Kansas City, MO-KS Salaries
Highest published occupation medians in Kansas City, MO-KS - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Kansas City, MO-KS moved from $49,480 in May 2024 to $50,820 in May 2025 (+2.7%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Kansas City, MO-KS sits -0.4 pp near that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
Physicians, All Other shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Kansas City, MO-KS
Physicians, All Other publishes $126,260 here versus $265,930 nationally (-52.5%; 3,310metro-area jobs). Next is Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers at $63,000 locally versus $48,570 nationally (+29.7%).
- Physicians, All Other$126,260 in Kansas City, MO-KS sits 52.5% below the national Physicians, All Other median of $265,930 (3,310 published local jobs).
- Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers$63,000 in Kansas City, MO-KS sits 29.7% above the national Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers median of $48,570 (5,210 published local jobs).
- Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators$54,990 in Kansas City, MO-KS sits 23.2% above the national Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators median of $44,650 (13,770 published local jobs).
- Packers and Packagers, Hand$44,460 in Kansas City, MO-KS sits 22.5% above the national Packers and Packagers, Hand median of $36,280 (8,890 published local jobs).
Physicians, All Other and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Kansas City, MO-KS; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 28140 · Kansas City, MO-KS $66K mean
MEAN-HIGH · RPP-LOW · OCC-MOST · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-FULL
- MEAN-HIGH #90/528
- RPP-LOW 92.5
- OCC-MOST 611 occs
- TOP-LEAD Anesthesiologi… · $478K
- EMP-MIX Lawyers
- TREND-INLINE -0.4 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH St. Louis, MO-IL
- BOOK-FULL 598 rows · May 2025
Read with St. Louis, MO-IL (+$29 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 Kansas City, MO-KS
Employment scale inside Kansas City, MO-KS's top-pay list
Lawyers and Financial Managers lead published employment inside Kansas City, MO-KS's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Lawyers 5,310 jobs · $134,640
- 2. Financial Managers 4,970 jobs · $162,490
- 3. Computer and Information Systems Managers 4,710 jobs · $168,050
- 4. Managers, All Other 3,780 jobs · $136,530
- 5. Pharmacists 2,640 jobs · $139,460
- 6. Marketing Managers 2,260 jobs · $139,240
- 7. Architectural and Engineering Managers 1,820 jobs · $162,680
- 8. Human Resources Managers 1,380 jobs · $140,890
- 9. Dentists, General 1,070 jobs · $171,690
- 10. Chief Executives 990 jobs · $221,640
- 11. Nurse Anesthetists 980 jobs · $218,080
- 12. Purchasing Managers 690 jobs · $161,910
- 13. Family Medicine Physicians 590 jobs · $213,950
- 14. Physician Assistants 540 jobs · $133,350
- 15. Optometrists 450 jobs · $138,580
- 16. Air Traffic Controllers 430 jobs · $161,700
- 17. Anesthesiologists 290 jobs · $477,890
- 18. Psychologists, All Other 110 jobs · $133,950
Occupations Tracked
611
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$65,932
employment-weighted, 598 complete rows
Top Salary
$477,890
Anesthesiologists
Cost of Living
92.5
7% below US avg
Highest Paying Jobs in Kansas City, MO-KS
| # | Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anesthesiologists | $477,890 |
| 2 | Pediatricians, General | $271,410 |
| 3 | Physicians, Pathologists | $224,280 |
| 4 | Chief Executives | $221,640 |
| 5 | Nurse Anesthetists | $218,080 |
| 6 | Family Medicine Physicians | $213,950 |
| 7 | Dentists, General | $171,690 |
| 8 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $168,050 |
| 9 | Administrative Law Judges, Adjudicators, and Hearing Officers | $164,530 |
| 10 | Architectural and Engineering Managers | $162,680 |
| 11 | Financial Managers | $162,490 |
| 12 | Purchasing Managers | $161,910 |
| 13 | Air Traffic Controllers | $161,700 |
| 14 | Sales Managers | $159,990 |
| 15 | Podiatrists | $153,510 |
| 16 | Medical Dosimetrists | $151,240 |
| 17 | Physicists | $141,200 |
| 18 | Human Resources Managers | $140,890 |
| 19 | Pharmacists | $139,460 |
| 20 | Marketing Managers | $139,240 |
| 21 | Optometrists | $138,580 |
| 22 | Managers, All Other | $136,530 |
| 23 | Lawyers | $134,640 |
| 24 | Psychologists, All Other | $133,950 |
| 25 | Physician Assistants | $133,350 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in Kansas City, MO-KS
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Religious Workers, All Other | $23,100 |
| Physical Therapist Aides | $25,280 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $28,680 |
| Parking Attendants | $29,190 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $29,280 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $29,560 |
| Personal Care and Service Workers, All Other | $29,700 |
| Cooks, Short Order | $29,810 |
| Textile Cutting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders | $30,000 |
| Baggage Porters and Bellhops | $30,010 |
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 ($65,932 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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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.