Topeka, KS Salaries
Local wages where BEA prices sit below the US average (RPP 88.8) - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Topeka, KS moved from $47,840 in May 2024 to $49,540 in May 2025 (+3.6%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Topeka, KS sits +0.5 pp near that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
Based on wage level, year-over-year wage growth, and regional-price-parity-adjusted purchasing power from BLS and BEA sources, not job availability, industry mix, or day-to-day livability.
Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Topeka, KS
Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand publishes $49,140 here versus $40,240 nationally (+22.1%; 2,140metro-area jobs). Next is General and Operations Managers at $85,080 locally versus $105,770 nationally (-19.6%).
- Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand$49,140 in Topeka, KS sits 22.1% above the national Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand median of $40,240 (2,140 published local jobs).
- General and Operations Managers$85,080 in Topeka, KS sits 19.6% below the national General and Operations Managers median of $105,770 (2,450 published local jobs).
- Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive$39,500 in Topeka, KS sits 16.9% below the national Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive median of $47,540 (2,920 published local jobs).
- Registered Nurses$81,820 in Topeka, KS sits 16.1% below the national Registered Nurses median of $97,550 (3,190 published local jobs).
Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Topeka, KS; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 45820 · Topeka, KS $62K mean
MEAN-MID · RPP-LOW · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-FULL
- MEAN-MID #160/528
- RPP-LOW 88.8
- OCC-MID 333 occs
- TOP-LEAD Physicians, Al… · $452K
- EMP-MIX Software Dev…
- TREND-INLINE +0.5 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Kalamazoo-Portag…
- BOOK-FULL 330 rows · May 2025
Read with Kalamazoo-Portage, MI ($29 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 Topeka, KS
Where Topeka, KS already employs the upper wage tier
Software Developers and Physicians, All Other lead published employment inside Topeka, KS's top-pay sample, order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Software Developers 1,500 jobs · $111,870
- 2. Physicians, All Other 500 jobs · $451,910
- 3. Nurse Practitioners 500 jobs · $132,740
- 4. Medical and Health Services Managers 440 jobs · $109,490
- 5. Sales Managers 380 jobs · $154,970
- 6. Financial Managers 370 jobs · $145,950
- 7. Computer and Information Systems Managers 360 jobs · $143,320
- 8. Pharmacists 280 jobs · $140,820
- 9. Chief Executives 240 jobs · $140,330
- 10. Electrical Engineers 220 jobs · $125,330
- 11. Construction Managers 200 jobs · $123,180
- 12. Marketing Managers 190 jobs · $205,310
- 13. Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products 190 jobs · $157,760
- 14. Administrative Services Managers 130 jobs · $130,100
- 15. Industrial Production Managers 120 jobs · $119,550
- 16. Architectural and Engineering Managers 110 jobs · $165,380
- 17. Human Resources Managers 110 jobs · $129,290
- 18. Facilities Managers 100 jobs · $128,460
Occupations Tracked
333
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$61,574
employment-weighted, 330 complete rows
Top Salary
$451,910
Physicians, All Other
Cost of Living
88.8
11% below US avg
Top-pay occupations in Topeka, 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 Topeka, KS
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $22,290 |
| Animal Caretakers | $25,630 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $26,410 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $26,570 |
| Food Servers, Nonrestaurant | $26,670 |
| Cooks, Fast Food | $26,680 |
| Ushers, Lobby Attendants, and Ticket Takers | $26,940 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $27,810 |
| Bartenders | $27,860 |
| Dishwashers | $27,920 |
Other BLS Wage Areas in KS
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 KS. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($61,574 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 Topeka, KS wage figures in a real decision
- Physicians, All Other leads published medians in Topeka, KS at $451,910/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Physicians, All Other
- The employment-weighted published-row mean of $61,574 adjusts to about $69,324 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 88.8. Salary vs cost of living
- Compare this metropolitan statistical area against the statewide occupation table for KS 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 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.