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title: "Jobs That Pay $30 an Hour"
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# Jobs That Pay $30 an Hour

Occupations whose BLS median hourly wage is at least $30.00 and under $40.00, ranked by projected annual openings so the list leads with the work that exists in volume at this rate. The hourly figure is the one BLS publishes in the OEWS release, not an annual salary divided by 2,080; occupations OEWS reports on an annual basis only, which is most teaching and airline flight-crew work, carry no hourly wage to test and are left off rather than converted. The band has an upper end so that each rate gets its own list rather than four copies of the same one; jobs paying above $40 an hour are on the higher lists.

30 occupations, in the ranked order the career bank computed. Wages are BLS OEWS, May 2025. Growth figures are BLS Employment Projections and education is the BLS "typical education needed for entry".

| # | Occupation | Median annual wage | Projected growth | Typical education |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | [First-Line Supervisor of Office and Administrative Support Workers](https://nuecareer.com/careers/first-line-supervisor-of-office-and-administrative-support-workers) | $69,500 | -0.3% | High school |
| 2 | [Sales Representative of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel](https://nuecareer.com/careers/sales-representative-of-services) | $69,990 | +3.1% | High school |
| 3 | [Sales Representative, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scientific Products](https://nuecareer.com/careers/sales-representative-wholesale-and-manufacturing) | $72,080 | +0.3% | High school |
| 4 | [Business Continuity Planner](https://nuecareer.com/careers/business-continuity-planner) | $83,050 | +3.0% | Bachelor's |
| 5 | [Market Research Analyst and Marketing Specialist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/market-research-analyst-and-marketing-specialist) | $78,760 | +6.7% | Bachelor's |
| 6 | [Human Resources Specialist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/human-resources-specialist) | $75,940 | +6.2% | Bachelor's |
| 7 | [Electrician](https://nuecareer.com/careers/electrician) | $63,190 | +9.5% | High school |
| 8 | [First-Line Supervisor of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers](https://nuecareer.com/careers/first-line-supervisor-of-construction-trades-and-extraction-workers) | $79,920 | +5.3% | High school |
| 9 | [First-Line Supervisor of Production and Operating Workers](https://nuecareer.com/careers/first-line-supervisor-of-production-and-operating-workers) | $74,450 | +1.2% | High school |
| 10 | [Licensed Practical Nurse](https://nuecareer.com/careers/licensed-practical-nurse) | $64,400 | +2.6% | Certificate |
| 11 | [Police Officer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/police-officer) | $76,210 | +3.1% | High school |
| 12 | [First-Line Supervisor of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers](https://nuecareer.com/careers/first-line-supervisor-of-mechanics-installers-and-repairers) | $79,860 | +3.1% | High school |
| 13 | [Buyer and Purchasing Agent, Farm Products](https://nuecareer.com/careers/buyer-and-purchasing-agent-farm-products) | $77,710 | +5.8% | Bachelor's |
| 14 | [Wholesale and Retail Buyer, Except Farm Products](https://nuecareer.com/careers/wholesale-and-retail-buyer) | $77,710 | +5.8% | Bachelor's |
| 15 | [Purchasing Agent, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm Products](https://nuecareer.com/careers/purchasing-agent) | $77,710 | +5.8% | Bachelor's |
| 16 | [Executive Secretary and Executive Administrative Assistant](https://nuecareer.com/careers/executive-secretary-and-executive-administrative-assistant) | $76,590 | -1.6% | High school |
| 17 | [Industrial Machinery Mechanic](https://nuecareer.com/careers/industrial-machinery-mechanic) | $64,520 | +16.1% | High school |
| 18 | [Plumber](https://nuecareer.com/careers/plumber) | $63,800 | +4.5% | High school |
| 19 | [Training and Development Specialist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/training-and-development-specialist) | $69,280 | +10.8% | Bachelor's |
| 20 | [Food Service Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/food-service-manager) | $69,390 | +6.4% | High school |
| 21 | [Paralegal](https://nuecareer.com/careers/paralegal) | $62,890 | +0.2% | Associate's |
| 22 | [Property, Real Estate, and Community Association Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/property-real-estate-and-community-association-manager) | $69,990 | +3.6% | High school |
| 23 | [Security, Commodity, and Financial Services Sales Agent](https://nuecareer.com/careers/security-commodity-and-financial-services-sales-agent) | $78,660 | +3.3% | Bachelor's |
| 24 | [Compliance Officer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/compliance-officer) | $80,730 | +3.0% | Bachelor's |
| 25 | [Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselor and Advisor](https://nuecareer.com/careers/educational-guidance-and-career-counselor-and-advisor) | $64,330 | +3.5% | Master's |
| 26 | [Public Relations Specialist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/public-relations-specialist) | $74,750 | +4.8% | Bachelor's |
| 27 | [Logistician](https://nuecareer.com/careers/logistician) | $82,320 | +16.7% | Bachelor's |
| 28 | [Chef](https://nuecareer.com/careers/chef) | $62,470 | +7.1% | High school |
| 29 | [Medical and Clinical Laboratory Technologist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/medical-and-clinical-laboratory-technologist) | $62,930 | +1.7% | Bachelor's |
| 30 | [Medical and Clinical Laboratory Technician](https://nuecareer.com/careers/medical-and-clinical-laboratory-technician) | $62,930 | +1.7% | Bachelor's |

Full record for any row, including wage percentiles and state-level pay: https://nuecareer.com/careers/{slug} or https://nuecareer.com/api/v1/careers/{slug}.

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This bank includes information from the O\*NET 30.3 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).

O\*NET content is used under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). How these figures are sourced and derived: https://nuecareer.com/careers/methodology

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