Southern West Virginia nonmetropolitan area Salaries
BLS nonmetropolitan reporting area wages for Southern West Virginia nonmetropolitan area (May 2025)
Cashiers shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Southern West Virginia nonmetropolitan area
Cashiers publishes $22,860 here versus $32,880 nationally (-30.5%; 2,570metro-area jobs). Next is Home Health and Personal Care Aides at $27,400 locally versus $35,800 nationally (-23.5%).
- Cashiers$22,860 in Southern West Virginia nonmetropolitan area sits 30.5% below the national Cashiers median of $32,880 (2,570 published local jobs).
- Home Health and Personal Care Aides$27,400 in Southern West Virginia nonmetropolitan area sits 23.5% below the national Home Health and Personal Care Aides median of $35,800 (3,160 published local jobs).
Cashiers and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Southern West Virginia nonmetropolitan area; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 5400001 · Southern West Virginia nonmetropolitan area $50K mean
MEAN-TRACE · RPP-UNK · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-UNK · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST
- MEAN-TRACE #477/528
- RPP-UNK RPP n/a
- OCC-MID 282 occs
- TOP-LEAD Family Medicin… · $282K
- EMP-MIX First-Line S…
- TREND-UNK Pay chg n/a
- PHOTO-FINISH Southwest Louisi…
- BOOK-MOST 275 rows · May 2025
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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 Southern West Virginia nonm…
Largest published OEWS rows in this nonmetropolitan area
First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers and Nurse Practitioners lead published employment inside Southern West Virginia nonmetropolitan area's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers 840 jobs · $99,630
- 2. Nurse Practitioners 310 jobs · $126,360
- 3. Financial Managers 280 jobs · $97,240
- 4. Pharmacists 220 jobs · $130,410
- 5. Chief Executives 220 jobs · $123,600
- 6. Managers, All Other 220 jobs · $104,220
- 7. Medical and Health Services Managers 190 jobs · $102,550
- 8. Lawyers 170 jobs · $101,340
- 9. Occupational Health and Safety Specialists 120 jobs · $101,410
- 10. Physical Therapists 120 jobs · $94,910
- 11. Physician Assistants 110 jobs · $125,730
- 12. Software Developers 110 jobs · $108,820
- 13. Mining and Geological Engineers, Including Mining Safety Engineers 100 jobs · $99,570
- 14. Physicians, All Other 90 jobs · $252,400
- 15. Industrial Production Managers 90 jobs · $135,000
- 16. Facilities Managers 90 jobs · $109,020
- 17. Dentists, General 70 jobs · $186,300
- 18. Family Medicine Physicians 60 jobs · $281,510
Occupations Tracked
282
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$49,974
employment-weighted, 275 complete rows
Top Salary
$281,510
Family Medicine Physicians
Top-pay occupations in Southern 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 Southern West Virginia nonmetropolitan area
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Agricultural Workers, All Other | $20,580 |
| Gambling Change Persons and Booth Cashiers | $21,700 |
| Office and Administrative Support Workers, All Other | $21,970 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $22,610 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $22,800 |
| Cashiers | $22,860 |
| Cooks, Fast Food | $23,030 |
| Packers and Packagers, Hand | $23,760 |
| Hotel, Motel, and Resort Desk Clerks | $24,960 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $24,960 |
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 ($49,974 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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