Kokomo, IN Salaries
Local wages where BEA prices sit below the US average (RPP 89.6) - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Kokomo, IN moved from $47,310 in May 2024 to $48,980 in May 2025 (+3.5%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Kokomo, IN sits +0.4 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.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 29020 · Kokomo, IN $55K mean
MEAN-LOW · RPP-LOW · OCC-THIN · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST
- MEAN-LOW #354/528
- RPP-LOW 89.6
- OCC-THIN 157 occs
- TOP-LEAD Dentists, Gene… · $174K
- EMP-MIX General and…
- TREND-INLINE +0.4 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Houma-Bayou Cane…
- BOOK-MOST 157 rows · May 2025
Read with Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux, LA ($11 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 Kokomo, IN
Where Kokomo, IN already employs the upper wage tier
General and Operations Managers and Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters lead published employment inside Kokomo, IN's top-pay sample, order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. General and Operations Managers 450 jobs · $97,930
- 2. Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters 400 jobs · $91,470
- 3. Mechanical Engineers 300 jobs · $105,410
- 4. First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers 230 jobs · $97,500
- 5. Electrical Engineers 210 jobs · $106,550
- 6. First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers 150 jobs · $95,680
- 7. Industrial Production Managers 110 jobs · $121,790
- 8. Medical and Health Services Managers 110 jobs · $96,710
- 9. Financial Managers 100 jobs · $115,140
- 10. Industrial Engineers 100 jobs · $106,570
- 11. Personal Financial Advisors 80 jobs · $97,430
- 12. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 80 jobs · $96,730
- 13. Dental Hygienists 80 jobs · $94,230
- 14. Sales Managers 70 jobs · $119,110
- 15. Project Management Specialists 70 jobs · $110,920
- 16. Pharmacists 60 jobs · $151,730
- 17. Software Developers 60 jobs · $132,390
- 18. Lawyers 60 jobs · $104,320
Occupations Tracked
157
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$55,051
employment-weighted, 157 complete rows
Top Salary
$174,240
Dentists, General
Cost of Living
89.6
10% below US avg
Top-pay occupations in Kokomo, IN, by employment
Same top-pay sample as the salary ranking, sorted by published local jobs so the title sequence follows the OEWS mix.
Lowest Paying Jobs in Kokomo, IN
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Bartenders | $23,060 |
| School Bus Monitors | $24,150 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $27,150 |
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $28,190 |
| Recreation Workers | $28,320 |
| Waiters and Waitresses | $28,420 |
| Cooks, Short Order | $28,670 |
| Animal Caretakers | $28,750 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $29,130 |
| Dishwashers | $29,430 |
Other BLS Wage Areas in IN
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 IN. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($55,051 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 Kokomo, IN wage figures in a real decision
- Dentists, General leads published medians in Kokomo, IN at $174,240/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Dentists, General
- The employment-weighted published-row mean of $55,051 adjusts to about $61,408 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 89.6. Salary vs cost of living
- Compare this metropolitan statistical area against the statewide occupation table for IN 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.