Jefferson City, MO Salaries
Local wages where BEA prices sit below the US average (RPP 88.0) - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Jefferson City, MO moved from $45,440 in May 2024 to $48,030 in May 2025 (+5.7%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Jefferson City, MO sits +2.6 pp ahead of 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.
General and Operations Managers shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Jefferson City, MO
General and Operations Managers publishes $76,170 here versus $105,770 nationally (-28.0%; 2,280metro-area jobs).
- General and Operations Managers$76,170 in Jefferson City, MO sits 28.0% below the national General and Operations Managers median of $105,770 (2,280 published local jobs).
General and Operations Managers and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Jefferson City, MO; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 27620 · Jefferson City, MO $57K mean
MEAN-LOW · RPP-QUIET · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-AHEAD · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST
- MEAN-LOW #279/528
- RPP-QUIET 88.0
- OCC-MID 299 occs
- TOP-LEAD Psychiatrists · $282K
- EMP-MIX Financial Ma…
- TREND-AHEAD +2.6 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Wilmington, NC
- BOOK-MOST 297 rows · May 2025
Read with Wilmington, NC (+$18 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 Jefferson City, MO
Where Jefferson City, MO already employs the upper wage tier
Financial Managers and First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives lead published employment inside Jefferson City, MO's top-pay sample, order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Financial Managers 320 jobs · $123,340
- 2. First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives 280 jobs · $102,840
- 3. Computer and Information Systems Managers 250 jobs · $127,330
- 4. Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers 200 jobs · $96,720
- 5. Sales Managers 150 jobs · $121,840
- 6. Nurse Practitioners 130 jobs · $128,710
- 7. Chief Executives 120 jobs · $113,090
- 8. Industrial Production Managers 110 jobs · $126,890
- 9. Marketing Managers 110 jobs · $118,540
- 10. Human Resources Managers 110 jobs · $106,850
- 11. Pharmacists 100 jobs · $130,190
- 12. Education Administrators, Postsecondary 100 jobs · $96,830
- 13. Physical Therapists 90 jobs · $98,070
- 14. Clinical and Counseling Psychologists 60 jobs · $116,670
- 15. Construction Managers 60 jobs · $108,260
- 16. Physicians, All Other 50 jobs · $220,460
- 17. Dentists, General 50 jobs · $208,630
- 18. Architectural and Engineering Managers 50 jobs · $160,470
Occupations Tracked
299
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$57,392
employment-weighted, 297 complete rows
Top Salary
$282,050
Psychiatrists
Cost of Living
88.0
12% below US avg
Top-pay occupations in Jefferson City, MO, 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 | Financial Managers | $123,340 |
| 2 | First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives | $102,840 |
| 3 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $127,330 |
| 4 | Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers | $96,720 |
| 5 | Sales Managers | $121,840 |
| 6 | Nurse Practitioners | $128,710 |
| 7 | Chief Executives | $113,090 |
| 8 | Industrial Production Managers | $126,890 |
| 9 | Marketing Managers | $118,540 |
| 10 | Human Resources Managers | $106,850 |
| 11 | Pharmacists | $130,190 |
| 12 | Education Administrators, Postsecondary | $96,830 |
| 13 | Physical Therapists | $98,070 |
| 14 | Clinical and Counseling Psychologists | $116,670 |
| 15 | Construction Managers | $108,260 |
| 16 | Physicians, All Other | $220,460 |
| 17 | Dentists, General | $208,630 |
| 18 | Architectural and Engineering Managers | $160,470 |
| 19 | Veterinarians | $101,230 |
| 20 | Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers | $95,990 |
| 21 | Occupational Therapists | $95,110 |
| 22 | Psychiatrists | $282,050 |
| 23 | Family Medicine Physicians | $224,100 |
| 24 | Physician Assistants | $135,340 |
| 25 | Database Architects | $97,560 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in Jefferson City, MO
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Childcare Workers | $28,600 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $28,600 |
| Cooks, Fast Food | $28,600 |
| Tutors | $28,600 |
| Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and Cosmetologists | $28,630 |
| Bartenders | $28,630 |
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $28,950 |
| Laundry and Dry-Cleaning Workers | $29,160 |
| Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse | $29,160 |
| Food Preparation Workers | $29,200 |
Other BLS Wage Areas in MO
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 MO. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($57,392 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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How to use Jefferson City, MO wage figures in a real decision
- Psychiatrists leads published medians in Jefferson City, MO at $282,050/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Psychiatrists
- The employment-weighted published-row mean of $57,392 adjusts to about $65,237 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 88.0. Salary vs cost of living
- Compare this metropolitan statistical area against the statewide occupation table for MO 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.