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.
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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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.