Northern West Virginia nonmetropolitan area Salaries
BLS nonmetropolitan reporting area wages for Northern West Virginia nonmetropolitan area (May 2025)
Cashiers shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Northern West Virginia nonmetropolitan area
Cashiers publishes $24,290 here versus $32,880 nationally (-26.1%; 3,960metro-area jobs). Next is Cooks, Fast Food at $22,970 locally versus $30,890 nationally (-25.6%).
- Cashiers$24,290 in Northern West Virginia nonmetropolitan area sits 26.1% below the national Cashiers median of $32,880 (3,960 published local jobs).
- Cooks, Fast Food$22,970 in Northern West Virginia nonmetropolitan area sits 25.6% below the national Cooks, Fast Food median of $30,890 (3,760 published local jobs).
- General and Operations Managers$78,990 in Northern West Virginia nonmetropolitan area sits 25.3% below the national General and Operations Managers median of $105,770 (3,380 published local jobs).
- Home Health and Personal Care Aides$28,010 in Northern West Virginia nonmetropolitan area sits 21.8% below the national Home Health and Personal Care Aides median of $35,800 (4,870 published local jobs).
Cashiers and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Northern West Virginia nonmetropolitan area; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 5400002 · Northern West Virginia nonmetropolitan area $53K mean
MEAN-TRACE · RPP-UNK · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-UNK · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-FULL
- MEAN-TRACE #431/528
- RPP-UNK RPP n/a
- OCC-MID 392 occs
- TOP-LEAD Emergency Medi… · $479K
- EMP-MIX Software Dev…
- TREND-UNK Pay chg n/a
- PHOTO-FINISH Southwest Virgin…
- BOOK-FULL 382 rows · May 2025
Read with Southwest Virginia nonmetropolitan area ($32 on published-row mean) · Understanding BLS wage data
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 Northern West Virginia nonm…
Largest published OEWS rows in this nonmetropolitan area
Software Developers and Pharmacists lead published employment inside Northern West Virginia nonmetropolitan area's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Software Developers 520 jobs · $116,140
- 2. Pharmacists 460 jobs · $136,180
- 3. Managers, All Other 430 jobs · $116,390
- 4. Nurse Practitioners 390 jobs · $123,410
- 5. Industrial Production Managers 360 jobs · $107,000
- 6. Chief Executives 320 jobs · $139,830
- 7. Physicians, All Other 290 jobs · $272,040
- 8. Speech-Language Pathologists 240 jobs · $107,880
- 9. Physician Assistants 200 jobs · $131,260
- 10. Architectural and Engineering Managers 170 jobs · $136,320
- 11. Computer and Information Systems Managers 150 jobs · $135,920
- 12. Electrical Engineers 150 jobs · $109,470
- 13. First-Line Supervisors of Non-Retail Sales Workers 120 jobs · $115,870
- 14. Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers 110 jobs · $106,340
- 15. Veterinarians 90 jobs · $126,180
- 16. Human Resources Managers 80 jobs · $117,930
- 17. Dentists, General 70 jobs · $146,260
- 18. Engineers, All Other 70 jobs · $110,250
Occupations Tracked
392
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$52,574
employment-weighted, 382 complete rows
Top Salary
$478,600
Emergency Medicine Physicians
Top-pay occupations in Northern West Virginia nonmetropolitan area, 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 Northern West Virginia nonmetropolitan area
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Gambling Service Workers, All Other | $19,550 |
| Office and Administrative Support Workers, All Other | $21,450 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $22,680 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $22,890 |
| Cooks, Fast Food | $22,970 |
| Childcare Workers | $23,640 |
| Ushers, Lobby Attendants, and Ticket Takers | $24,010 |
| Agricultural Workers, All Other | $24,180 |
| Cashiers | $24,290 |
| Bakers | $24,620 |
Other BLS Wage Areas in WV
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 WV. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($52,574 here) and summed published employment.
Similar mean wage
Nearest other metros by employment-weighted published-row annual mean wage.
Similar employment scale
Nearest headcount peers (floor 100,000 summed published jobs), distinct from the mean-wage column.
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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