Annual median wage
The observed, reported, measured, or estimated annual median wage for a defined geographic area or cohort, on the basis and date stated by the source.
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2 sourcesCommercial subscription application and licensed extract product for occupation- and geography-pinned compensation benchmarks, including pay by years of directly related experience, responsibility level, and one-year job-family salary growth for a selected market.
Annual OEWS release files provide employment and straight-time gross hourly and annual wage estimates by occupation for national, state, metropolitan/nonmetropolitan, and national-industry cohorts. BLS publishes the current May 2025 release, annual archives, coordinated OE text files and mapping dictionaries, and Public Data API delivery. Historical editions provide level observations, not an emitted growth rate; comparability requires release, geography, SOC/NAICS vintage, method, suppression, and pooled-sample controls.
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