Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH Salaries

Local wages where BEA prices sit below the US average (RPP 89.0) - BLS OEWS May 2025

Observed metro pay change

What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025

May 2024 → May 2025
  • BLS's published All Occupations median in Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH moved from $44,830 in May 2024 to $45,840 in May 2025 (+2.3%).
  • Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
  • Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH sits -0.8 pp behind that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.

BLS OEWS metro wage desk

MSA 48260 · Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH $53K mean

MEAN-TRACE · RPP-LOW · OCC-THIN · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST

  • MEAN-TRACE #415/528
  • RPP-LOW 89.0
  • OCC-THIN 180 occs
  • TOP-LEAD Physicians, Al… · $238K
  • EMP-MIX Medical and…
  • TREND-INLINE -0.8 pp
  • PHOTO-FINISH Tuscaloosa, AL
  • BOOK-MOST 180 rows · May 2025

Read with Tuscaloosa, AL ($13 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 Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH

Guayama, PR · lowest mean: $32KGuayama, PR · lowest mean$32KWeirton-Steubenville… · this MSA: $53KWeirton-Steubenville… · this…$53KTuscaloosa, AL · near: $53KTuscaloosa, AL · near$53KSandusky, OH · near: $53KSandusky, OH · near$53KNorthern Indiana non… · near: $53KNorthern Indiana non… · near$53KSouthwest Iowa nonme… · near: $53KSouthwest Iowa nonme… · near$53KSan Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · highest mean: $119KSan Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · high…$119K
Read the chart as text
Label Value
Guayama, PR · lowest mean $32K
Weirton-Steubenville… · this MSA $53K
Tuscaloosa, AL · near $53K
Sandusky, OH · near $53K
Northern Indiana non… · near $53K
Southwest Iowa nonme… · near $53K
San Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · highest mean $119K

Where Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH already employs the upper wage tier

Medical and Health Services Managers and Pharmacists lead published employment inside Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.

  1. 1. Medical and Health Services Managers 150 jobs · $103,720
  2. 2. Pharmacists 130 jobs · $129,630
  3. 3. Nurse Practitioners 120 jobs · $117,400
  4. 4. Project Management Specialists 110 jobs · $95,220
  5. 5. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 110 jobs · $88,020
  6. 6. Financial Managers 100 jobs · $109,340
  7. 7. Managers, All Other 100 jobs · $104,630
  8. 8. Physicians, All Other 90 jobs · $238,040
  9. 9. Physical Therapists 90 jobs · $94,550
  10. 10. Industrial Engineers 80 jobs · $100,470
  11. 11. Construction Managers 80 jobs · $99,990
  12. 12. Industrial Production Managers 70 jobs · $119,190
  13. 13. Administrative Services Managers 60 jobs · $96,200
  14. 14. Lawyers 60 jobs · $94,760
  15. 15. Occupational Therapists 60 jobs · $92,580
  16. 16. Chief Executives 50 jobs · $139,950
  17. 17. Sales Managers 50 jobs · $132,350
  18. 18. Physician Assistants 50 jobs · $119,070

Occupations Tracked

180

with wage data

Published-Row Mean

$53,097

employment-weighted, 180 complete rows

Top Salary

$238,040

Physicians, All Other

Cost of Living

89.0

11% below US avg

Price-level adjustment: Dividing the derived published-row mean of $53,097 by the metro RPP gives $59,643 on a national-price basis. This is not an after-tax income or a personal cost-of-living result.

Top-pay occupations in Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH, by employment

Same top-pay sample as the salary ranking, sorted by published local jobs so the title sequence follows the OEWS mix.

# Occupation Median Salary
1 Medical and Health Services Managers $103,720
2 Pharmacists $129,630
3 Nurse Practitioners $117,400
4 Project Management Specialists $95,220
5 Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary $88,020
6 Financial Managers $109,340
7 Managers, All Other $104,630
8 Physicians, All Other $238,040
9 Physical Therapists $94,550
10 Industrial Engineers $100,470
11 Construction Managers $99,990
12 Industrial Production Managers $119,190
13 Administrative Services Managers $96,200
14 Lawyers $94,760
15 Occupational Therapists $92,580
16 Chief Executives $139,950
17 Sales Managers $132,350
18 Physician Assistants $119,070
19 Software Developers $118,130
20 Electrical Engineers $103,080
21 Management Analysts $95,940
22 Computer and Information Systems Managers $139,700
23 Civil Engineers $90,120
24 Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers $89,810
25 Human Resources Managers $123,440

Lowest Paying Jobs in Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH

Other BLS Wage Areas in WV

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 WV. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($53,097 here) and summed published employment.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does the lower price level do to Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH wage reading?
The employment-weighted published-row mean across 180 occupation rows is $53,097/year (BLS OEWS May 2025). BEA RPP 89.0 puts local prices 11% below the US average, so the same mean reads as $59,643 in national-price terms. Page lists 180 occupations with a published median — a different denominator. The top-tier median average of the 25 highest-paying rows is $113,413.
What is the highest paying job in Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH?
The highest paying occupation in Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH is Physicians, All Other with a median salary of $238,040/year. The second highest is Chief Executives at $139,950/year.
What jobs pay the least in Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH?
The lowest paying occupation in Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH is Gambling Change Persons and Booth Cashiers with a median salary of $22,210/year according to BLS data.
Which federal tables feed Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH's wage and price figures?
Occupation wages are BLS OEWS May 2025 estimates for this metropolitan statistical area. The price-level figure is BEA Regional Price Parities for the matching metro area (latest published year on the page). WageDex divides the employment-weighted published-row mean by RPP only when both inputs exist; it does not substitute a national RPP.

Last updated: May 2025 (BLS OEWS annual release). Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS May 2025. Cost-of-living index: BEA Regional Price Parities, 2024.

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.

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