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.
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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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.