Muncie, IN Salaries
Local wages where BEA prices sit below the US average (RPP 88.1) - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Muncie, IN moved from $43,000 in May 2024 to $44,110 in May 2025 (+2.6%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Muncie, IN sits -0.5 pp behind that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
Fast Food and Counter Workers shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Muncie, IN
Fast Food and Counter Workers publishes $27,560 here versus $31,200 nationally (-11.7%; 2,120metro-area jobs).
- Fast Food and Counter Workers$27,560 in Muncie, IN sits 11.7% below the national Fast Food and Counter Workers median of $31,200 (2,120 published local jobs).
Fast Food and Counter Workers and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Muncie, IN; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 34620 · Muncie, IN $52K mean
MEAN-TRACE · RPP-LOW · OCC-THIN · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST
- MEAN-TRACE #448/528
- RPP-LOW 88.1
- OCC-THIN 192 occs
- TOP-LEAD Physicians, Al… · $436K
- EMP-MIX General and…
- TREND-INLINE -0.5 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Owensboro, KY
- BOOK-MOST 190 rows · May 2025
Read with Owensboro, KY ($57 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 Muncie, IN
Where Muncie, IN already employs the upper wage tier
General and Operations Managers and Financial Managers lead published employment inside Muncie, IN's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. General and Operations Managers 640 jobs · $99,750
- 2. Financial Managers 230 jobs · $102,430
- 3. Medical and Health Services Managers 230 jobs · $98,200
- 4. Industrial Engineers 150 jobs · $83,990
- 5. Nurse Practitioners 140 jobs · $122,490
- 6. Pharmacists 120 jobs · $135,280
- 7. Computer and Information Systems Managers 120 jobs · $127,880
- 8. Software Developers 120 jobs · $99,380
- 9. Sales Managers 110 jobs · $112,230
- 10. Physicians, All Other 90 jobs · $436,300
- 11. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 90 jobs · $94,500
- 12. Industrial Production Managers 80 jobs · $102,080
- 13. Physical Therapists 80 jobs · $101,710
- 14. Dental Hygienists 70 jobs · $91,060
- 15. Management Analysts 70 jobs · $82,610
- 16. Lawyers 60 jobs · $102,140
- 17. Mechanical Engineers 60 jobs · $86,010
- 18. Construction Managers 60 jobs · $85,330
Occupations Tracked
192
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$51,709
employment-weighted, 190 complete rows
Top Salary
$436,300
Physicians, All Other
Cost of Living
88.1
12% below US avg
Top-pay occupations in Muncie, IN, 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 | General and Operations Managers | $99,750 |
| 2 | Financial Managers | $102,430 |
| 3 | Medical and Health Services Managers | $98,200 |
| 4 | Industrial Engineers | $83,990 |
| 5 | Nurse Practitioners | $122,490 |
| 6 | Pharmacists | $135,280 |
| 7 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $127,880 |
| 8 | Software Developers | $99,380 |
| 9 | Sales Managers | $112,230 |
| 10 | Physicians, All Other | $436,300 |
| 11 | Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary | $94,500 |
| 12 | Industrial Production Managers | $102,080 |
| 13 | Physical Therapists | $101,710 |
| 14 | Dental Hygienists | $91,060 |
| 15 | Management Analysts | $82,610 |
| 16 | Lawyers | $102,140 |
| 17 | Mechanical Engineers | $86,010 |
| 18 | Construction Managers | $85,330 |
| 19 | General Internal Medicine Physicians | $303,660 |
| 20 | Administrative Services Managers | $100,740 |
| 21 | Occupational Therapists | $94,050 |
| 22 | Dentists, General | $190,750 |
| 23 | Marketing Managers | $102,640 |
| 24 | Architectural and Engineering Managers | $128,370 |
| 25 | Human Resources Managers | $119,310 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in Muncie, IN
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Bartenders | $21,780 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $22,240 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $23,470 |
| Waiters and Waitresses | $23,720 |
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $26,520 |
| Dishwashers | $27,460 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $27,560 |
| Animal Caretakers | $27,770 |
| Food Preparation Workers | $27,860 |
| Cooks, Short Order | $28,030 |
Other BLS Wage Areas in IN
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 IN. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($51,709 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.