About WageViz
Free, transparent occupational salary data for the United States.
What we do
WageViz publishes median and percentile salary data for hundreds of occupations across every U.S. state. Every figure on this site comes from the official U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OES) program — no estimates are invented or extrapolated.
Each occupation page shows the national picture first, then breaks down wages state by state so you can compare pay across locations.
Data source and methodology
Data is derived from the BLS OES survey, an annual mail survey covering approximately 1.1 million establishments. The figures on this site reflect the most recent published reference period (May 2025).
- Median annual wage — the middle value: half of workers earn more, half earn less.
- Percentiles (10th/25th/75th/90th) — the wage level below which that percentage of workers falls; commonly used as entry-level (10th) and experienced (90th) proxies.
- Mean wage — the arithmetic average, which can be pulled upward by high earners.
- Employment — estimated number of workers in the occupation nationwide or in a state.
BLS suppresses some state-level figures to protect confidentiality or where the sample is too small; those cells are shown as unavailable.
Updates
BLS publishes new OES data each April. We refresh the entire site with the latest release, so figures on WageViz are always the most recent official numbers.
Direct source: bls.gov/oes (public domain, no copyright).