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: Transportation & Material Moving.

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 — Transportation & Material Moving

Rank	State	Median (P50) ▼	P10	P90	Employment
1	Alaska	$49,180^[1]	$33,140	$105,600	28,840
2	Washington	$47,150^[1]	$35,090	$77,730	285,510
3	North Dakota	$46,920^[1]	$30,840	$78,660	42,740
4	New York	$45,680^[1]	$33,110	$81,750	643,220
5	Minnesota	$45,440^[1]	$30,950	$71,050	225,820
6	District of Columbia	$45,230^[1]	$34,490	$74,090	16,750
7	Delaware	$44,890^[1]	$28,870	$62,090	41,220
8	Wyoming	$44,820^[1]	$28,800	$77,950	24,610
9	Colorado	$44,280^[1]	$34,230	$72,480	210,440
10	California	$44,200^[1]	$34,400	$69,400	1,554,090
11	Hawaii	$44,040^[1]	$30,010	$87,610	50,250
12	Massachusetts	$43,380^[1]	$33,400	$68,560	231,240
13	Oregon	$43,310^[1]	$31,990	$65,980	172,560
14	Iowa	$43,260^[1]	$28,920	$63,640	148,350
15	Montana	$42,240^[1]	$28,150	$69,620	38,000
16	Wisconsin	$42,170^[1]	$27,810	$63,720	276,680
17	Pennsylvania	$41,600^[1]	$28,350	$63,790	593,480
18	Maryland	$41,510^[1]	$30,160	$68,010	212,240
19	New Jersey	$41,450^[1]	$30,230	$68,970	475,040
20	Nebraska	$41,170^[1]	$28,830	$76,040	92,240
21	Kansas	$41,150^[1]	$28,800	$64,290	133,000
22	Utah	$41,070^[1]	$29,370	$67,160	134,820
23	Kentucky	$40,670^[1]	$27,670	$64,320	233,730
24	Virginia	$40,600^[1]	$28,400	$65,880	309,810
25	Vermont	$40,580^[1]	$30,160	$60,950	19,860
26	Arizona	$40,280^[1]	$31,030	$62,350	264,420
27	Illinois	$40,180^[1]	$30,310	$72,990	635,450
28	Maine	$40,050^[1]	$30,330	$61,330	47,990
29	Indiana	$39,880^[1]	$28,950	$64,500	370,870
30	New Hampshire	$39,430^[1]	$28,310	$61,540	53,680
31	Connecticut	$39,240^[1]	$31,040	$64,260	131,240
32	Rhode Island	$39,240^[1]	$28,390	$63,120	32,690
33	Michigan	$39,020^[1]	$29,120	$62,880	368,990
34	Ohio	$38,970^[1]	$28,350	$63,560	546,420
35	Idaho	$38,890^[1]	$29,010	$63,130	70,210
36	Georgia	$38,660^[1]	$27,620	$68,670	534,550
37	Missouri	$38,640^[1]	$28,270	$63,570	259,180
38	Texas	$38,550^[1]	$26,800	$66,680	1,271,220
39	Nevada	$38,530^[1]	$28,400	$66,170	141,720
40	New Mexico	$38,440^[1]	$27,180	$61,710	62,090
41	South Dakota	$38,030^[1]	$27,320	$60,940	37,360
42	Tennessee	$37,780^[1]	$28,440	$64,140	371,560
43	Florida	$36,950^[1]	$27,300	$63,660	817,610
44	South Carolina	$36,920^[1]	$25,500	$60,130	208,150
45	Arkansas	$36,730^[1]	$27,500	$65,200	141,240
46	Louisiana	$36,720^[1]	$23,090	$71,580	175,470
47	North Carolina	$36,530^[1]	$25,740	$60,770	468,220
48	Alabama	$36,420^[1]	$22,290	$61,490	211,570
49	Mississippi	$36,260^[1]	$23,310	$61,780	126,760
50	Oklahoma	$36,240^[1]	$25,220	$62,310	152,620
51	West Virginia	$35,500^[1]	$23,400	$61,450	56,980

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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