Wenatchee-East Wenatchee, WA Salaries

Highest published occupation medians in Wenatchee-East Wenatchee, WA - 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 Wenatchee-East Wenatchee, WA moved from $47,920 in May 2024 to $49,290 in May 2025 (+2.9%).
  • Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
  • Wenatchee-East Wenatchee, WA sits -0.2 pp near that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.

BLS OEWS metro wage desk

MSA 48300 · Wenatchee-East Wenatchee, WA $63K mean

MEAN-MID · RPP-MID · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST

  • MEAN-MID #142/528
  • RPP-MID 103.9
  • OCC-MID 229 occs
  • TOP-LEAD Physicians, Al… · $243K
  • EMP-MIX General and…
  • TREND-INLINE -0.2 pp
  • PHOTO-FINISH Bismarck, ND
  • BOOK-MOST 227 rows · May 2025

Read with Bismarck, ND (+$26 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 Wenatchee-East Wenatchee, WA

Guayama, PR · lowest mean: $32KGuayama, PR · lowest mean$32KWenatchee-East Wenat… · this MSA: $63KWenatchee-East Wenat… · this…$63KBismarck, ND · near: $63KBismarck, ND · near$63KEugene-Springfield, OR · near: $63KEugene-Springfield, OR · near$63KAkron, OH · near: $63KAkron, OH · near$63KAlbuquerque, NM · near: $63KAlbuquerque, NM · near$63KSan Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · highest mean: $119KSan Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · high…$119K
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Label Value
Guayama, PR · lowest mean $32K
Wenatchee-East Wenat… · this MSA $63K
Bismarck, ND · near $63K
Eugene-Springfield, OR · near $63K
Akron, OH · near $63K
Albuquerque, NM · near $63K
San Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · highest mean $119K

Employment scale inside Wenatchee-East Wenatchee, WA's top-pay list

General and Operations Managers and Software Developers lead published employment inside Wenatchee-East Wenatchee, WA's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.

  1. 1. General and Operations Managers 650 jobs · $118,520
  2. 2. Software Developers 160 jobs · $131,970
  3. 3. Financial Managers 130 jobs · $160,690
  4. 4. Medical and Health Services Managers 130 jobs · $119,990
  5. 5. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 120 jobs · $163,170
  6. 6. Pharmacists 120 jobs · $156,490
  7. 7. Dental Hygienists 110 jobs · $118,820
  8. 8. Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers 100 jobs · $124,110
  9. 9. Nurse Practitioners 90 jobs · $142,350
  10. 10. Sales Managers 90 jobs · $136,090
  11. 11. Electrical Engineers 80 jobs · $132,930
  12. 12. Lawyers 80 jobs · $132,270
  13. 13. Power Plant Operators 70 jobs · $145,510
  14. 14. Managers, All Other 70 jobs · $137,940
  15. 15. Computer and Information Systems Managers 60 jobs · $172,520
  16. 16. Physician Assistants 60 jobs · $168,080
  17. 17. Construction Managers 60 jobs · $150,780
  18. 18. Dentists, General 50 jobs · $171,990

Occupations Tracked

229

with wage data

Published-Row Mean

$62,938

employment-weighted, 227 complete rows

Top Salary

$243,330

Physicians, All Other

Cost of Living

103.9

4% above US avg

Price-level adjustment: Dividing the derived published-row mean of $62,938 by the metro RPP gives $60,602 on a national-price basis. This is not an after-tax income or a personal cost-of-living result.

Highest Paying Jobs in Wenatchee-East Wenatchee, WA

# Occupation Median Salary
1 Physicians, All Other $243,330
2 Chief Executives $210,760
3 Computer and Information Systems Managers $172,520
4 Dentists, General $171,990
5 Physician Assistants $168,080
6 Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary $163,170
7 Financial Managers $160,690
8 Pharmacists $156,490
9 Human Resources Managers $154,640
10 Construction Managers $150,780
11 Power Plant Operators $145,510
12 Nurse Practitioners $142,350
13 Managers, All Other $137,940
14 Sales Managers $136,090
15 Electrical Engineers $132,930
16 Lawyers $132,270
17 Software Developers $131,970
18 Facilities Managers $129,110
19 Marketing Managers $128,880
20 Industrial Production Managers $126,780
21 First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives $126,580
22 Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers $124,110
23 Medical and Health Services Managers $119,990
24 Dental Hygienists $118,820
25 General and Operations Managers $118,520

Lowest Paying Jobs in Wenatchee-East Wenatchee, WA

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 ($62,938 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the average salary in Wenatchee-East Wenatchee, WA?
Across the 227 occupation rows for Wenatchee-East Wenatchee, WA with both a published mean wage and employment estimate, weighting each mean by employment gives $62,938/year (BLS OEWS May 2025). The page has 229 occupations with a published median, a different denominator. This WageDex-derived benchmark is not a BLS-published All Occupations metro mean or median and does not state what a typical local worker earns. For contrast, averaging the medians of only the 25 highest-paying occupations gives $148,172, which describes the displayed top tier only.
Which published medians lead Wenatchee-East Wenatchee, WA?
Physicians, All Other holds the highest published median in Wenatchee-East Wenatchee, WA at $243,330/year (BLS OEWS May 2025). Next is Chief Executives at $210,760/year. These are occupation medians for this metropolitan statistical area, not employer offers.
What is the cost of living in Wenatchee-East Wenatchee, WA?
Wenatchee-East Wenatchee, WA has a Regional Price Parity of 103.9, meaning prices are 4% above the national average. Dividing the derived published-row mean of $62,938 by the RPP gives a national-price-equivalent benchmark of $60,602.
Where does BLS salary data for Wenatchee-East Wenatchee, WA come from?
All salary figures are Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS May 2025 estimates for this metropolitan statistical area. OEWS surveys approximately 1.1 million business establishments. Medians and means on this page are the published occupation-level estimates for the area — not job-board scrapes or modeled employer offers.

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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