Sioux City, IA-NE-SD Salaries
Local wages where BEA prices sit below the US average (RPP 86.5) - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Sioux City, IA-NE-SD moved from $45,930 in May 2024 to $47,030 in May 2025 (+2.4%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Sioux City, IA-NE-SD sits -0.7 pp behind that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
Retail Salespersons shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Sioux City, IA-NE-SD
Retail Salespersons publishes $30,150 here versus $35,410 nationally (-14.9%; 2,220metro-area jobs). Next is Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers at $51,540 locally versus $58,640 nationally (-12.1%).
- Retail Salespersons$30,150 in Sioux City, IA-NE-SD sits 14.9% below the national Retail Salespersons median of $35,410 (2,220 published local jobs).
- Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers$51,540 in Sioux City, IA-NE-SD sits 12.1% below the national Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers median of $58,640 (2,820 published local jobs).
- Fast Food and Counter Workers$29,090 in Sioux City, IA-NE-SD sits 6.8% below the national Fast Food and Counter Workers median of $31,200 (2,060 published local jobs).
Retail Salespersons and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Sioux City, IA-NE-SD; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 43580 · Sioux City, IA-NE-SD $55K mean
MEAN-LOW · RPP-QUIET · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST
- MEAN-LOW #350/528
- RPP-QUIET 86.5
- OCC-MID 288 occs
- TOP-LEAD Physicians, Al… · $300K
- EMP-MIX Financial Ma…
- TREND-INLINE -0.7 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Huntington-Ashla…
- BOOK-MOST 288 rows · May 2025
Read with Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH ($4 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 Sioux City, IA-NE-SD
Where Sioux City, IA-NE-SD already employs the upper wage tier
Financial Managers and Industrial Production Managers lead published employment inside Sioux City, IA-NE-SD's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Financial Managers 230 jobs · $134,510
- 2. Industrial Production Managers 210 jobs · $122,430
- 3. Nurse Practitioners 150 jobs · $129,060
- 4. Lawyers 150 jobs · $120,790
- 5. Construction Managers 140 jobs · $114,960
- 6. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 140 jobs · $104,380
- 7. Chief Executives 130 jobs · $220,590
- 8. Computer Occupations, All Other 130 jobs · $108,820
- 9. Industrial Engineers 130 jobs · $105,660
- 10. Pharmacists 120 jobs · $139,600
- 11. Sales Managers 120 jobs · $132,150
- 12. Managers, All Other 100 jobs · $105,370
- 13. Computer and Information Systems Managers 90 jobs · $135,570
- 14. Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products 90 jobs · $104,460
- 15. Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers 90 jobs · $102,340
- 16. Physician Assistants 70 jobs · $130,970
- 17. Computer Network Architects 70 jobs · $114,050
- 18. First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives 70 jobs · $105,000
Occupations Tracked
288
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$55,096
employment-weighted, 288 complete rows
Top Salary
$300,040
Physicians, All Other
Cost of Living
86.5
14% below US avg
Top-pay occupations in Sioux City, IA-NE-SD, 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 Sioux City, IA-NE-SD
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Bartenders | $23,750 |
| Waiters and Waitresses | $26,430 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $27,110 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $28,080 |
| Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service Workers | $28,080 |
| Cooks, Fast Food | $28,390 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $29,090 |
| Dishwashers | $29,230 |
| Childcare Workers | $29,330 |
| Cashiers | $29,470 |
Other BLS Wage Areas in IA
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 IA. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($55,096 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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