Lincoln, NE Salaries
Local wages where BEA prices sit below the US average (RPP 91.6) - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Lincoln, NE moved from $48,860 in May 2024 to $49,800 in May 2025 (+1.9%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Lincoln, NE sits -1.2 pp behind that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Lincoln, NE
Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers publishes $81,790 here versus $58,640 nationally (+39.5%; 4,530metro-area jobs). Next is Accountants and Auditors at $65,170 locally versus $83,680 nationally (-22.1%).
- Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers$81,790 in Lincoln, NE sits 39.5% above the national Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers median of $58,640 (4,530 published local jobs).
- Accountants and Auditors$65,170 in Lincoln, NE sits 22.1% below the national Accountants and Auditors median of $83,680 (2,130 published local jobs).
- Retail Salespersons$30,990 in Lincoln, NE sits 12.5% below the national Retail Salespersons median of $35,410 (4,080 published local jobs).
- General and Operations Managers$92,780 in Lincoln, NE sits 12.3% below the national General and Operations Managers median of $105,770 (3,680 published local jobs).
Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Lincoln, NE; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 30700 · Lincoln, NE $62K mean
MEAN-MID · RPP-LOW · OCC-MOST · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-FULL
- MEAN-MID #152/528
- RPP-LOW 91.6
- OCC-MOST 443 occs
- TOP-LEAD General Intern… · $370K
- EMP-MIX Computer and…
- TREND-INLINE -1.2 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Northern New Mex…
- BOOK-FULL 438 rows · May 2025
Read with Northern New Mexico nonmetropolitan area (+$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 Lincoln, NE
Where Lincoln, NE already employs the upper wage tier
Computer and Information Systems Managers and Financial Managers lead published employment inside Lincoln, NE's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Computer and Information Systems Managers 1,110 jobs · $130,340
- 2. Financial Managers 1,010 jobs · $131,150
- 3. Sales Managers 560 jobs · $120,430
- 4. Chief Executives 460 jobs · $217,780
- 5. Pharmacists 370 jobs · $149,590
- 6. Architectural and Engineering Managers 370 jobs · $139,670
- 7. Nurse Practitioners 320 jobs · $124,440
- 8. Human Resources Managers 300 jobs · $123,830
- 9. Physician Assistants 290 jobs · $128,050
- 10. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 210 jobs · $128,640
- 11. Family Medicine Physicians 180 jobs · $209,990
- 12. Physicians, All Other 170 jobs · $326,620
- 13. Dentists, General 160 jobs · $204,530
- 14. Natural Sciences Managers 160 jobs · $122,670
- 15. Clinical and Counseling Psychologists 150 jobs · $120,000
- 16. First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives 110 jobs · $117,860
- 17. Computer Science Teachers, Postsecondary 90 jobs · $131,180
- 18. Optometrists 70 jobs · $126,510
Occupations Tracked
443
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$62,180
employment-weighted, 438 complete rows
Top Salary
$369,980
General Internal Medicine Physicians
Cost of Living
91.6
8% below US avg
Top-pay occupations in Lincoln, NE, 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 Lincoln, NE
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Parking Attendants | $28,080 |
| Library Assistants, Clerical | $28,080 |
| Personal Care and Service Workers, All Other | $28,080 |
| Ushers, Lobby Attendants, and Ticket Takers | $28,080 |
| Physical Therapist Aides | $28,080 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $28,150 |
| Funeral Attendants | $28,420 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $28,510 |
| Telemarketers | $29,010 |
| Cooks, Fast Food | $29,430 |
Other BLS Wage Areas in NE
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 NE. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($62,180 here) and summed published employment.
Similar mean wage
Nearest other metros by employment-weighted published-row annual mean wage.
Similar employment scale
Nearest headcount peers (floor 100,000 summed published jobs), distinct from the mean-wage column.
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.