Yuma, AZ Salaries
Largest OEWS employment footprints with published wages - BLS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Yuma, AZ moved from $42,690 in May 2024 to $44,170 in May 2025 (+3.5%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Yuma, AZ sits +0.4 pp near that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Yuma, AZ
Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse publishes $34,610 here versus $35,660 nationally (-2.9%; 4,420metro-area jobs).
- Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse$34,610 in Yuma, AZ sits 2.9% below the national Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse median of $35,660 (4,420 published local jobs).
Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Yuma, AZ; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 49740 · Yuma, AZ $54K mean
MEAN-LOW · RPP-LOW · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST
- MEAN-LOW #375/528
- RPP-LOW 92.7
- OCC-MID 240 occs
- TOP-LEAD Dentists, Gene… · $165K
- EMP-MIX Managers, Al…
- TREND-INLINE +0.4 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH North Florida no…
- BOOK-MOST 239 rows · May 2025
Read with North Florida nonmetropolitan area ($38 on published-row mean) · Fastest-growing occupations
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 Yuma, AZ
Largest published OEWS footprints in Yuma, AZ
Managers, All Other and Software Developers lead published employment inside Yuma, AZ's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Managers, All Other 340 jobs · $122,930
- 2. Software Developers 230 jobs · $121,610
- 3. Medical and Health Services Managers 220 jobs · $118,200
- 4. Sales Managers 190 jobs · $124,500
- 5. Financial Managers 180 jobs · $122,730
- 6. Lawyers 140 jobs · $126,730
- 7. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 130 jobs · $100,290
- 8. First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives 120 jobs · $99,370
- 9. Physical Therapists 120 jobs · $98,790
- 10. Nurse Practitioners 110 jobs · $129,770
- 11. Pharmacists 100 jobs · $161,630
- 12. Computer and Information Systems Managers 100 jobs · $123,620
- 13. Engineers, All Other 100 jobs · $108,780
- 14. Construction Managers 100 jobs · $99,740
- 15. Chief Executives 80 jobs · $141,100
- 16. Industrial Production Managers 70 jobs · $101,350
- 17. Dentists, General 60 jobs · $164,680
- 18. Physicians, All Other 60 jobs · $162,020
Occupations Tracked
240
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$54,341
employment-weighted, 239 complete rows
Top Salary
$164,680
Dentists, General
Cost of Living
92.7
7% below US avg
Top-pay occupations in Yuma, AZ, 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 | Managers, All Other | $122,930 |
| 2 | Software Developers | $121,610 |
| 3 | Medical and Health Services Managers | $118,200 |
| 4 | Sales Managers | $124,500 |
| 5 | Financial Managers | $122,730 |
| 6 | Lawyers | $126,730 |
| 7 | Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary | $100,290 |
| 8 | First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives | $99,370 |
| 9 | Physical Therapists | $98,790 |
| 10 | Nurse Practitioners | $129,770 |
| 11 | Pharmacists | $161,630 |
| 12 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $123,620 |
| 13 | Engineers, All Other | $108,780 |
| 14 | Construction Managers | $99,740 |
| 15 | Chief Executives | $141,100 |
| 16 | Industrial Production Managers | $101,350 |
| 17 | Dentists, General | $164,680 |
| 18 | Physicians, All Other | $162,020 |
| 19 | Human Resources Managers | $128,990 |
| 20 | Architectural and Engineering Managers | $151,120 |
| 21 | Marketing Managers | $127,570 |
| 22 | Education Administrators, Postsecondary | $100,180 |
| 23 | Occupational Therapists | $99,010 |
| 24 | Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers | $98,770 |
| 25 | Physician Assistants | $133,290 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in Yuma, AZ
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Packers and Packagers, Hand | $30,580 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $30,580 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $30,580 |
| Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service Workers | $30,580 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $30,970 |
| Parking Attendants | $31,530 |
| Dishwashers | $31,560 |
| Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners | $31,600 |
| Substitute Teachers, Short-Term | $31,740 |
| Hotel, Motel, and Resort Desk Clerks | $31,750 |
Other BLS Wage Areas in AZ
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 AZ. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($54,341 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.