Youngstown-Warren, OH Salaries

Local wages where BEA prices sit below the US average (RPP 87.4) - 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 Youngstown-Warren, OH moved from $42,330 in May 2024 to $43,800 in May 2025 (+3.5%).
  • Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
  • Youngstown-Warren, OH sits +0.4 pp near that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
F
Wage Scorecard
37/100
Youngstown-Warren, OH

Based on wage level, year-over-year wage growth, and regional-price-parity-adjusted purchasing power from BLS and BEA sources, not job availability, industry mix, or day-to-day livability.

Wage Level F
$43,800
All-occupation median annual wage (BLS OEWS)
Wage Growth C
+3.5%
Year-over-year change in median wage (BLS OEWS)
Real Purchasing Power D
$50,118
Median wage adjusted for regional price parity (RPP 87.4, BEA)

General and Operations Managers shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Youngstown-Warren, OH

General and Operations Managers publishes $80,050 here versus $105,770 nationally (-24.3%; 4,480metro-area jobs). Next is Registered Nurses at $78,680 locally versus $97,550 nationally (-19.3%).

  1. General and Operations Managers$80,050 in Youngstown-Warren, OH sits 24.3% below the national General and Operations Managers median of $105,770 (4,480 published local jobs).
  2. Registered Nurses$78,680 in Youngstown-Warren, OH sits 19.3% below the national Registered Nurses median of $97,550 (4,090 published local jobs).
  3. Retail Salespersons$29,080 in Youngstown-Warren, OH sits 17.9% below the national Retail Salespersons median of $35,410 (4,870 published local jobs).
  4. Customer Service Representatives$37,970 in Youngstown-Warren, OH sits 15.2% below the national Customer Service Representatives median of $44,770 (2,140 published local jobs).

General and Operations Managers and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Youngstown-Warren, OH; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.

BLS OEWS metro wage desk

MSA 49660 · Youngstown-Warren, OH $53K mean

MEAN-TRACE · RPP-QUIET · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-FULL

  • MEAN-TRACE #409/528
  • RPP-QUIET 87.4
  • OCC-MID 364 occs
  • TOP-LEAD Family Medicin… · $278K
  • EMP-MIX Physicians,…
  • TREND-INLINE +0.4 pp
  • PHOTO-FINISH Altoona, PA
  • BOOK-FULL 362 rows · May 2025

Read with Altoona, PA ($32 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 Youngstown-Warren, OH

Guayama, PR · lowest mean: $32KGuayama, PR · lowest mean$32KYoungstown-Warren, OH · this MSA: $53KYoungstown-Warren, OH · this…$53KAltoona, PA · near: $53KAltoona, PA · near$53KNorthwestern Pennsyl… · near: $53KNorthwestern Pennsyl… · near$53KJackson, MS · near: $53KJackson, MS · near$53KCentral Kentucky non… · near: $53KCentral Kentucky non… · 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
Youngstown-Warren, OH · this MSA $53K
Altoona, PA · near $53K
Northwestern Pennsyl… · near $53K
Jackson, MS · near $53K
Central Kentucky non… · near $53K
San Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · highest mean $119K

Where Youngstown-Warren, OH already employs the upper wage tier

Physicians, All Other and Sales Managers lead published employment inside Youngstown-Warren, OH's top-pay sample, order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.

  1. 1. Physicians, All Other 510 jobs · $265,000
  2. 2. Sales Managers 500 jobs · $122,110
  3. 3. Financial Managers 500 jobs · $119,240
  4. 4. Nurse Practitioners 400 jobs · $120,970
  5. 5. Industrial Production Managers 400 jobs · $105,100
  6. 6. Lawyers 400 jobs · $101,250
  7. 7. Pharmacists 360 jobs · $139,410
  8. 8. Software Developers 260 jobs · $107,990
  9. 9. Computer and Information Systems Managers 170 jobs · $125,760
  10. 10. Physician Assistants 150 jobs · $124,610
  11. 11. Chief Executives 150 jobs · $109,730
  12. 12. Human Resources Managers 140 jobs · $108,770
  13. 13. Marketing Managers 130 jobs · $114,560
  14. 14. General Internal Medicine Physicians 110 jobs · $163,590
  15. 15. Architectural and Engineering Managers 110 jobs · $139,240
  16. 16. Veterinarians 100 jobs · $106,770
  17. 17. Engineers, All Other 100 jobs · $102,560
  18. 18. Judges, Magistrate Judges, and Magistrates 80 jobs · $106,170

Occupations Tracked

364

with wage data

Published-Row Mean

$53,200

employment-weighted, 362 complete rows

Top Salary

$278,330

Family Medicine Physicians

Cost of Living

87.4

13% below US avg

Price-level adjustment: Dividing the derived published-row mean of $53,200 by the metro RPP gives $60,874 on a national-price basis. This is not an after-tax income or a personal cost-of-living result.

Top-pay occupations in Youngstown-Warren, 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 Physicians, All Other $265,000
2 Sales Managers $122,110
3 Financial Managers $119,240
4 Nurse Practitioners $120,970
5 Industrial Production Managers $105,100
6 Lawyers $101,250
7 Pharmacists $139,410
8 Software Developers $107,990
9 Computer and Information Systems Managers $125,760
10 Physician Assistants $124,610
11 Chief Executives $109,730
12 Human Resources Managers $108,770
13 Marketing Managers $114,560
14 General Internal Medicine Physicians $163,590
15 Architectural and Engineering Managers $139,240
16 Veterinarians $106,770
17 Engineers, All Other $102,560
18 Judges, Magistrate Judges, and Magistrates $106,170
19 Clinical and Counseling Psychologists $102,860
20 Purchasing Managers $124,310
21 Computer Network Architects $107,570
22 Dentists, General $168,820
23 Materials Engineers $105,400
24 Control and Valve Installers and Repairers, Except Mechanical Door $99,170
25 Family Medicine Physicians $278,330

Lowest Paying Jobs in Youngstown-Warren, OH

Other BLS Wage Areas in OH

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 OH. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($53,200 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 Youngstown-Warren, OH wage reading?
The employment-weighted published-row mean across 362 occupation rows is $53,200/year (BLS OEWS May 2025). BEA RPP 87.4 puts local prices 13% below the US average, so the same mean reads as $60,874 in national-price terms. Page lists 364 occupations with a published median, a different denominator. The top-tier median average of the 25 highest-paying rows is $130,772.
What is the highest paying job in Youngstown-Warren, OH?
The highest paying occupation in Youngstown-Warren, OH is Family Medicine Physicians with a median salary of $278,330/year. The second highest is Physicians, All Other at $265,000/year.
What jobs pay the least in Youngstown-Warren, OH?
The lowest paying occupation in Youngstown-Warren, OH is Amusement and Recreation Attendants with a median salary of $23,390/year according to BLS data.
Which federal tables feed Youngstown-Warren, 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.

What to do with this data

How to use Youngstown-Warren, OH wage figures in a real decision

  • Family Medicine Physicians leads published medians in Youngstown-Warren, OH at $278,330/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Family Medicine Physicians
  • The employment-weighted published-row mean of $53,200 adjusts to about $60,874 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 87.4. Salary vs cost of living
  • Compare this metropolitan statistical area against the statewide occupation table for OH before treating one geography as the other. State wage page

BLS OEWS estimates reflect the May 2025 reference period; small occupation-area cells can be suppressed, and figures are not employer offers.

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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