Salaries by job
Updated
Median pay for 825 US occupations from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (May 2025), with pay by state and what you keep after 2026 taxes.
Most common jobs
- Home Health and Personal Care Aide: $35,800
- Retail Salesperson: $35,410
- Fast Food and Counter Worker: $31,200
- General and Operations Manager: $105,770
- Registered Nurse: $97,550
- Cashier: $32,880
- Laborer and Freight: $40,240
- Stocker and Order Filler: $37,330
- Customer Service Representative: $44,770
- Office Clerk: $45,010
- Waiter and Waitress: $35,230
- Janitor and Cleaner: $36,840
- Truck Driver: $58,640
- Secretary and Administrative Assistant: $47,540
- Software Engineer: $135,980
- Maintenance and Repair Worker: $49,590
- Accountant: $83,680
- CNA: $42,260
- First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Worker: $69,500
- Teaching Assistant: $36,780
- Cook: $37,390
- Miscellaneous Assembler and Fabricator: $44,650
- Elementary Teacher: $63,970
- Bookkeeping: $50,670
- Security Guard: $38,020
Highest-paying jobs
- Pediatric Surgeon: $559,030
- Cardiologist: $496,010
- Radiologist: $420,860
- Surgeon: $414,010
- Anesthesiologist: $391,490
- Orthopedic Surgeon: $358,550
- Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon: $352,220
- Emergency Medicine Physician: $335,550
- Dermatologist: $328,730
- Physician: $312,400
- Prosthodontist: $311,180
- Ophthalmologist: $300,080
- Obstetrician and Gynecologist: $292,910
- Orthodontist: $289,140
- Psychiatrist: $281,870
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- Architecture and Engineering (36 jobs)
- Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media (36 jobs)
- Building and Grounds Cleaning and Maintenance (10 jobs)
- Business and Financial Operations (32 jobs)
- Community and Social Service (17 jobs)
- Computer and Mathematical (21 jobs)
- Construction and Extraction (60 jobs)
- Educational Instruction and Library (64 jobs)
- Farming, Fishing, and Forestry (13 jobs)
- Food Preparation and Serving Related (17 jobs)
- Healthcare Practitioners and Technical (71 jobs)
- Healthcare Support (17 jobs)
- Installation, Maintenance, and Repair (51 jobs)
- Legal (8 jobs)
- Life, Physical, and Social Science (48 jobs)
- Management (37 jobs)
- Office and Administrative Support (54 jobs)
- Personal Care and Service (32 jobs)
- Production (105 jobs)
- Protective Service (24 jobs)
- Sales and Related (22 jobs)
- Transportation and Material Moving (50 jobs)