890 |
| Motor Vehicle Operators, All Other | $29,360 |
| Waiters and Waitresses | $29,610 |
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 ($62,161 here) and summed published employment.
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Nearest other metros by employment-weighted published-row annual mean wage.
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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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How to use Green Bay, WI wage figures in a real decision
- Physicians, All Other leads published medians in Green Bay, WI at $435,420/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Physicians, All Other
- The employment-weighted published-row mean of $62,161 adjusts to about $66,778 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 93.1. Salary vs cost of living
- Compare this metropolitan statistical area against the statewide occupation table for WI 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.