Highest Paying Jobs in Ohio

Top 100 occupations ranked by median annual salary, Bureau of Labor Statistics, May 2025

Highest Salary

$554,220

Surgeons, All Other

Top 25 Average

$282,109

median salary

$100K+ Jobs

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Occupations

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This ranking surfaces the 100 highest-paying occupations in Ohio by BLS OEWS state median salary, drawn from the May 2025 release. At the top, Surgeons, All Other pays a state median of $554,220, +34% above the national median of $414,010 for the same role. Of the 100 tracked positions, 90 pay above $100,000 per year in Ohio - a useful threshold for separating specialist professional roles from mid-tier employment. The top-10 average sits at $398,996, giving a sense of what elite specialists inside this state actually clear.

The "Difference" column compares each state median to the corresponding national median for the same SOC code, making pay premiums and discounts immediately visible. In this list, 24 of 100 occupations pay above the national median in Ohio, which usually signals one of three things: a local concentration of specialized employers (finance hubs, tech clusters, research universities, federal agencies), a cost-of-living adjustment baked into state-wide wage scales, or scarce in-state talent supply bidding up competitive roles. Occupations paying below the national median are not necessarily bad news, they often reflect lower cost of living in the state or industries where Ohio is not a concentrated employer.

Rankings like this show ceiling-potential by specialty, but they don't tell you the odds of landing one of those roles. Pair this table with the employment column (how many workers the state actually employs in each occupation) and the growth projections on each occupation's national page to see whether the field is expanding or contracting. BLS wages exclude benefits, bonuses, and overtime, especially distorting for top-paying roles where equity and performance compensation can represent 30-50% of total pay. Use this leaderboard to shortlist careers worth exploring in Ohio, then drill into each row's linked profile to check percentile spread, typical education, metro-level variation, and whether projected openings match your timeline.

#	Occupation	State Median	National	Difference	Employment
1	Surgeons, All Other Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$554,220	$414,010	+34% above	980
2	Cardiologists Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$504,260	$496,010	+2% above	760
3	Anesthesiologists Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$490,530	$391,490	+25% above	780
4	Pediatric Surgeons Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$488,160	$559,030	13% below	N/A
5	Emergency Medicine Physicians Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$377,480	$335,550	+12% above	1,170
6	Dermatologists Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$373,640	$328,730	+14% above	N/A
7	Orthopedic Surgeons, Except Pediatric Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$323,480	$358,550	10% below	500
8	Physicians, Pathologists Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$309,480	$312,400	1% below	600
9	Physicians, All Other Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$297,440	$265,930	+12% above	21,160
10	Ophthalmologists, Except Pediatric Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$271,270	$300,080	10% below	150
11	Radiologists Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$260,000	$420,860	38% below	770
12	General Internal Medicine Physicians Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$249,990	$256,560	3% below	1,540
13	Psychiatrists Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$244,990	$281,870	13% below	690
14	Nurse Anesthetists Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$231,810	$236,590	2% below	2,300
15	Family Medicine Physicians Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$223,700	$244,180	8% below	1,490
16	Orthodontists Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$219,300	$289,140	24% below	250
17	Pediatricians, General Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$217,970	$210,040	+4% above	2,110
18	Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers Transportation and Material Moving Occupations	$204,170	$232,140	12% below	1,550
19	Dentists, All Other Specialists Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$192,050	$224,990	15% below	160
20	Obstetricians and Gynecologists Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$181,520	$292,910	38% below	970
21	Chief Executives Management Occupations	$176,440	$213,990	18% below	4,470
22	Dentists, General Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$167,410	$170,950	2% below	2,790
23	Architectural and Engineering Managers Management Occupations	$166,870	$171,270	3% below	9,690
24	Computer and Information Systems Managers Management Occupations	$163,640	$175,140	7% below	19,500
25	Physicists Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations	$162,900	$172,250	5% below	630
26	Medical Dosimetrists Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$150,900	$147,470	+2% above	N/A
27	Commercial Pilots Transportation and Material Moving Occupations	$150,330	$123,220	+22% above	2,680
28	Compensation and Benefits Managers Management Occupations	$141,920	$149,230	5% below	460
29	Financial Managers Management Occupations	$140,870	$166,570	15% below	27,360
30	Aerospace Engineers Architecture and Engineering Occupations	$138,440	$134,960	+3% above	3,710
31	Natural Sciences Managers Management Occupations	$137,170	$167,220	18% below	1,560
32	Pharmacists Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$137,020	$140,910	3% below	12,790
33	Sales Managers Management Occupations	$135,510	$148,270	9% below	22,840
34	Computer and Information Research Scientists Computer and Mathematical Occupations	$135,510	$140,300	3% below	280
35	Optometrists Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$134,850	$136,570	1% below	1,300
36	Purchasing Managers Management Occupations	$134,580	$148,080	9% below	3,490
37	Database Architects Computer and Mathematical Occupations	$132,910	$139,500	5% below	1,820
38	Marketing Managers Management Occupations	$132,330	$166,790	21% below	10,620
39	Physician Assistants Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$132,090	$135,880	3% below	4,900
40	Psychologists, All Other Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations	$132,060	$110,840	+19% above	410
41	Computer Network Architects Computer and Mathematical Occupations	$131,070	$134,050	2% below	5,150
42	Lawyers Legal Occupations	$131,020	$159,670	18% below	19,950
43	Human Resources Managers Management Occupations	$130,480	$149,280	13% below	8,040
44	Managers, All Other Management Occupations	$129,940	$141,900	8% below	7,360
45	Health and Safety Engineers, Except Mining Safety Engineers and Inspectors Architecture and Engineering Occupations	$129,560	$115,160	+13% above	650
46	Podiatrists Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$129,380	$160,300	19% below	350
47	Training and Development Managers Management Occupations	$128,440	$133,000	3% below	990
48	Nurse Midwives Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$127,730	$134,040	5% below	180
49	Veterinarians Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$125,060	$130,100	4% below	3,430
50	Nurse Practitioners Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$124,870	$132,300	6% below	15,400
51	Engineers, All Other Architecture and Engineering Occupations	$120,470	$122,930	2% below	7,000
52	Economists Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations	$120,000	$124,720	4% below	140
53	Political Scientists Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations	$119,370	$142,080	16% below	40
54	Agricultural Engineers Architecture and Engineering Occupations	$119,250	$98,590	+21% above	60
55	Electronics Engineers, Except Computer Architecture and Engineering Occupations	$118,830	$130,220	9% below	3,240
56	Public Relations Managers Management Occupations	$118,670	$146,910	19% below	1,400
57	Computer Hardware Engineers Architecture and Engineering Occupations	$118,160	$161,740	27% below	580
58	Software Developers Computer and Mathematical Occupations	$114,090	$135,980	16% below	44,790
59	Environmental Engineers Architecture and Engineering Occupations	$113,180	$107,110	+6% above	730
60	Bioengineers and Biomedical Engineers Architecture and Engineering Occupations	$111,550	$109,370	+2% above	700
61	Chemical Engineers Architecture and Engineering Occupations	$111,200	$125,040	11% below	1,030
62	Actuaries Computer and Mathematical Occupations	$110,980	$130,000	15% below	1,090
63	Information Security Analysts Computer and Mathematical Occupations	$110,480	$129,180	14% below	6,010
64	Computer Occupations, All Other Computer and Mathematical Occupations	$109,780	$116,580	6% below	6,150
65	Industrial Production Managers Management Occupations	$109,340	$126,060	13% below	14,290
66	Materials Scientists Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations	$108,830	$117,790	8% below	450
67	Physical Scientists, All Other Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations	$108,790	$122,570	11% below	430
68	Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products Sales and Related Occupations	$108,370	$104,920	+3% above	9,870
69	Materials Engineers Architecture and Engineering Occupations	$106,510	$112,860	6% below	1,790
70	Medical and Health Services Managers Management Occupations	$106,140	$123,860	14% below	24,390
71	Economics Teachers, Postsecondary Educational Instruction and Library Occupations	$105,930	$123,920	15% below	410
72	Petroleum Pump System Operators, Refinery Operators, and Gaugers Production Occupations	$105,150	$96,710	+9% above	800
73	Elevator and Escalator Installers and Repairers Construction and Extraction Occupations	$105,020	$109,910	4% below	690
74	Power Plant Operators Production Occupations	$104,160	$102,040	+2% above	730
75	Operations Research Analysts Computer and Mathematical Occupations	$103,620	$88,940	+17% above	2,600
76	Physical Therapists Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$103,050	$102,760	same as	10,280
77	Data Scientists Computer and Mathematical Occupations	$102,630	$120,230	15% below	6,100
78	Engineering Teachers, Postsecondary Educational Instruction and Library Occupations	$102,410	$109,270	6% below	1,260
79	Computer Systems Analysts Computer and Mathematical Occupations	$102,320	$105,850	3% below	19,190
80	Advertising and Promotions Managers Management Occupations	$102,110	$133,660	24% below	240
81	Construction Managers Management Occupations	$101,980	$114,990	11% below	16,130
82	Healthcare Diagnosing or Treating Practitioners, All Other Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$101,710	$115,210	12% below	880
83	Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers Management Occupations	$101,550	$107,230	5% below	9,480
84	Administrative Services Managers Management Occupations	$101,500	$114,130	11% below	7,980
85	Fundraising Managers Management Occupations	$101,470	$125,470	19% below	1,630
86	Clinical and Counseling Psychologists Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations	$101,190	$100,580	+1% above	2,080
87	Genetic Counselors Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$100,670	$100,040	+1% above	120
88	Electrical Engineers Architecture and Engineering Occupations	$100,620	$120,630	17% below	6,360
89	Power Distributors and Dispatchers Production Occupations	$100,320	$106,730	6% below	360
90	Industrial Engineers Architecture and Engineering Occupations	$100,060	$102,440	2% below	23,480
91	Gambling Managers Management Occupations	$99,650	$93,220	+7% above	110
92	Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary Management Occupations	$99,590	$105,870	6% below	12,480
93	Funeral Home Managers Management Occupations	$99,440	$78,790	+26% above	420
94	Occupational Therapists Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$99,390	$100,330	1% below	6,760
95	Petroleum Engineers Architecture and Engineering Occupations	$99,260	$144,910	32% below	200
96	Mechanical Engineers Architecture and Engineering Occupations	$99,100	$104,110	5% below	14,390
97	Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Powerhouse, Substation, and Relay Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations	$98,700	$103,020	4% below	1,120
98	Financial Risk Specialists Business and Financial Operations Occupations	$98,650	$117,330	16% below	2,110
99	Radiation Therapists Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$98,650	$105,310	6% below	690
100	Social Scientists and Related Workers, All Other Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations	$98,630	$101,110	2% below	1,520

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About This Data

All salary data comes from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) survey, May 2025. State-level data reflects wages for workers employed in Ohio. The "Difference" column shows how Ohio pay compares to the national median for that occupation.

Every figure on WageDex is rendered directly from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data, no number is typed in by an editor. These figures are computed directly from BLS OEWS state-level wage data. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2025.

Compiled by WageDex Editorial, Occupational Wages Editorial Team · May 15, 2026

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