St. Joseph, MO-KS Salaries
Local wages where BEA prices sit below the US average (RPP 86.4) - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in St. Joseph, MO-KS moved from $46,420 in May 2024 to $47,350 in May 2025 (+2.0%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- St. Joseph, MO-KS sits -1.1 pp behind that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 41140 · St. Joseph, MO-KS $57K mean
MEAN-LOW · RPP-QUIET · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST
- MEAN-LOW #309/528
- RPP-QUIET 86.4
- OCC-MID 232 occs
- TOP-LEAD Family Medicin… · $400K
- EMP-MIX Medical and…
- TREND-INLINE -1.1 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Panama City-Pana…
- BOOK-MOST 231 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 St. Joseph, MO-KS
Where St. Joseph, MO-KS already employs the upper wage tier
Medical and Health Services Managers and Industrial Production Managers lead published employment inside St. Joseph, MO-KS's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Medical and Health Services Managers 200 jobs · $98,080
- 2. Industrial Production Managers 180 jobs · $128,370
- 3. Managers, All Other 150 jobs · $125,750
- 4. Financial Managers 150 jobs · $123,420
- 5. Nurse Practitioners 140 jobs · $128,710
- 6. Pharmacists 120 jobs · $131,720
- 7. Sales Managers 120 jobs · $106,130
- 8. Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers 90 jobs · $100,340
- 9. Physical Therapists 90 jobs · $99,310
- 10. Software Developers 90 jobs · $98,570
- 11. Family Medicine Physicians 80 jobs · $400,000
- 12. Computer and Information Systems Managers 80 jobs · $130,170
- 13. Construction Managers 70 jobs · $116,540
- 14. Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers 70 jobs · $104,540
- 15. Physicians, All Other 60 jobs · $217,670
- 16. Marketing Managers 60 jobs · $123,480
- 17. Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products 60 jobs · $100,720
- 18. Dentists, General 50 jobs · $207,450
Occupations Tracked
232
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$56,603
employment-weighted, 231 complete rows
Top Salary
$400,000
Family Medicine Physicians
Cost of Living
86.4
14% below US avg
Top-pay occupations in St. Joseph, MO-KS, 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 St. Joseph, MO-KS
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Library Assistants, Clerical | $28,600 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $28,600 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $28,600 |
| Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and Cosmetologists | $28,730 |
| Food Preparation Workers | $28,960 |
| Bartenders | $29,000 |
| Childcare Workers | $29,130 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $29,430 |
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $29,460 |
| Cooks, Fast Food | $29,620 |
Other BLS Wage Areas in MO
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 MO. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($56,603 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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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.