Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN Salaries
Highest published occupation medians in Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN moved from $47,070 in May 2024 to $48,780 in May 2025 (+3.6%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN sits +0.5 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.
Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN
Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators publishes $63,140 here versus $44,650 nationally (+41.4%; 6,280metro-area jobs). Next is Registered Nurses at $80,790 locally versus $97,550 nationally (-17.2%).
- Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators$63,140 in Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN sits 41.4% above the national Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators median of $44,650 (6,280 published local jobs).
- Registered Nurses$80,790 in Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN sits 17.2% below the national Registered Nurses median of $97,550 (2,080 published local jobs).
- Retail Salespersons$30,670 in Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN sits 13.4% below the national Retail Salespersons median of $35,410 (2,650 published local jobs).
- Fast Food and Counter Workers$28,230 in Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN sits 9.5% below the national Fast Food and Counter Workers median of $31,200 (4,260 published local jobs).
Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 29200 · Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN $59K mean
MEAN-MID · RPP-LOW · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-FULL
- MEAN-MID #239/528
- RPP-LOW 93.4
- OCC-MID 308 occs
- TOP-LEAD General Intern… · $417K
- EMP-MIX Health Speci…
- TREND-INLINE +0.5 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Greensboro-High…
- BOOK-FULL 306 rows · May 2025
Read with Greensboro-High Point, NC (+$11 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 Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN
Employment scale inside Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN's top-pay list
Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary and Medical and Health Services Managers lead published employment inside Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN's top-pay sample, order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary 440 jobs · $109,110
- 2. Medical and Health Services Managers 320 jobs · $106,710
- 3. Financial Managers 310 jobs · $121,020
- 4. Pharmacists 290 jobs · $122,990
- 5. Industrial Production Managers 270 jobs · $124,050
- 6. Administrative Services Managers 260 jobs · $103,340
- 7. Education Administrators, Postsecondary 240 jobs · $141,700
- 8. Nurse Practitioners 240 jobs · $126,820
- 9. Sales Managers 200 jobs · $120,980
- 10. Architectural and Engineering Managers 170 jobs · $177,640
- 11. Computer and Information Systems Managers 170 jobs · $133,270
- 12. Human Resources Managers 140 jobs · $119,620
- 13. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 140 jobs · $111,470
- 14. General Internal Medicine Physicians 120 jobs · $416,860
- 15. Physicians, All Other 120 jobs · $368,750
- 16. Marketing Managers 80 jobs · $117,150
- 17. Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers 80 jobs · $112,900
- 18. Natural Sciences Managers 70 jobs · $142,640
Occupations Tracked
308
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$58,585
employment-weighted, 306 complete rows
Top Salary
$416,860
General Internal Medicine Physicians
Cost of Living
93.4
7% below US avg
Highest Paying Jobs in Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN
Lowest Paying Jobs in Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Bartenders | $22,680 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $26,170 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $26,620 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $28,230 |
| Waiters and Waitresses | $28,420 |
| Driver/Sales Workers | $28,600 |
| Dishwashers | $28,690 |
| Self-Enrichment Teachers | $28,700 |
| Laundry and Dry-Cleaning Workers | $29,320 |
| Hotel, Motel, and Resort Desk Clerks | $29,380 |
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 ($58,585 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 Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN wage figures in a real decision
- General Internal Medicine Physicians leads published medians in Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN at $416,860/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. General Internal Medicine Physicians
- The employment-weighted published-row mean of $58,585 adjusts to about $62,705 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 93.4. 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.