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title: "Average Salary in Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN"
description: "Mean $62,310, median $48,370 in the Louisville/Jefferson County 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 Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN

Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN metropolitan statistical area. Mean annual wage $62,310, median $48,370 (US: $69,770 / $50,980), BLS OEWS May 2025, 685,190 jobs. Median at national-average prices: $51,970.

| Percentile | Annual wage |
| --- | --- |
| 10th | $29,410 |
| 25th | $36,960 |
| 50th | $48,370 |
| 75th | $72,040 |
| 90th | $101,860 |

| Price level (BEA RPP 2024, US = 100) | Index |
| --- | --- |
| All items | 93.1 |
| Housing (rents) | 78.6 |
| Goods | 96.2 |
| Utilities | 75.0 |
| Other services | 96.8 |

## Highest-paying jobs (mean annual wage)

- [Nurse Anesthetist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/nurse-anesthetist): $234,890
- [Commercial Pilot](https://nuecareer.com/careers/commercial-pilot): $210,350
- [Dentist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/dentist): $168,190
- [Education Administrator, Postsecondary](https://nuecareer.com/careers/education-administrator-postsecondary): $164,550
- [Podiatrist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/podiatrist): $164,340
- [Sales Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/sales-manager): $155,920
- [IT Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/it-manager): $155,330
- [Architectural and Engineering Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/architectural-and-engineering-manager): $154,710
- [Financial Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/financial-manager): $152,820
- [Compensation and Benefits Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/compensation-and-benefits-manager): $151,300

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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