OEWS Ranked
Best Paying Jobs in the United States
These are the highest-paid occupations in the federal OEWS survey — employer-reported wages, not job-board estimates. Rankings use national mean annual wage; open any row for state-level percentiles, real (RPP-adjusted) pay, and outlook.
National ranking
Click any occupation for state-level salaries, percentiles, and real (cost-of-living adjusted) pay.
Methodology
Ranked by national annual mean wage from the latest BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics release. Equity and bonus compensation are largely excluded from OEWS figures, so tech and finance totals can understate total pay.
Full documentation: Wage Atlas methodology and data sources.