Manhattan, 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 Manhattan, KS moved from $44,510 in May 2024 to $45,900 in May 2025 (+3.1%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Manhattan, KS sits +0.0 pp near that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
Fast Food and Counter Workers shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Manhattan, KS
Fast Food and Counter Workers publishes $27,130 here versus $31,200 nationally (-13.0%; 2,190metro-area jobs).
- Fast Food and Counter Workers$27,130 in Manhattan, KS sits 13.0% below the national Fast Food and Counter Workers median of $31,200 (2,190 published local jobs).
Fast Food and Counter Workers and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Manhattan, KS; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 31740 · Manhattan, KS $55K mean
MEAN-LOW · RPP-LOW · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST
- MEAN-LOW #370/528
- RPP-LOW 90.2
- OCC-MID 235 occs
- TOP-LEAD Physicians, Al… · $295K
- EMP-MIX Software Dev…
- TREND-INLINE +0.0 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Northwestern Ida…
- BOOK-MOST 232 rows · May 2025
Read with Northwestern Idaho nonmetropolitan area ($16 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 Manhattan, KS
Where Manhattan, KS already employs the upper wage tier
Software Developers and Medical and Health Services Managers lead published employment inside Manhattan, KS's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Software Developers 350 jobs · $101,960
- 2. Medical and Health Services Managers 220 jobs · $106,330
- 3. Financial Managers 180 jobs · $137,240
- 4. Education Administrators, Postsecondary 180 jobs · $113,160
- 5. Construction Managers 150 jobs · $111,360
- 6. Computer Occupations, All Other 150 jobs · $97,470
- 7. Physicians, All Other 130 jobs · $294,890
- 8. Sales Managers 130 jobs · $162,920
- 9. Computer and Information Systems Managers 120 jobs · $139,180
- 10. Lawyers 120 jobs · $124,230
- 11. Managers, All Other 110 jobs · $106,610
- 12. Nurse Practitioners 90 jobs · $115,350
- 13. Pharmacists 80 jobs · $139,080
- 14. Chief Executives 80 jobs · $138,290
- 15. Power Plant Operators 70 jobs · $98,840
- 16. Industrial Production Managers 60 jobs · $114,990
- 17. Information Security Analysts 60 jobs · $97,490
- 18. Architectural and Engineering Managers 50 jobs · $157,400
Occupations Tracked
235
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$54,528
employment-weighted, 232 complete rows
Top Salary
$294,890
Physicians, All Other
Cost of Living
90.2
10% below US avg
Top-pay occupations in Manhattan, 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 Manhattan, KS
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Driver/Sales Workers | $17,510 |
| Food Servers, Nonrestaurant | $21,660 |
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $21,770 |
| Dishwashers | $24,370 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $26,240 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $27,130 |
| Bartenders | $27,160 |
| Packers and Packagers, Hand | $27,460 |
| Cooks, Short Order | $27,820 |
| Cashiers | $27,870 |
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 ($54,528 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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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.