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

May 2024 → May 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.

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

Guayama, PR · lowest mean: $32KGuayama, PR · lowest mean$32KLewiston, ID-WA · this MSA: $56KLewiston, ID-WA · this MSA$56KWaco, TX · near: $56KWaco, TX · near$56KLogan, UT-ID · near: $56KLogan, UT-ID · near$56KCanton-Massillon, OH · near: $56KCanton-Massillon, OH · near$56KLynchburg, VA · near: $56KLynchburg, VA · near$56KSan Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · highest mean: $119KSan Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · high…$119K
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Label Value
Guayama, PR · lowest mean $32K
Lewiston, ID-WA · this MSA $56K
Waco, TX · near $56K
Logan, UT-ID · near $56K
Canton-Massillon, OH · near $56K
Lynchburg, VA · near $56K
San Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · highest mean $119K

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. 1. Registered Nurses 730 jobs · $87,650
  2. 2. Project Management Specialists 130 jobs · $83,260
  3. 3. Middle School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education 120 jobs · $79,430
  4. 4. Medical and Health Services Managers 110 jobs · $122,780
  5. 5. Financial Managers 80 jobs · $123,400
  6. 6. Computer Systems Analysts 80 jobs · $84,660
  7. 7. Chief Executives 70 jobs · $176,030
  8. 8. Industrial Production Managers 70 jobs · $157,500
  9. 9. Software Developers 70 jobs · $101,310
  10. 10. Industrial Engineers 70 jobs · $94,970
  11. 11. Pharmacists 60 jobs · $148,110
  12. 12. Sales Managers 60 jobs · $131,630
  13. 13. Nurse Practitioners 60 jobs · $125,030
  14. 14. Dental Hygienists 60 jobs · $98,450
  15. 15. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 50 jobs · $117,340
  16. 16. Lawyers 50 jobs · $97,020
  17. 17. Computer and Information Systems Managers 40 jobs · $139,990
  18. 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

Price-level adjustment: Dividing the derived published-row mean of $56,383 by the metro RPP gives $61,851 on a national-price basis. This is not an after-tax income or a personal cost-of-living result.

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.

# Occupation Median Salary
1 Registered Nurses $87,650
2 Project Management Specialists $83,260
3 Middle School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education $79,430
4 Medical and Health Services Managers $122,780
5 Financial Managers $123,400
6 Computer Systems Analysts $84,660
7 Chief Executives $176,030
8 Industrial Production Managers $157,500
9 Software Developers $101,310
10 Industrial Engineers $94,970
11 Pharmacists $148,110
12 Sales Managers $131,630
13 Nurse Practitioners $125,030
14 Dental Hygienists $98,450
15 Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary $117,340
16 Lawyers $97,020
17 Computer and Information Systems Managers $139,990
18 Construction Managers $109,210
19 Mechanical Engineers $95,580
20 Production Workers, All Other $93,420
21 Network and Computer Systems Administrators $83,940
22 Data Scientists $81,250
23 Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers $80,130
24 Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers $126,860
25 Occupational Health and Safety Specialists $84,990

Lowest Paying Jobs in Lewiston, ID-WA

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does the lower price level do to Lewiston, ID-WA wage reading?
The employment-weighted published-row mean across 166 occupation rows is $56,383/year (BLS OEWS May 2025). BEA RPP 91.2 puts local prices 9% below the US average, so the same mean reads as $61,851 in national-price terms. Page lists 167 occupations with a published median — a different denominator. The top-tier median average of the 25 highest-paying rows is $108,958.
What is the highest paying job in Lewiston, ID-WA?
The highest paying occupation in Lewiston, ID-WA is Chief Executives with a median salary of $176,030/year. The second highest is Industrial Production Managers at $157,500/year.
What jobs pay the least in Lewiston, ID-WA?
The lowest paying occupation in Lewiston, ID-WA is Bartenders with a median salary of $29,290/year according to BLS data.
Which federal tables feed Lewiston, ID-WA's wage and price figures?
Occupation wages are BLS OEWS May 2025 estimates for this metropolitan statistical area. The price-level figure is BEA Regional Price Parities for the matching metro area (latest published year on the page). WageDex divides the employment-weighted published-row mean by RPP only when both inputs exist; it does not substitute a national RPP.

Last updated: May 2025 (BLS OEWS annual release). Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS May 2025. Cost-of-living index: BEA Regional Price Parities, 2024.

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.

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