Find wage percentile data
A wage percentile only makes sense for a specific occupation, location, and BLS release. Find the matching official table in three steps.
Start with the official OEWS tables
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1. Match the occupation
Choose the occupation whose duties best match the job. A statewide all-worker figure is not a personal salary percentile.
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2. Match the area and release
Select the national, state, or metropolitan table and note the release year shown by BLS.
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3. Read the percentile columns
Compare your annual wage with the 10th, 25th, median, 75th, and 90th-percentile annual wage columns.
How it works
Why this links out instead of estimating a percentile
PlainLabor currently publishes JOLTS labor-market data, not a reproducible OEWS wage-percentile dataset. An estimate made from a few static state figures would omit the occupation, area, and release details that determine the official comparison. This page therefore links directly to the relevant BLS source rather than generating an unsupported result.
OEWS is a separate BLS program from the JOLTS data used elsewhere on PlainLabor. The BLS OEWS program page explains its coverage and release materials.
Disclaimer: BLS wage estimates describe survey-based occupational wage distributions; they are not personalized financial or career advice. For a decision about your compensation or career, consider the specific role, location, benefits, experience, and current job market.
Every figure on PlainLabor is rendered from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS); no number is typed in by an editor. This guide points to official BLS OEWS tables; PlainLabor does not invent a local wage-percentile calculator. See our editorial standards and corrections policy, methodology, or report a data error. Data current as of 2026-08-17. JOLTS figures are employer-survey openings and turnover rates for a published reference month - not job-quality rankings, hiring recommendations, or real-time vacancy postings.