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title: "Average Salary in St. Louis, MO-IL"
description: "Mean $66,330, median $49,990 in the St. Louis 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 St. Louis, MO-IL

St. Louis, MO-IL metropolitan statistical area. Mean annual wage $66,330, median $49,990 (US: $69,770 / $50,980), BLS OEWS May 2025, 1,341,320 jobs. Median at national-average prices: $52,570.

| Percentile | Annual wage |
| --- | --- |
| 10th | $31,200 |
| 25th | $37,050 |
| 50th | $49,990 |
| 75th | $78,730 |
| 90th | $115,090 |

| Price level (BEA RPP 2024, US = 100) | Index |
| --- | --- |
| All items | 95.1 |
| Housing (rents) | 79.0 |
| Goods | 100.0 |
| Utilities | 69.9 |
| Other services | 98.6 |

## Highest-paying jobs (mean annual wage)

- [General Internal Medicine Physician](https://nuecareer.com/careers/general-internal-medicine-physician): $228,280
- [Pediatrician, General](https://nuecareer.com/careers/pediatrician-general): $217,360
- [Family Medicine Physician](https://nuecareer.com/careers/family-medicine-physician): $193,420
- [Financial Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/financial-manager): $172,850
- [Lawyer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/lawyer): $167,880
- [IT Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/it-manager): $166,380
- [Architectural and Engineering Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/architectural-and-engineering-manager): $166,110
- [Natural Sciences Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/natural-sciences-manager): $162,200
- [Computer and Information Research Scientist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/computer-and-information-research-scientist): $156,710
- [Economist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/economist): $156,690

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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