Lewiston, ID-WA Salaries
Local wages where BEA prices sit below the US average (RPP 91.2) - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Lewiston, ID-WA moved from $47,340 in May 2024 to $48,300 in May 2025 (+2.0%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Lewiston, ID-WA sits -1.1 pp behind 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 30300 · Lewiston, ID-WA $56K mean
MEAN-LOW · RPP-LOW · OCC-THIN · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST
- MEAN-LOW #315/528
- RPP-LOW 91.2
- OCC-THIN 167 occs
- TOP-LEAD Chief Executives · $176K
- EMP-MIX Registered N…
- TREND-INLINE -1.1 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Waco, TX
- BOOK-MOST 166 rows · May 2025
Read with Waco, TX ($18 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 Lewiston, ID-WA
Where Lewiston, ID-WA already employs the upper wage tier
Registered Nurses and Project Management Specialists lead published employment inside Lewiston, ID-WA's top-pay sample, order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Registered Nurses 730 jobs · $87,650
- 2. Project Management Specialists 130 jobs · $83,260
- 3. Middle School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education 120 jobs · $79,430
- 4. Medical and Health Services Managers 110 jobs · $122,780
- 5. Financial Managers 80 jobs · $123,400
- 6. Computer Systems Analysts 80 jobs · $84,660
- 7. Chief Executives 70 jobs · $176,030
- 8. Industrial Production Managers 70 jobs · $157,500
- 9. Software Developers 70 jobs · $101,310
- 10. Industrial Engineers 70 jobs · $94,970
- 11. Pharmacists 60 jobs · $148,110
- 12. Sales Managers 60 jobs · $131,630
- 13. Nurse Practitioners 60 jobs · $125,030
- 14. Dental Hygienists 60 jobs · $98,450
- 15. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 50 jobs · $117,340
- 16. Lawyers 50 jobs · $97,020
- 17. Computer and Information Systems Managers 40 jobs · $139,990
- 18. Construction Managers 40 jobs · $109,210
Occupations Tracked
167
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$56,383
employment-weighted, 166 complete rows
Top Salary
$176,030
Chief Executives
Cost of Living
91.2
9% below US avg
Top-pay occupations in Lewiston, ID-WA, 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 Lewiston, ID-WA
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Bartenders | $29,290 |
| Recreation Workers | $29,740 |
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $30,510 |
| Childcare Workers | $31,080 |
| Dishwashers | $34,020 |
| Cooks, Fast Food | $34,270 |
| Animal Caretakers | $34,330 |
| Bakers | $34,650 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $34,650 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $34,650 |
Other BLS Wage Areas in ID
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 ID. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($56,383 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 Lewiston, ID-WA wage figures in a real decision
- Chief Executives leads published medians in Lewiston, ID-WA at $176,030/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Chief Executives
- The employment-weighted published-row mean of $56,383 adjusts to about $61,851 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 91.2. Salary vs cost of living
- Compare this metropolitan statistical area against the statewide occupation table for ID 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.