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: Personal Care & Service.

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 — Personal Care & Service

Rank	State	Median (P50) ▼	P10	P90	Employment
1	Washington	$43,660^[1]	$33,670	$76,170	61,250
2	Alaska	$38,820^[1]	$27,510	$65,190	6,810
3	Massachusetts	$38,210^[1]	$31,580	$62,850	78,900
4	District of Columbia	$38,120^[1]	$34,740	$61,510	11,420
5	Colorado	$37,520^[1]	$30,110	$64,760	69,630
6	Vermont	$37,170^[1]	$29,830	$59,270	5,090
7	California	$36,980^[1]	$32,720	$63,250	378,650
8	Oregon	$36,980^[1]	$31,250	$56,740	52,960
9	Hawaii	$36,380^[1]	$26,070	$61,020	17,010
10	New York	$36,250^[1]	$30,710	$64,700	189,310
11	Minnesota	$35,510^[1]	$24,640	$59,120	59,420
12	Maine	$35,380^[1]	$29,520	$53,460	12,980
13	Rhode Island	$35,310^[1]	$28,190	$57,990	12,140
14	Arizona	$35,270^[1]	$29,330	$58,940	60,220
15	Connecticut	$34,990^[1]	$29,780	$64,700	36,560
16	New Jersey	$34,880^[1]	$29,390	$64,930	106,510
17	Illinois	$34,730^[1]	$27,780	$60,780	113,420
18	Maryland	$34,690^[1]	$28,430	$58,700	57,990
19	New Hampshire	$34,280^[1]	$22,290	$56,270	14,580
20	Virginia	$33,720^[1]	$24,960	$57,910	83,360
21	Wisconsin	$33,690^[1]	$21,750	$56,160	47,100
22	Utah	$33,110^[1]	$21,820	$58,690	35,930
23	Delaware	$31,200^[1]	$24,440	$59,660	10,780
24	Montana	$31,160^[1]	$21,560	$49,230	11,450
25	Michigan	$30,940^[1]	$23,520	$52,890	81,200
26	Idaho	$30,410^[1]	$20,990	$50,430	17,290
27	Pennsylvania	$30,340^[1]	$21,310	$56,510	124,450
28	Florida	$30,330^[1]	$23,920	$54,410	207,200
29	Wyoming	$30,300^[1]	$21,780	$50,540	5,430
30	South Dakota	$30,220^[1]	$23,920	$46,640	11,310
31	New Mexico	$30,060^[1]	$25,240	$49,730	13,130
32	North Carolina	$30,010^[1]	$21,050	$56,430	82,520
33	North Dakota	$30,010^[1]	$22,680	$50,030	12,760
34	Indiana	$29,840^[1]	$21,170	$53,250	50,520
35	Missouri	$29,730^[1]	$24,960	$48,960	56,100
36	Ohio	$29,580^[1]	$22,470	$54,230	94,600
37	Nebraska	$29,290^[1]	$22,820	$46,070	24,300
38	Tennessee	$29,200^[1]	$20,820	$48,160	55,760
39	Iowa	$29,140^[1]	$21,190	$49,120	28,340
40	South Carolina	$29,120^[1]	$19,930	$49,170	46,330
41	Texas	$28,870^[1]	$20,810	$51,820	226,180
42	Kentucky	$28,780^[1]	$20,720	$48,140	38,890
43	Georgia	$28,760^[1]	$21,190	$50,880	84,700
44	Kansas	$28,470^[1]	$20,150	$48,650	30,160
45	Arkansas	$28,340^[1]	$23,640	$45,040	19,480
46	Nevada	$28,250^[1]	$21,640	$62,710	59,020
47	West Virginia	$28,180^[1]	$20,600	$52,730	11,100
48	Oklahoma	$27,280^[1]	$19,790	$49,730	31,760
49	Alabama	$27,200^[1]	$18,840	$47,370	33,950
50	Louisiana	$26,610^[1]	$18,820	$48,940	39,630
51	Mississippi	$26,030^[1]	$18,150	$60,820	21,040

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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