State labor market
Mississippi labor market
Current statewide hiring activity plus occupation-level employment and pay for Mississippi. 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
Mississippi hiring snapshot
Indeed job-postings measures across all occupations in Mississippi.
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 Mississippi 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
30,750estimated employmentHeavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers
24,160estimated employmentHome health and personal care aides
21,800estimated 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 Mississippi figure beside it.
- Registered nurses$77,090/yr Mississippi median annualU.S. $97,550/yr
- Software developers$95,330/yr Mississippi median annualU.S. $135,980/yr
- Electricians$60,860/yr Mississippi median annualU.S. $63,190/yr
- Accountants and auditors$68,100/yr Mississippi median annualU.S. $83,680/yr
- Elementary school teachers, except special education$49,790/yr Mississippi median annualU.S. $63,970/yr
- Marketing managers$100,940/yr Mississippi median annualU.S. $166,790/yr
Pay compared with the U.S.
How Mississippi occupation pay differs
Up to 5 occupations per side with at least 1,000 estimated Mississippi 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.
- Health specialties teachers, postsecondary$137,220/yr state median · 1,890 workers+27.9%vs. U.S. $107,310/yr
- Tutors$49,610/yr state median · 1,220 workers+14.4%vs. U.S. $43,350/yr
- Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders$53,170/yr state median · 2,010 workers+10.2%vs. U.S. $48,250/yr
- Sewing machine operators$37,600/yr state median · 2,270 workers+2.5%vs. U.S. $36,670/yr
- General and operations managers$106,680/yr state median · 10,630 workers+0.9%vs. U.S. $105,770/yr
Lower median than U.S.
- First-line supervisors of firefighting and prevention workers$48,250/yr state median · 1,550 workers-48.4%vs. U.S. $93,530/yr
- Substitute teachers, short-term$22,340/yr state median · 2,390 workers-46.4%vs. U.S. $41,670/yr
- First-line supervisors of police and detectives$59,860/yr state median · 2,060 workers-43.5%vs. U.S. $106,040/yr
- Lawyers$91,690/yr state median · 3,100 workers-42.6%vs. U.S. $159,670/yr
- Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents$46,680/yr state median · 1,950 workers-40.7%vs. U.S. $78,660/yr
Explore occupations
Occupation pay in Mississippi
Search every tracked OEWS occupation record for Mississippi. Links marked “Mississippi report” open a detailed state report; links marked “National report” open the U.S. occupation report because no Mississippi report is available.
645 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.