State labor market
Wisconsin labor market
Current statewide hiring activity plus occupation-level employment and pay for Wisconsin. 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
Wisconsin hiring snapshot
Indeed job-postings measures across all occupations in Wisconsin.
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 Wisconsin 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
82,430estimated employmentLaborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand
70,520estimated employmentHeavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers
53,330estimated 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 Wisconsin figure beside it.
- Registered nurses$95,530/yr Wisconsin median annualU.S. $97,550/yr
- Software developers$122,660/yr Wisconsin median annualU.S. $135,980/yr
- Electricians$76,540/yr Wisconsin median annualU.S. $63,190/yr
- Accountants and auditors$79,400/yr Wisconsin median annualU.S. $83,680/yr
- Elementary school teachers, except special education$61,210/yr Wisconsin median annualU.S. $63,970/yr
- Marketing managers$133,600/yr Wisconsin median annualU.S. $166,790/yr
Pay compared with the U.S.
How Wisconsin occupation pay differs
Up to 5 occupations per side with at least 1,000 estimated Wisconsin 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.
- Physicians, all other$391,740/yr state median · 6,350 workers+47.3%vs. U.S. $265,930/yr
- General internal medicine physicians$367,160/yr state median · 1,450 workers+43.1%vs. U.S. $256,560/yr
- Career/technical education teachers, postsecondary$82,620/yr state median · 2,000 workers+29.5%vs. U.S. $63,820/yr
- Brickmasons and blockmasons$80,120/yr state median · 1,050 workers+29.0%vs. U.S. $62,120/yr
- Insurance sales agents$79,450/yr state median · 7,860 workers+27.6%vs. U.S. $62,280/yr
Lower median than U.S.
- Information and record clerks, all other$32,470/yr state median · 2,040 workers-34.4%vs. U.S. $49,500/yr
- Bartenders$23,460/yr state median · 29,520 workers-31.7%vs. U.S. $34,340/yr
- Driver/sales workers$27,560/yr state median · 10,020 workers-28.9%vs. U.S. $38,770/yr
- Producers and directors$66,390/yr state median · 1,600 workers-26.5%vs. U.S. $90,360/yr
- Psychologists, all other$81,860/yr state median · 1,080 workers-26.1%vs. U.S. $110,840/yr
Explore occupations
Occupation pay in Wisconsin
Search every tracked OEWS occupation record for Wisconsin. Links marked “Wisconsin report” open a detailed state report; links marked “National report” open the U.S. occupation report because no Wisconsin report is available.
683 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.