Longview-Kelso, WA Salaries
Highest published occupation medians in Longview-Kelso, WA - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Longview-Kelso, WA moved from $54,120 in May 2024 to $57,420 in May 2025 (+6.1%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Longview-Kelso, WA sits +3.0 pp ahead of 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 31020 · Longview-Kelso, WA $65K mean
MEAN-HIGH · RPP-MID · OCC-THIN · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-AHEAD · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST
- MEAN-HIGH #102/528
- RPP-MID 97.5
- OCC-THIN 198 occs
- TOP-LEAD Judges, Magist… · $228K
- EMP-MIX General and…
- TREND-AHEAD +3.0 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH North Valley-Nor…
- BOOK-MOST 196 rows · May 2025
Read with North Valley-Northern Mountains Region of California nonmetropolitan area (+$5 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 Longview-Kelso, WA
Employment scale inside Longview-Kelso, WA's top-pay list
General and Operations Managers and First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers lead published employment inside Longview-Kelso, WA's top-pay sample, order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. General and Operations Managers 600 jobs · $125,600
- 2. First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers 290 jobs · $106,120
- 3. Software Developers 150 jobs · $130,000
- 4. Financial Managers 110 jobs · $158,880
- 5. Industrial Production Managers 100 jobs · $163,970
- 6. Dental Hygienists 100 jobs · $123,020
- 7. Computer Systems Analysts 100 jobs · $122,380
- 8. Sales Managers 80 jobs · $172,930
- 9. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 80 jobs · $162,170
- 10. Pharmacists 70 jobs · $172,630
- 11. Computer and Information Systems Managers 70 jobs · $171,190
- 12. Construction Managers 60 jobs · $154,300
- 13. Nurse Practitioners 60 jobs · $148,960
- 14. Medical and Health Services Managers 60 jobs · $134,790
- 15. Managers, All Other 60 jobs · $133,420
- 16. Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers 60 jobs · $122,240
- 17. Network and Computer Systems Administrators 50 jobs · $107,890
- 18. Judges, Magistrate Judges, and Magistrates 40 jobs · $228,330
Occupations Tracked
198
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$65,354
employment-weighted, 196 complete rows
Top Salary
$228,330
Judges, Magistrate Judges, and Magistrates
Cost of Living
97.5
2% below US avg
Highest Paying Jobs in Longview-Kelso, WA
Lowest Paying Jobs in Longview-Kelso, WA
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse | $35,860 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $36,020 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $36,240 |
| Cashiers | $36,350 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $36,390 |
| Cooks, Fast Food | $36,550 |
| Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and Cosmetologists | $36,590 |
| Animal Caretakers | $36,690 |
| Dishwashers | $36,880 |
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $36,980 |
Other BLS Wage Areas in WA
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 WA. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($65,354 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 Longview-Kelso, WA wage figures in a real decision
- Judges, Magistrate Judges, and Magistrates leads published medians in Longview-Kelso, WA at $228,330/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Judges, Magistrate Judges, and Magistrates
- The employment-weighted published-row mean of $65,354 adjusts to about $66,999 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 97.5. Salary vs cost of living
- Compare this metropolitan statistical area against the statewide occupation table for WA 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.