Niles, MI Salaries

Highest published occupation medians in Niles, MI - BLS OEWS May 2025

Observed metro pay change

What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025

May 2024 → May 2025
  • BLS's published All Occupations median in Niles, MI moved from $45,180 in May 2024 to $45,980 in May 2025 (+1.8%).
  • Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
  • Niles, MI sits -1.3 pp behind that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.

BLS OEWS metro wage desk

MSA 35660 · Niles, MI $56K mean

MEAN-LOW · RPP-LOW · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST

  • MEAN-LOW #332/528
  • RPP-LOW 92.4
  • OCC-MID 239 occs
  • TOP-LEAD Family Medicin… · $230K
  • EMP-MIX Mechanical E…
  • TREND-INLINE -1.3 pp
  • PHOTO-FINISH Punta Gorda, FL
  • BOOK-MOST 239 rows · May 2025

Read with Punta Gorda, FL (+$1 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 Niles, MI

Guayama, PR · lowest mean: $32KGuayama, PR · lowest mean$32KNiles, MI · this MSA: $56KNiles, MI · this MSA$56KPunta Gorda, FL · near: $56KPunta Gorda, FL · near$56KWest Central Illinoi… · near: $56KWest Central Illinoi… · near$56KSpringfield, MO · near: $56KSpringfield, MO · near$56KSlidell-Mandeville-C… · near: $56KSlidell-Mandeville-C… · near$56KSan Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · highest mean: $119KSan Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · high…$119K
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Label Value
Guayama, PR · lowest mean $32K
Niles, MI · this MSA $56K
Punta Gorda, FL · near $56K
West Central Illinoi… · near $56K
Springfield, MO · near $56K
Slidell-Mandeville-C… · near $56K
San Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · highest mean $119K

Employment scale inside Niles, MI's top-pay list

Mechanical Engineers and Financial Managers lead published employment inside Niles, MI's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.

  1. 1. Mechanical Engineers 550 jobs · $106,320
  2. 2. Financial Managers 260 jobs · $127,650
  3. 3. Architectural and Engineering Managers 240 jobs · $146,850
  4. 4. Sales Managers 240 jobs · $136,880
  5. 5. Industrial Production Managers 240 jobs · $109,470
  6. 6. Software Developers 160 jobs · $111,720
  7. 7. Computer and Information Systems Managers 150 jobs · $162,310
  8. 8. Medical and Health Services Managers 140 jobs · $106,660
  9. 9. Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers 140 jobs · $106,630
  10. 10. Electrical Engineers 130 jobs · $104,310
  11. 11. Lawyers 110 jobs · $123,030
  12. 12. Marketing Managers 90 jobs · $159,810
  13. 13. Managers, All Other 90 jobs · $150,350
  14. 14. Pharmacists 90 jobs · $140,290
  15. 15. Nurse Practitioners 90 jobs · $127,700
  16. 16. Physical Therapists 80 jobs · $106,020
  17. 17. Human Resources Managers 70 jobs · $148,360
  18. 18. Occupational Health and Safety Specialists 70 jobs · $113,680

Occupations Tracked

239

with wage data

Published-Row Mean

$55,674

employment-weighted, 239 complete rows

Top Salary

$229,740

Family Medicine Physicians

Cost of Living

92.4

8% below US avg

Price-level adjustment: Dividing the derived published-row mean of $55,674 by the metro RPP gives $60,273 on a national-price basis. This is not an after-tax income or a personal cost-of-living result.

Highest Paying Jobs in Niles, MI

# Occupation Median Salary
1 Family Medicine Physicians $229,740
2 Chief Executives $210,620
3 Dentists, General $165,950
4 Computer and Information Systems Managers $162,310
5 Marketing Managers $159,810
6 Managers, All Other $150,350
7 Human Resources Managers $148,360
8 Architectural and Engineering Managers $146,850
9 Pharmacists $140,290
10 Sales Managers $136,880
11 Physician Assistants $128,480
12 Nurse Practitioners $127,700
13 Financial Managers $127,650
14 Lawyers $123,030
15 Occupational Health and Safety Specialists $113,680
16 Software Developers $111,720
17 Industrial Production Managers $109,470
18 Medical and Health Services Managers $106,660
19 Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers $106,630
20 Mechanical Engineers $106,320
21 Physical Therapists $106,020
22 Electrical Engineers $104,310
23 Control and Valve Installers and Repairers, Except Mechanical Door $103,580
24 Purchasing Managers $100,890
25 Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers $99,850

Lowest Paying Jobs in Niles, MI

Other BLS Wage Areas in MI

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 MI. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($55,674 here) and summed published employment.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the average salary in Niles, MI?
Across the 239 occupation rows for Niles, MI with both a published mean wage and employment estimate, weighting each mean by employment gives $55,674/year (BLS OEWS May 2025). The page has 239 occupations with a published median, a different denominator. This WageDex-derived benchmark is not a BLS-published All Occupations metro mean or median and does not state what a typical local worker earns. For contrast, averaging the medians of only the 25 highest-paying occupations gives $133,086, which describes the displayed top tier only.
Which published medians lead Niles, MI?
Family Medicine Physicians holds the highest published median in Niles, MI at $229,740/year (BLS OEWS May 2025). Next is Chief Executives at $210,620/year. These are occupation medians for this metropolitan statistical area, not employer offers.
What is the cost of living in Niles, MI?
Niles, MI has a Regional Price Parity of 92.4, meaning prices are 8% below the national average. Dividing the derived published-row mean of $55,674 by the RPP gives a national-price-equivalent benchmark of $60,273.
Where does BLS salary data for Niles, MI come from?
All salary figures are Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS May 2025 estimates for this metropolitan statistical area. OEWS surveys approximately 1.1 million business establishments. Medians and means on this page are the published occupation-level estimates for the area — not job-board scrapes or modeled employer offers.

Last updated: May 2025 (BLS OEWS annual release). Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS May 2025. Cost-of-living index: BEA Regional Price Parities, 2024.

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.

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