State labor market
Missouri labor market
Current statewide hiring activity plus occupation-level employment and pay for Missouri. 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
Missouri hiring snapshot
Indeed job-postings measures across all occupations in Missouri.
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 Missouri 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
109,020estimated employmentHome health and personal care aides
94,810estimated 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 Missouri figure beside it.
- Registered nurses$81,780/yr Missouri median annualU.S. $97,550/yr
- Software developers$126,120/yr Missouri median annualU.S. $135,980/yr
- Electricians$65,410/yr Missouri median annualU.S. $63,190/yr
- Accountants and auditors$76,590/yr Missouri median annualU.S. $83,680/yr
- Elementary school teachers, except special education$50,910/yr Missouri median annualU.S. $63,970/yr
- Marketing managers$130,550/yr Missouri median annualU.S. $166,790/yr
Pay compared with the U.S.
How Missouri occupation pay differs
Up to 5 occupations per side with at least 1,000 estimated Missouri 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.
- Paving, surfacing, and tamping equipment operators$69,400/yr state median · 1,560 workers+30.1%vs. U.S. $53,340/yr
- Structural iron and steel workers$77,410/yr state median · 1,320 workers+23.3%vs. U.S. $62,780/yr
- Health specialties teachers, postsecondary$130,490/yr state median · 5,700 workers+21.6%vs. U.S. $107,310/yr
- Construction laborers$56,730/yr state median · 17,050 workers+20.4%vs. U.S. $47,120/yr
- Dentists, general$204,960/yr state median · 2,440 workers+19.9%vs. U.S. $170,950/yr
Lower median than U.S.
- First-line supervisors of correctional officers$46,840/yr state median · 1,090 workers-39.9%vs. U.S. $77,970/yr
- Biological scientists, all other$63,290/yr state median · 1,120 workers-36.0%vs. U.S. $98,920/yr
- Web and digital interface designers$70,970/yr state median · 1,210 workers-31.8%vs. U.S. $104,000/yr
- Legal secretaries and administrative assistants$38,560/yr state median · 3,310 workers-30.6%vs. U.S. $55,570/yr
- Family medicine physicians$171,180/yr state median · 3,740 workers-29.9%vs. U.S. $244,180/yr
Explore occupations
Occupation pay in Missouri
Search every tracked OEWS occupation record for Missouri. Links marked “Missouri report” open a detailed state report; links marked “National report” open the U.S. occupation report because no Missouri report is available.
694 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.