Helena, MT Salaries
Highest published occupation medians in Helena, MT - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Helena, MT moved from $49,300 in May 2024 to $55,040 in May 2025 (+11.6%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Helena, MT sits +8.5 pp ahead of that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 25740 · Helena, MT $64K mean
MEAN-HIGH · RPP-MID · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-AHEAD · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST
- MEAN-HIGH #116/528
- RPP-MID 95.7
- OCC-MID 241 occs
- TOP-LEAD Family Medicin… · $375K
- EMP-MIX Lawyers
- TREND-AHEAD +8.5 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Oshkosh-Neenah, WI
- BOOK-MOST 239 rows · May 2025
Read with Oshkosh-Neenah, WI ($46 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 Helena, MT
Employment scale inside Helena, MT's top-pay list
Lawyers and Project Management Specialists lead published employment inside Helena, MT's top-pay sample, order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Lawyers 410 jobs · $108,410
- 2. Project Management Specialists 340 jobs · $102,970
- 3. Managers, All Other 280 jobs · $106,500
- 4. Medical and Health Services Managers 210 jobs · $115,920
- 5. Management Analysts 200 jobs · $103,140
- 6. Financial Managers 150 jobs · $133,360
- 7. Computer and Information Systems Managers 140 jobs · $130,230
- 8. Nurse Practitioners 110 jobs · $136,420
- 9. Administrative Services Managers 110 jobs · $129,670
- 10. Pharmacists 100 jobs · $146,400
- 11. Chief Executives 90 jobs · $173,880
- 12. Architectural and Engineering Managers 90 jobs · $126,900
- 13. Physician Assistants 70 jobs · $134,030
- 14. Human Resources Managers 70 jobs · $111,780
- 15. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 70 jobs · $103,530
- 16. Physicians, All Other 60 jobs · $316,530
- 17. Sales Managers 60 jobs · $142,520
- 18. Financial and Investment Analysts 60 jobs · $103,350
Occupations Tracked
241
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$63,957
employment-weighted, 239 complete rows
Top Salary
$375,340
Family Medicine Physicians
Cost of Living
95.7
4% below US avg
Highest Paying Jobs in Helena, MT
| # | Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Family Medicine Physicians | $375,340 |
| 2 | Physicians, All Other | $316,530 |
| 3 | Chief Executives | $173,880 |
| 4 | Marketing Managers | $154,770 |
| 5 | Pharmacists | $146,400 |
| 6 | Sales Managers | $142,520 |
| 7 | Nurse Practitioners | $136,420 |
| 8 | Physician Assistants | $134,030 |
| 9 | Financial Managers | $133,360 |
| 10 | Industrial Production Managers | $133,010 |
| 11 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $130,230 |
| 12 | Administrative Services Managers | $129,670 |
| 13 | Architectural and Engineering Managers | $126,900 |
| 14 | Natural Sciences Managers | $119,430 |
| 15 | Medical and Health Services Managers | $115,920 |
| 16 | Human Resources Managers | $111,780 |
| 17 | Lawyers | $108,410 |
| 18 | Computer Network Architects | $107,700 |
| 19 | Managers, All Other | $106,500 |
| 20 | Electrical Engineers | $105,050 |
| 21 | Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary | $103,530 |
| 22 | Biological Scientists, All Other | $103,380 |
| 23 | Financial and Investment Analysts | $103,350 |
| 24 | Management Analysts | $103,140 |
| 25 | Project Management Specialists | $102,970 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in Helena, MT
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Gambling and Sports Book Writers and Runners | $22,300 |
| Waiters and Waitresses | $23,020 |
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $23,150 |
| Gambling Service Workers, All Other | $25,510 |
| Bartenders | $26,210 |
| Substitute Teachers, Short-Term | $27,700 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $28,330 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $28,950 |
| Dishwashers | $29,750 |
| Driver/Sales Workers | $30,900 |
Other BLS Wage Areas in MT
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 MT. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($63,957 here) and summed published employment.
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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 Helena, MT wage figures in a real decision
- Family Medicine Physicians leads published medians in Helena, MT at $375,340/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Family Medicine Physicians
- The employment-weighted published-row mean of $63,957 adjusts to about $66,848 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 95.7. Salary vs cost of living
- Compare this metropolitan statistical area against the statewide occupation table for MT 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.