State labor market
Arizona labor market
Current statewide hiring activity plus occupation-level employment and pay for Arizona. OEWS answers what occupations pay and how many workers BLS estimates are employed; the postings measures show more current statewide hiring activity.
Current statewide signal
Arizona hiring snapshot
Indeed job-postings measures across all occupations in Arizona.
Indeed job postings only. Postings are not a count of all vacancies or hires, Indeed does not cover the whole labor market, and this is statewide activity across all occupations, not an occupation health score. Each series is seasonally adjusted and indexed to its own February 1, 2020 level, so a higher index does not mean more jobs than another state. Source: Indeed Hiring Lab · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved Sep 26, 2026. JobMarketHealth calculates the displayed changes and differences.
Occupations & pay
Where Arizona workers are employed
The eight largest occupations in our tracked OEWS catalog, by BLS estimated employment. These are estimated jobs held, not current openings or a count of unique people.
General and operations managers
110,480estimated employmentCustomer service representatives
87,020estimated employmentHome health and personal care aides
74,540estimated employmentLaborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand
71,090estimated employmentPay examples
Selected occupation pay examples
The same familiar occupations on every state page. Each U.S. figure uses the same measure (annual or hourly) as the Arizona figure beside it.
- Registered nurses$99,500/yr Arizona median annualU.S. $97,550/yr
- Software developers$129,690/yr Arizona median annualU.S. $135,980/yr
- Electricians$61,060/yr Arizona median annualU.S. $63,190/yr
- Accountants and auditors$79,970/yr Arizona median annualU.S. $83,680/yr
- Elementary school teachers, except special education$56,590/yr Arizona median annualU.S. $63,970/yr
- Marketing managers$132,220/yr Arizona median annualU.S. $166,790/yr
Pay compared with the U.S.
How Arizona occupation pay differs
Up to 5 occupations per side with at least 1,000 estimated Arizona workers and published state and U.S. median annual wages, ordered by the largest percentage gap. Nominal wages, not adjusted for cost of living; not a demand or overall market ranking, and not a test of statistical significance.
Higher median than U.S.
- Gambling dealers$60,940/yr state median · 1,680 workers+77.6%vs. U.S. $34,320/yr
- Semiconductor processing technicians$78,940/yr state median · 2,270 workers+53.5%vs. U.S. $51,430/yr
- Bartenders$45,070/yr state median · 14,840 workers+31.2%vs. U.S. $34,340/yr
- Cooks, short order$46,630/yr state median · 1,880 workers+30.0%vs. U.S. $35,880/yr
- Chiropractors$100,260/yr state median · 1,050 workers+26.6%vs. U.S. $79,200/yr
Lower median than U.S.
- Producers and directors$67,320/yr state median · 1,720 workers-25.5%vs. U.S. $90,360/yr
- Property appraisers and assessors$51,250/yr state median · 1,670 workers-24.6%vs. U.S. $67,960/yr
- Eligibility interviewers, government programs$41,690/yr state median · 3,440 workers-23.1%vs. U.S. $54,210/yr
- Mental health and substance abuse social workers$46,380/yr state median · 3,690 workers-23.1%vs. U.S. $60,280/yr
- Public relations managers$114,400/yr state median · 1,170 workers-22.1%vs. U.S. $146,910/yr
Explore occupations
Occupation pay in Arizona
Search every tracked OEWS occupation record for Arizona. Links marked “Arizona report” open a detailed state report; links marked “National report” open the U.S. occupation report because no Arizona report is available.
673 occupations · showing 1–25
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), reference period May 2025; our data connection last checked Sep 23, 2026. OEWS covers wage and salary jobs and excludes the self-employed. “Top-coded” means BLS publishes only that the wage is at or above its reporting ceiling; “Not released” means BLS withheld the estimate. Missing values are never estimated. These occupation wages are separate from the QCEW industry trends on detailed occupation pages.