Lawrence, KS Salaries
Local wages where BEA prices sit below the US average (RPP 90.2) - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Lawrence, KS moved from $45,240 in May 2024 to $47,390 in May 2025 (+4.8%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Lawrence, KS sits +1.7 pp ahead of that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
Fast Food and Counter Workers shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Lawrence, KS
Fast Food and Counter Workers publishes $28,320 here versus $31,200 nationally (-9.2%; 2,880metro-area jobs).
- Fast Food and Counter Workers$28,320 in Lawrence, KS sits 9.2% below the national Fast Food and Counter Workers median of $31,200 (2,880 published local jobs).
Fast Food and Counter Workers and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Lawrence, KS; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 29940 · Lawrence, KS $58K mean
MEAN-MID · RPP-LOW · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST
- MEAN-MID #252/528
- RPP-LOW 90.2
- OCC-MID 230 occs
- TOP-LEAD Physicians, Al… · $433K
- EMP-MIX Education Ad…
- TREND-INLINE +1.7 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Winston-Salem, NC
- BOOK-MOST 228 rows · May 2025
Read with Winston-Salem, NC ($12 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 Lawrence, KS
Where Lawrence, KS already employs the upper wage tier
Education Administrators, Postsecondary and Sales Managers lead published employment inside Lawrence, KS's top-pay sample, order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Education Administrators, Postsecondary 420 jobs · $140,710
- 2. Sales Managers 180 jobs · $189,740
- 3. Financial Managers 170 jobs · $171,290
- 4. Medical and Health Services Managers 170 jobs · $127,760
- 5. Pharmacists 160 jobs · $133,880
- 6. Business Teachers, Postsecondary 150 jobs · $169,130
- 7. Computer and Information Systems Managers 130 jobs · $135,920
- 8. Communications Teachers, Postsecondary 120 jobs · $109,350
- 9. Construction Managers 110 jobs · $121,660
- 10. Nurse Practitioners 100 jobs · $126,650
- 11. Physicians, All Other 80 jobs · $432,860
- 12. Marketing Managers 80 jobs · $148,550
- 13. Human Resources Managers 70 jobs · $112,130
- 14. Chief Executives 60 jobs · $164,800
- 15. Architectural and Engineering Managers 60 jobs · $156,080
- 16. Industrial Production Managers 60 jobs · $126,170
- 17. First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention Workers 50 jobs · $128,760
- 18. Administrative Services Managers 50 jobs · $111,780
Occupations Tracked
230
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$58,279
employment-weighted, 228 complete rows
Top Salary
$432,860
Physicians, All Other
Cost of Living
90.2
10% below US avg
Top-pay occupations in Lawrence, KS, 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 Lawrence, KS
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary | $22,360 |
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $22,620 |
| Tutors | $23,630 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $26,020 |
| Food Servers, Nonrestaurant | $26,550 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $27,040 |
| Dishwashers | $27,590 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $28,320 |
| Manicurists and Pedicurists | $28,470 |
| Animal Caretakers | $28,660 |
Other BLS Wage Areas in KS
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 KS. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($58,279 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 Lawrence, KS wage figures in a real decision
- Physicians, All Other leads published medians in Lawrence, KS at $432,860/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Physicians, All Other
- The employment-weighted published-row mean of $58,279 adjusts to about $64,580 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 90.2. Salary vs cost of living
- Compare this metropolitan statistical area against the statewide occupation table for KS 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.