Yakima, WA Salaries
Highest published occupation medians in Yakima, WA - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Yakima, WA moved from $46,740 in May 2024 to $47,810 in May 2025 (+2.3%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Yakima, WA sits -0.8 pp behind that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Yakima, WA
Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary publishes $47,380 here versus $36,780 nationally (+28.8%; 2,150metro-area jobs). Next is Home Health and Personal Care Aides at $44,490 locally versus $35,800 nationally (+24.3%).
- Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary$47,380 in Yakima, WA sits 28.8% above the national Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary median of $36,780 (2,150 published local jobs).
- Home Health and Personal Care Aides$44,490 in Yakima, WA sits 24.3% above the national Home Health and Personal Care Aides median of $35,800 (4,770 published local jobs).
- Fast Food and Counter Workers$35,830 in Yakima, WA sits 14.8% above the national Fast Food and Counter Workers median of $31,200 (3,280 published local jobs).
- Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse$39,070 in Yakima, WA sits 9.6% above the national Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse median of $35,660 (4,550 published local jobs).
Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Yakima, WA; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 49420 · Yakima, WA $60K mean
MEAN-MID · RPP-MID · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST
- MEAN-MID #189/528
- RPP-MID 95.5
- OCC-MID 291 occs
- TOP-LEAD Physicians, Al… · $293K
- EMP-MIX General and…
- TREND-INLINE -0.8 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Merced, CA
- BOOK-MOST 290 rows · May 2025
Read with Merced, CA (+$35 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 Yakima, WA
Employment scale inside Yakima, WA's top-pay list
General and Operations Managers and Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary lead published employment inside Yakima, WA's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. General and Operations Managers 1,010 jobs · $119,470
- 2. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 300 jobs · $151,280
- 3. Physicians, All Other 260 jobs · $293,080
- 4. Lawyers 230 jobs · $131,660
- 5. Nurse Practitioners 200 jobs · $138,860
- 6. Financial Managers 180 jobs · $157,550
- 7. Pharmacists 180 jobs · $146,650
- 8. Sales Managers 160 jobs · $152,110
- 9. Dental Hygienists 160 jobs · $120,690
- 10. Medical and Health Services Managers 150 jobs · $127,720
- 11. Physician Assistants 120 jobs · $136,570
- 12. First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives 110 jobs · $128,770
- 13. Marketing Managers 100 jobs · $162,340
- 14. Veterinarians 100 jobs · $158,180
- 15. Dentists, General 90 jobs · $200,130
- 16. Education Administrators, Postsecondary 80 jobs · $166,310
- 17. Computer and Information Systems Managers 80 jobs · $159,120
- 18. Industrial Production Managers 80 jobs · $129,990
Occupations Tracked
291
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$60,433
employment-weighted, 290 complete rows
Top Salary
$293,080
Physicians, All Other
Cost of Living
95.5
4% below US avg
Highest Paying Jobs in Yakima, WA
Lowest Paying Jobs in Yakima, WA
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service Workers | $34,650 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $34,670 |
| Graders and Sorters, Agricultural Products | $34,750 |
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $35,170 |
| Animal Caretakers | $35,650 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $35,680 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $35,830 |
| Dishwashers | $35,950 |
| Automotive and Watercraft Service Attendants | $35,960 |
| Cashiers | $36,010 |
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 ($60,433 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.