Urban Honolulu, HI Salaries
Local wages against a high BEA price level (RPP 111.0) - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Urban Honolulu, HI moved from $54,660 in May 2024 to $57,220 in May 2025 (+4.7%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Urban Honolulu, HI sits +1.6 pp ahead of 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.
Bartenders shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Urban Honolulu, HI
Bartenders publishes $75,340 here versus $34,340 nationally (+119.4%; 2,130metro-area jobs). Next is Waiters and Waitresses at $60,250 locally versus $35,230 nationally (+71.0%).
- Bartenders$75,340 in Urban Honolulu, HI sits 119.4% above the national Bartenders median of $34,340 (2,130 published local jobs).
- Waiters and Waitresses$60,250 in Urban Honolulu, HI sits 71.0% above the national Waiters and Waitresses median of $35,230 (8,550 published local jobs).
- Construction Laborers$77,960 in Urban Honolulu, HI sits 65.4% above the national Construction Laborers median of $47,120 (3,040 published local jobs).
- Electricians$100,270 in Urban Honolulu, HI sits 58.7% above the national Electricians median of $63,190 (2,290 published local jobs).
Bartenders and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Urban Honolulu, HI; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 46520 · Urban Honolulu, HI $69K mean
MEAN-HIGH · RPP-ELEV · OCC-MOST · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-FULL
- MEAN-HIGH #55/528
- RPP-ELEV 111.0
- OCC-MOST 477 occs
- TOP-LEAD Physicians, Al… · $339K
- EMP-MIX Registered N…
- TREND-INLINE +1.6 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Fairbanks-Colleg…
- BOOK-FULL 457 rows · May 2025
Read with Fairbanks-College, AK ($56 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 Urban Honolulu, HI
Largest Urban Honolulu, HI payrolls before the high-cost adjustment
Registered Nurses and Financial Managers lead published employment inside Urban Honolulu, HI's top-pay sample, order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Registered Nurses 9,680 jobs · $139,260
- 2. Financial Managers 3,000 jobs · $134,330
- 3. Medical and Health Services Managers 2,140 jobs · $151,180
- 4. Physicians, All Other 1,480 jobs · $339,290
- 5. Computer and Information Systems Managers 1,050 jobs · $141,510
- 6. Architectural and Engineering Managers 1,040 jobs · $150,220
- 7. Pharmacists 890 jobs · $165,090
- 8. Dentists, General 650 jobs · $168,090
- 9. First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives 490 jobs · $140,590
- 10. Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers 450 jobs · $135,080
- 11. Nurse Practitioners 400 jobs · $135,570
- 12. Physician Assistants 390 jobs · $170,060
- 13. Pediatricians, General 380 jobs · $217,280
- 14. Detectives and Criminal Investigators 350 jobs · $140,750
- 15. Chief Executives 340 jobs · $315,920
- 16. Marriage and Family Therapists 190 jobs · $141,960
- 17. Optometrists 170 jobs · $141,770
- 18. Psychiatrists 140 jobs · $289,990
Occupations Tracked
477
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$68,870
employment-weighted, 457 complete rows
Top Salary
$339,290
Physicians, All Other
Cost of Living
111.0
11% above US avg
Highest Paying Jobs in Urban Honolulu, HI
| # | Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Physicians, All Other | $339,290 |
| 2 | Obstetricians and Gynecologists | $338,130 |
| 3 | Chief Executives | $315,920 |
| 4 | Psychiatrists | $289,990 |
| 5 | Family Medicine Physicians | $218,990 |
| 6 | Pediatricians, General | $217,280 |
| 7 | Nurse Midwives | $184,620 |
| 8 | Physician Assistants | $170,060 |
| 9 | Dentists, General | $168,090 |
| 10 | Pharmacists | $165,090 |
| 11 | Medical and Health Services Managers | $151,180 |
| 12 | Architectural and Engineering Managers | $150,220 |
| 13 | Computer Hardware Engineers | $143,020 |
| 14 | Psychologists, All Other | $143,020 |
| 15 | Marriage and Family Therapists | $141,960 |
| 16 | Optometrists | $141,770 |
| 17 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $141,510 |
| 18 | Detectives and Criminal Investigators | $140,750 |
| 19 | First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives | $140,590 |
| 20 | Registered Nurses | $139,260 |
| 21 | Nurse Practitioners | $135,570 |
| 22 | Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers | $135,080 |
| 23 | Managers, All Other | $134,670 |
| 24 | Financial Managers | $134,330 |
| 25 | Database Architects | $134,040 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in Urban Honolulu, HI
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Cooks, Fast Food | $29,120 |
| Ushers, Lobby Attendants, and Ticket Takers | $30,210 |
| Parking Attendants | $30,840 |
| Helpers, Construction Trades, All Other | $30,900 |
| Personal Care and Service Workers, All Other | $31,010 |
| Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and Cosmetologists | $31,020 |
| Office and Administrative Support Workers, All Other | $32,510 |
| Residential Advisors | $32,780 |
| Physical Therapist Aides | $33,810 |
| Laundry and Dry-Cleaning Workers | $33,940 |
Other BLS Wage Areas in HI
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 HI. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($68,870 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 Urban Honolulu, HI wage figures in a real decision
- Physicians, All Other leads published medians in Urban Honolulu, HI at $339,290/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Physicians, All Other
- The employment-weighted published-row mean of $68,870 adjusts to about $62,067 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 111.0. Salary vs cost of living
- Compare this metropolitan statistical area against the statewide occupation table for HI 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.