State labor market
Massachusetts labor market
Current statewide hiring activity plus occupation-level employment and pay for Massachusetts. 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
Massachusetts hiring snapshot
Indeed job-postings measures across all occupations in Massachusetts.
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 Massachusetts 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.
Home health and personal care aides
117,940estimated employmentGeneral and operations managers
95,880estimated employmentCustomer service representatives
49,990estimated 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 Massachusetts figure beside it.
- Registered nurses$104,550/yr Massachusetts median annualU.S. $97,550/yr
- Software developers$165,210/yr Massachusetts median annualU.S. $135,980/yr
- Electricians$79,420/yr Massachusetts median annualU.S. $63,190/yr
- Accountants and auditors$99,460/yr Massachusetts median annualU.S. $83,680/yr
- Elementary school teachers, except special education$94,000/yr Massachusetts median annualU.S. $63,970/yr
- Marketing managers$212,020/yr Massachusetts median annualU.S. $166,790/yr
Pay compared with the U.S.
How Massachusetts occupation pay differs
Up to 5 occupations per side with at least 1,000 estimated Massachusetts 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.
- Structural iron and steel workers$120,840/yr state median · 2,050 workers+92.5%vs. U.S. $62,780/yr
- Glaziers$100,810/yr state median · 1,080 workers+76.6%vs. U.S. $57,080/yr
- Natural sciences managers$267,290/yr state median · 10,590 workers+59.8%vs. U.S. $167,220/yr
- Brickmasons and blockmasons$94,950/yr state median · 1,570 workers+52.8%vs. U.S. $62,120/yr
- Career/technical education teachers, secondary school$98,020/yr state median · 3,130 workers+47.9%vs. U.S. $66,270/yr
Lower median than U.S.
- Physicists$106,410/yr state median · 1,150 workers-38.2%vs. U.S. $172,250/yr
- Mechanical engineering technologists and technicians$62,390/yr state median · 1,310 workers-16.3%vs. U.S. $74,510/yr
- Economists$106,380/yr state median · 1,030 workers-14.7%vs. U.S. $124,720/yr
- Food batchmakers$36,880/yr state median · 5,100 workers-12.8%vs. U.S. $42,290/yr
- Physicians, all other$236,580/yr state median · 8,210 workers-11.0%vs. U.S. $265,930/yr
Explore occupations
Occupation pay in Massachusetts
Search every tracked OEWS occupation record for Massachusetts. Links marked “Massachusetts report” open a detailed state report; links marked “National report” open the U.S. occupation report because no Massachusetts report is available.
682 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.