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
- 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
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. General and Operations Managers 650 jobs · $118,520
- 2. Software Developers 160 jobs · $131,970
- 3. Financial Managers 130 jobs · $160,690
- 4. Medical and Health Services Managers 130 jobs · $119,990
- 5. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 120 jobs · $163,170
- 6. Pharmacists 120 jobs · $156,490
- 7. Dental Hygienists 110 jobs · $118,820
- 8. Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers 100 jobs · $124,110
- 9. Nurse Practitioners 90 jobs · $142,350
- 10. Sales Managers 90 jobs · $136,090
- 11. Electrical Engineers 80 jobs · $132,930
- 12. Lawyers 80 jobs · $132,270
- 13. Power Plant Operators 70 jobs · $145,510
- 14. Managers, All Other 70 jobs · $137,940
- 15. Computer and Information Systems Managers 60 jobs · $172,520
- 16. Physician Assistants 60 jobs · $168,080
- 17. Construction Managers 60 jobs · $150,780
- 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
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
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Graders and Sorters, Agricultural Products | $35,080 |
| Food Servers, Nonrestaurant | $35,580 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $35,850 |
| Packers and Packagers, Hand | $35,990 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $36,050 |
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $36,060 |
| Cooks, Fast Food | $36,260 |
| Dishwashers | $36,390 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $36,450 |
| Cashiers | $36,550 |
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.
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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.