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.
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.
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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How to use Muncie, IN wage figures in a real decision
- Physicians, All Other leads published medians in Muncie, IN at $436,300/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Physicians, All Other
- The employment-weighted published-row mean of $51,709 adjusts to about $58,662 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 88.1. Salary vs cost of living
- Compare this metropolitan statistical area against the statewide occupation table for IN 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.