State labor market
Pennsylvania labor market
Current statewide hiring activity plus occupation-level employment and pay for Pennsylvania. 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
Pennsylvania hiring snapshot
Indeed job-postings measures across all occupations in Pennsylvania.
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 Pennsylvania 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
257,370estimated employmentGeneral and operations managers
172,010estimated employmentLaborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand
131,050estimated 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 Pennsylvania figure beside it.
- Registered nurses$96,430/yr Pennsylvania median annualU.S. $97,550/yr
- Software developers$126,550/yr Pennsylvania median annualU.S. $135,980/yr
- Electricians$67,600/yr Pennsylvania median annualU.S. $63,190/yr
- Accountants and auditors$79,000/yr Pennsylvania median annualU.S. $83,680/yr
- Elementary school teachers, except special education$77,060/yr Pennsylvania median annualU.S. $63,970/yr
- Marketing managers$150,810/yr Pennsylvania median annualU.S. $166,790/yr
Pay compared with the U.S.
How Pennsylvania occupation pay differs
Up to 5 occupations per side with at least 1,000 estimated Pennsylvania 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$48,230/yr state median · 2,970 workers+40.5%vs. U.S. $34,320/yr
- Rolling machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic$66,970/yr state median · 3,070 workers+33.6%vs. U.S. $50,140/yr
- Structural iron and steel workers$82,970/yr state median · 1,610 workers+32.2%vs. U.S. $62,780/yr
- Health education specialists$80,670/yr state median · 2,690 workers+25.9%vs. U.S. $64,070/yr
- Family medicine physicians$306,030/yr state median · 4,190 workers+25.3%vs. U.S. $244,180/yr
Lower median than U.S.
- Cooks, short order$19,910/yr state median · 3,510 workers-44.5%vs. U.S. $35,880/yr
- Flight attendants$39,520/yr state median · 2,290 workers-37.8%vs. U.S. $63,580/yr
- Personal care and service workers, all other$27,590/yr state median · 1,980 workers-33.7%vs. U.S. $41,600/yr
- Social sciences teachers, postsecondary, all other$48,710/yr state median · 1,090 workers-33.3%vs. U.S. $72,990/yr
- Healthcare practitioners and technical workers, all other$45,360/yr state median · 2,490 workers-31.1%vs. U.S. $65,790/yr
Explore occupations
Occupation pay in Pennsylvania
Search every tracked OEWS occupation record for Pennsylvania. Links marked “Pennsylvania report” open a detailed state report; links marked “National report” open the U.S. occupation report because no Pennsylvania report is available.
733 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.