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title: "Average Salary in Columbus, OH"
description: "Mean $67,270, median $51,340 in the Columbus metro area (BLS OEWS May 2025), with prices and top jobs."
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last-updated: "2026-10-15T08:19:32.066Z"
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# Average salary in Columbus, OH

Columbus, OH metropolitan statistical area. Mean annual wage $67,270, median $51,340 (US: $69,770 / $50,980), BLS OEWS May 2025, 1,105,580 jobs. Median at national-average prices: $53,780.

| Percentile | Annual wage |
| --- | --- |
| 10th | $30,020 |
| 25th | $37,800 |
| 50th | $51,340 |
| 75th | $80,200 |
| 90th | $117,330 |

| Price level (BEA RPP 2024, US = 100) | Index |
| --- | --- |
| All items | 95.5 |
| Housing (rents) | 87.9 |
| Goods | 93.6 |
| Utilities | 95.5 |
| Other services | 98.9 |

## Highest-paying jobs (mean annual wage)

- [Psychiatrist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/psychiatrist): $225,910
- [IT Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/it-manager): $176,470
- [Obstetrician and Gynecologist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/obstetrician-and-gynecologist): $171,270
- [Physicist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/physicist): $168,330
- [Architectural and Engineering Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/architectural-and-engineering-manager): $166,110
- [Financial Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/financial-manager): $164,720
- [Family Medicine Physician](https://nuecareer.com/careers/family-medicine-physician): $157,640
- [Dentist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/dentist): $154,670
- [Sales Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/sales-manager): $154,460
- [Compensation and Benefits Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/compensation-and-benefits-manager): $154,270

Occupation pay is the OEWS May 2025 metro mean as published in the DOL OFLC 2026–27 wage file (metro-level estimates only).

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This bank includes information from the O\*NET 31.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). O\*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. NueCareer has transformed the data by joining it to BLS wage and projection data and deriving facet, personality-fit and AI-resilience scores. BLS and BEA data are public domain (17 U.S.C. §105).

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