U.S. salary data by occupation
Median pay, the full pay ladder and figures for all 54 states and territories, for every occupation we cover. Every wage figure traces back to the BLS release it came from; occupation names and education ratings come from O*NET.
| Occupation | U.S. median | Middle 50% | Employed | Typical education |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Registered Nurses | $97,550 | $80,330 – $112,350 | 3,379,720(BLS RSE 0.3%) | Bachelor's |
| Software Developers | $135,980 | $105,210 – $171,980 | 1,687,890(BLS RSE 0.6%) | Bachelor's |
| Accountants and Auditors | $83,680 | $67,020 – $109,810 | 1,449,500(BLS RSE 0.5%) | Bachelor's |
| Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education | $63,970 | $57,710 – $81,450 | 1,388,390(BLS RSE 0.8%) | Bachelor's |
| Electricians | $63,190 | $49,430 – $83,940 | 757,220(BLS RSE 0.8%) | Vocational certificate |
| Dental Hygienists | $98,100 | $83,570 – $108,480 | 222,740(BLS RSE 1.6%) | Associate's (2-year) |
| Information Security Analysts | $129,180 | $97,810 – $163,500 | 190,650(BLS RSE 2.0%) | Bachelor's |
Rows are ordered by how many people work in the occupation, not by pay.
Every row also carries a rated education requirement from O*NET Database 31.0 (CC BY 4.0, retrieved 2026-09-15). O*NET rates what the job requires — it is not a survey of what the people now doing the job studied.
BLS OES May 2025 · retrieved 2026-09-15
The figure in brackets after each employment count is the BLS relative standard error for that estimate: a measure of how reliable it is. Our OES data carries this measure for two figures only — national employment and the mean wage — so the median and the middle-50% figures in this table have none, and the state-level relative standard errors are not downloaded.
This is BLS's own definition: “The relative standard error (RSE) is a measure of the reliability of a survey statistic. The smaller the relative standard error, the more precise the estimate.”
We are not licensed career counselors. The figures on this page are occupation-level statistics published by the U.S. government: they describe what people in this job earn, not what any one person would earn.