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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How to use Northern West Virginia nonmetropolitan area wage figures in a real decision
- Emergency Medicine Physicians leads published medians in Northern West Virginia nonmetropolitan area at $478,600/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Emergency Medicine Physicians
- Northern West Virginia nonmetropolitan area's employment-weighted published-row mean is $52,574 across 382 occupation rows with employment estimates. Understanding BLS data
- Compare this nonmetropolitan area against the statewide occupation table for WV 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 local-area 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.