State labor market
Virginia labor market
Current statewide hiring activity plus occupation-level employment and pay for Virginia. 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
Virginia hiring snapshot
Indeed job-postings measures across all occupations in Virginia.
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 Virginia 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
103,590estimated employmentHome health and personal care aides
70,070estimated 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 Virginia figure beside it.
- Registered nurses$93,600/yr Virginia median annualU.S. $97,550/yr
- Software developers$136,460/yr Virginia median annualU.S. $135,980/yr
- Electricians$62,900/yr Virginia median annualU.S. $63,190/yr
- Accountants and auditors$93,290/yr Virginia median annualU.S. $83,680/yr
- Elementary school teachers, except special education$65,550/yr Virginia median annualU.S. $63,970/yr
- Marketing managers$187,820/yr Virginia median annualU.S. $166,790/yr
Pay compared with the U.S.
How Virginia occupation pay differs
Up to 5 occupations per side with at least 1,000 estimated Virginia 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.
- Operations research analysts$129,460/yr state median · 6,980 workers+45.6%vs. U.S. $88,940/yr
- Chief executives$310,740/yr state median · 4,870 workers+45.2%vs. U.S. $213,990/yr
- Social scientists and related workers, all other$140,670/yr state median · 3,380 workers+39.1%vs. U.S. $101,110/yr
- Web developers$128,380/yr state median · 4,590 workers+38.6%vs. U.S. $92,650/yr
- Bartenders$47,070/yr state median · 13,370 workers+37.1%vs. U.S. $34,340/yr
Lower median than U.S.
- Judges, magistrate judges, and magistrates$104,000/yr state median · 1,270 workers-32.5%vs. U.S. $153,990/yr
- Producers and directors$65,900/yr state median · 2,820 workers-27.1%vs. U.S. $90,360/yr
- Web and digital interface designers$77,140/yr state median · 1,990 workers-25.8%vs. U.S. $104,000/yr
- Ship engineers$82,370/yr state median · 1,450 workers-24.8%vs. U.S. $109,530/yr
- Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents$62,910/yr state median · 11,320 workers-20.0%vs. U.S. $78,660/yr
Explore occupations
Occupation pay in Virginia
Search every tracked OEWS occupation record for Virginia. Links marked “Virginia report” open a detailed state report; links marked “National report” open the U.S. occupation report because no Virginia report is available.
695 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.