About StateSalary

Federal salary data, made readable.

What this site is

StateSalary is a reference for U.S. wage data at the state level. It reorganises publicly released figures from three federal agencies — the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Bureau of Economic Analysis, and the Census Bureau — into one place, without the PDF downloads and cross-table lookups.

Every number on the site is traceable to a named government release. We do not run surveys, scrape job boards, or publish self-reported salaries.

What the data covers

• Mean and median annual wages for all occupations combined, by state (OEWS May 2024).
• Wage figures for 20 common occupations in each state, where reported.
• Regional Price Parities — BEA’s index of state-level price levels relative to the national average (2024).
• Median household income by state (ACS 1-year, 2024).
• Cost-of-living adjusted wages, computed by dividing nominal pay by the state’s RPP.

What this site is not

StateSalary is not a job board, salary negotiation service, or career advice publication. It does not display user-submitted salaries. It does not rank “best states to work in” — that depends on your job, your household, and your tax situation, none of which federal wage tables can answer.

Updates

OEWS releases annually each spring. BEA RPPs release annually in winter. ACS 1-year estimates release each September. Pages are regenerated after each release. The current vintage of every dataset is noted in the footer of each profile page.

Contact

General enquiries: contact@statesalary.com
Data corrections: data@statesalary.com