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title: "Average Salary in Milwaukee, WI"
description: "Mean $67,440, median $51,160 in the Milwaukee 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 Milwaukee, WI

Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI metropolitan statistical area. Mean annual wage $67,440, median $51,160 (US: $69,770 / $50,980), BLS OEWS May 2025, 820,780 jobs. Median at national-average prices: $52,780.

| Percentile | Annual wage |
| --- | --- |
| 10th | $30,010 |
| 25th | $37,940 |
| 50th | $51,160 |
| 75th | $79,440 |
| 90th | $114,320 |

| Price level (BEA RPP 2024, US = 100) | Index |
| --- | --- |
| All items | 96.9 |
| Housing (rents) | 97.1 |
| Goods | 93.8 |
| Utilities | 91.6 |
| Other services | 99.4 |

## Highest-paying jobs (mean annual wage)

- [Physicist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/physicist): $190,130
- [Lawyer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/lawyer): $187,570
- [Commercial Pilot](https://nuecareer.com/careers/commercial-pilot): $185,590
- [Dentist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/dentist): $173,060
- [Financial Advisor](https://nuecareer.com/careers/financial-advisor): $170,410
- [IT Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/it-manager): $169,080
- [Medical and Health Services Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/medical-and-health-services-manager): $165,130
- [Financial Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/financial-manager): $164,260
- [Sales Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/sales-manager): $157,040
- [Natural Sciences Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/natural-sciences-manager): $156,960

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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