Salary by State and Occupation (2023)

BLS OEWS wage distributions for every U.S. state, sliced by 2-digit SOC occupational major group. Currently showing: Management.

Written by Jere SalmistoReviewed by CalcFi EditorialLast reviewed 2026-05-21Methodology

The Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics^[1]program surveys ~200,000 establishments semi-annually and publishes state-level wage percentiles (P10, P25, P50, P75, P90) plus employment counts. Occupational groupings use the 2018 Standard Occupational Classification^[2] — this page exposes the 20 major (2-digit) groups. Pick one below.

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11 · Management 13 · Business & Financial Ops 15 · Computer & Mathematical 17 · Architecture & Engineering 19 · Life, Physical & Social Sciences 21 · Community & Social Service

Wage by State — Management

Rank	State	Median (P50) ▼	P10	P90	Employment
1	District of Columbia	$161,300^[1]	$86,380	$343,230	101,680
2	New Jersey	$160,410^[1]	$81,680	$264,380	297,540
3	New York	$152,520^[1]	$67,410	$289,890	611,690
4	Washington	$142,380^[1]	$75,150	$264,380	193,830
5	Delaware	$140,050^[1]	$68,740	$236,550	22,890
6	Colorado	$137,170^[1]	$74,050	$243,510	156,700
7	Massachusetts	$136,430^[1]	$66,360	$343,230	345,350
8	California	$135,840^[1]	$63,300	$329,310	1,308,800
9	Connecticut	$132,550^[1]	$65,730	$266,700	148,160
10	Virginia	$132,380^[1]	$62,420	$236,550	245,040
11	Maryland	$124,990^[1]	$59,810	$221,820	244,320
12	Rhode Island	$124,730^[1]	$64,090	$227,730	23,210
13	New Hampshire	$120,650^[1]	$63,080	$230,740	48,580
14	Minnesota	$117,260^[1]	$55,440	$219,870	201,710
15	Illinois	$117,130^[1]	$55,150	$223,530	535,650
16	Wisconsin	$115,820^[1]	$60,300	$215,910	134,700
17	Pennsylvania	$111,290^[1]	$57,700	$217,510	403,290
18	Georgia	$110,870^[1]	$51,400	$224,010	304,430
19	North Carolina	$110,700^[1]	$57,450	$221,230	291,430
20	Alaska	$108,680^[1]	$60,370	$196,260	23,750
21	Oregon	$106,730^[1]	$54,550	$209,190	139,440
22	Hawaii	$106,520^[1]	$59,200	$189,840	39,790
23	Michigan	$106,250^[1]	$52,110	$208,260	277,450
24	Texas	$105,170^[1]	$48,350	$219,160	1,124,950
25	South Dakota	$104,310^[1]	$54,510	$206,670	15,720
26	Florida	$104,170^[1]	$50,360	$221,240	601,150
27	Kansas	$102,890^[1]	$50,100	$206,370	72,160
28	Arizona	$102,560^[1]	$49,910	$210,050	232,000
29	Tennessee	$102,180^[1]	$48,880	$209,350	218,500
30	New Mexico	$101,770^[1]	$53,790	$189,990	46,340
31	Utah	$101,510^[1]	$46,220	$208,790	130,640
32	Indiana	$100,710^[1]	$50,510	$198,490	161,640
33	Nebraska	$100,710^[1]	$49,310	$187,220	72,910
34	Ohio	$100,640^[1]	$47,530	$206,270	364,650
35	South Carolina	$100,520^[1]	$51,640	$198,700	131,290
36	Maine	$99,790^[1]	$50,970	$192,500	43,000
37	Alabama	$99,740^[1]	$50,710	$198,520	105,580
38	Louisiana	$98,200^[1]	$51,020	$186,800	114,790
39	North Dakota	$97,760^[1]	$49,220	$179,480	24,400
40	Vermont	$97,030^[1]	$57,050	$186,610	23,490
41	Iowa	$95,090^[1]	$46,320	$176,580	99,710
42	Wyoming	$94,890^[1]	$47,230	$180,260	14,830
43	Montana	$93,850^[1]	$45,640	$175,090	28,350
44	Nevada	$93,670^[1]	$45,160	$205,850	115,160
45	Oklahoma	$93,080^[1]	$43,890	$188,450	93,310
46	Missouri	$92,160^[1]	$42,940	$190,990	195,600
47	Kentucky	$91,230^[1]	$43,870	$176,720	116,200
48	West Virginia	$83,500^[1]	$42,700	$174,350	40,150
49	Idaho	$82,260^[1]	$39,610	$175,090	62,970
50	Mississippi	$80,930^[1]	$41,460	$164,800	57,060
51	Arkansas	$80,570^[1]	$37,830	$172,100	89,800

P10 / P50 / P90 are annual wage percentiles from BLS OEWS. Employment is the state-level headcount for the SOC major group at the OEWS publication date. A few small-employment cells may be suppressed by BLS for confidentiality.

How to Read OEWS

Why Percentiles, Not Averages

OEWS reports wage percentiles because the wage distribution for most occupational groups is right-skewed — a handful of high earners pull the arithmetic mean well above the median. P50 is the experience the median worker actually has; P10 is the bottom decile; P90 is the top decile (but not the very top, which BLS caps at $240k).

Cross-Check With Cost of Living

A $110k Computer & Mathematical median in San Francisco is not the same as a $110k median in Austin — the BEA housing RPP is ~2× higher on the coast. Always pair OEWS with BEA RPP before making a relocation decision.

Major-Group vs Detailed SOC

This page uses 2-digit SOC major groups (e.g., 15-0000“Computer and Mathematical”). BLS also publishes the full 6-digit detailed SOC (e.g., 15-1252Software Developers) with narrower wage bands — those sit in the state's detailed OEWS table, which CalcFi's pSEO salary pages consume separately.

How we compute this — methodology

This page calls listStateSalary()from CalcFi's data repository. Each StateSalaryContext row has a record-level source: SourceRef (all wage fields come from the same OEWS release), plus a nested occupations[] array keyed by SOC 2-digit code. The query-string ?soc= filters to one row per state for the chosen occupational group.

Refresh cadence:BLS publishes OEWS state tables annually in May (for the previous May survey period). That's the slowest of CalcFi's data feeds — expect a one-year lag. The retrievedAt date shown above reflects the last ETL fetch, not the vintage year itself (shown in the highlights tile).

Known limits:some small employment cells are suppressed by BLS (marked “—”). OEWS covers non-farm wage and salary workers and excludes the self-employed — so Schedule-C and 1099 income isn't in these numbers.

Sources

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics — Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) — OEWS state-level wage estimates, May 2023 vintage; P10 / P50 / P90 annual wages. www.bls.gov/oes/. Retrieved 2026-05-21. License: Public domain (U.S. federal government).
U.S. Office of Management and Budget — Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) — 2018 SOC system — 2-digit major groups used throughout this page. www.bls.gov/soc/. Retrieved 2026-05-21.

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