Walla Walla, WA Salaries
Highest published occupation medians in Walla Walla, WA - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Walla Walla, WA moved from $49,920 in May 2024 to $53,100 in May 2025 (+6.4%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Walla Walla, WA sits +3.3 pp ahead of that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 47460 · Walla Walla, WA $64K mean
MEAN-HIGH · RPP-MID · OCC-THIN · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-AHEAD · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST
- MEAN-HIGH #111/528
- RPP-MID 98.5
- OCC-THIN 162 occs
- TOP-LEAD Physicians, Al… · $220K
- EMP-MIX Registered N…
- TREND-AHEAD +3.3 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Yuba City, CA
- BOOK-MOST 162 rows · May 2025
Read with Yuba City, CA ($61 on published-row mean) · Highest-paying careers
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 Walla Walla, WA
Employment scale inside Walla Walla, WA's top-pay list
Registered Nurses and General and Operations Managers lead published employment inside Walla Walla, WA's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Registered Nurses 810 jobs · $116,970
- 2. General and Operations Managers 280 jobs · $106,690
- 3. Civil Engineers 190 jobs · $123,030
- 4. Management Analysts 180 jobs · $115,210
- 5. Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education 120 jobs · $104,940
- 6. Software Developers 90 jobs · $114,920
- 7. Medical and Health Services Managers 70 jobs · $135,030
- 8. Mechanical Engineers 70 jobs · $108,510
- 9. Physicians, All Other 60 jobs · $219,860
- 10. Pharmacists 60 jobs · $165,210
- 11. Financial Managers 60 jobs · $144,410
- 12. Managers, All Other 60 jobs · $138,170
- 13. Education Administrators, Postsecondary 60 jobs · $105,390
- 14. Nurse Practitioners 50 jobs · $130,380
- 15. Dental Hygienists 50 jobs · $106,680
- 16. Architectural and Engineering Managers 40 jobs · $157,030
- 17. Sales Managers 40 jobs · $149,190
- 18. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 40 jobs · $137,660
Occupations Tracked
162
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$64,431
employment-weighted, 162 complete rows
Top Salary
$219,860
Physicians, All Other
Cost of Living
98.5
1% below US avg
Highest Paying Jobs in Walla Walla, WA
| # | Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Physicians, All Other | $219,860 |
| 2 | Pharmacists | $165,210 |
| 3 | Physician Assistants | $161,980 |
| 4 | Architectural and Engineering Managers | $157,030 |
| 5 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $152,090 |
| 6 | Sales Managers | $149,190 |
| 7 | Financial Managers | $144,410 |
| 8 | Managers, All Other | $138,170 |
| 9 | Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary | $137,660 |
| 10 | Lawyers | $136,990 |
| 11 | Medical and Health Services Managers | $135,030 |
| 12 | Nurse Practitioners | $130,380 |
| 13 | Industrial Production Managers | $128,750 |
| 14 | Civil Engineers | $123,030 |
| 15 | Electrical Engineers | $121,120 |
| 16 | Registered Nurses | $116,970 |
| 17 | Physical Therapists | $115,740 |
| 18 | Management Analysts | $115,210 |
| 19 | Software Developers | $114,920 |
| 20 | Mechanical Engineers | $108,510 |
| 21 | General and Operations Managers | $106,690 |
| 22 | Dental Hygienists | $106,680 |
| 23 | Education Administrators, Postsecondary | $105,390 |
| 24 | Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education | $104,940 |
| 25 | Computer Occupations, All Other | $104,590 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in Walla Walla, WA
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $34,650 |
| Packers and Packagers, Hand | $34,890 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $35,020 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $35,510 |
| Cleaners of Vehicles and Equipment | $35,590 |
| Hotel, Motel, and Resort Desk Clerks | $35,670 |
| Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse | $35,740 |
| Cashiers | $35,930 |
| Childcare Workers | $36,040 |
| Dishwashers | $36,110 |
Other BLS Wage Areas in WA
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 WA. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($64,431 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.