State labor market
Indiana labor market
Current statewide hiring activity plus occupation-level employment and pay for Indiana. 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
Indiana hiring snapshot
Indeed job-postings measures across all occupations in Indiana.
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 Indiana 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.
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand
103,200estimated employmentMiscellaneous assemblers and fabricators
85,610estimated employmentHeavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers
59,090estimated 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 Indiana figure beside it.
- Registered nurses$83,500/yr Indiana median annualU.S. $97,550/yr
- Software developers$105,920/yr Indiana median annualU.S. $135,980/yr
- Electricians$68,490/yr Indiana median annualU.S. $63,190/yr
- Accountants and auditors$77,720/yr Indiana median annualU.S. $83,680/yr
- Elementary school teachers, except special education$59,700/yr Indiana median annualU.S. $63,970/yr
- Marketing managers$136,260/yr Indiana median annualU.S. $166,790/yr
Pay compared with the U.S.
How Indiana occupation pay differs
Up to 5 occupations per side with at least 1,000 estimated Indiana 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.
- Physicians, all other$366,190/yr state median · 6,760 workers+37.7%vs. U.S. $265,930/yr
- Operating engineers and other construction equipment operators$79,580/yr state median · 11,520 workers+33.0%vs. U.S. $59,850/yr
- Broadcast announcers and radio disc jockeys$61,760/yr state median · 1,040 workers+30.5%vs. U.S. $47,340/yr
- Insulation workers, mechanical$72,220/yr state median · 1,320 workers+23.8%vs. U.S. $58,340/yr
- Weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers, recordkeeping$57,210/yr state median · 2,590 workers+23.4%vs. U.S. $46,380/yr
Lower median than U.S.
- Physical scientists, all other$68,670/yr state median · 1,240 workers-44.0%vs. U.S. $122,570/yr
- Managers, all other$79,900/yr state median · 6,990 workers-43.7%vs. U.S. $141,900/yr
- Web and digital interface designers$63,430/yr state median · 1,160 workers-39.0%vs. U.S. $104,000/yr
- Cooks, short order$21,940/yr state median · 2,940 workers-38.9%vs. U.S. $35,880/yr
- Natural sciences managers$108,250/yr state median · 1,670 workers-35.3%vs. U.S. $167,220/yr
Explore occupations
Occupation pay in Indiana
Search every tracked OEWS occupation record for Indiana. Links marked “Indiana report” open a detailed state report; links marked “National report” open the U.S. occupation report because no Indiana report is available.
704 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.