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.

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.

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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