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.
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.
Similar mean wage
Nearest other metros by employment-weighted published-row annual mean wage.
Similar employment scale
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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