Hourly PayJobs by hourly pay, United States, May 2025
772 occupations sorted into eight bands by their median hourly wage. Choose a band to see which occupations fall in it. The median for all occupations was $24.51 an hour.
| Median hourly wage | Occupations | Jobs | Share of all jobs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under $15 an hour | 1 | 641,070 | 0% |
| $15 to $20 an hour | 111 | 44,253,950 | 28% |
| $20 to $25 an hour | 195 | 35,026,120 | 23% |
| $25 to $30 an hour | 122 | 13,287,180 | 9% |
| $30 to $40 an hour | 166 | 24,271,870 | 16% |
| $40 to $50 an hour | 67 | 11,722,910 | 8% |
| $50 to $75 an hour | 76 | 14,207,810 | 9% |
| Over $75 an hour | 34 | 4,300,490 | 3% |
How to read it
Each occupation is placed by its median: the wage of the worker in the middle. The table shows where the jobs of the country are. 772 of the 830 occupations published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics are included; the rest have only a yearly figure (teachers and pilots, for example) and no hourly one.
What the bands show
The band with the most jobs is $15 to $20 an hour, with 44,253,950 jobs; the band with the most separate occupations is $20 to $25 an hour, with 195. The national median of $24.51 an hour falls in the band $20 to $25 an hour. Adding the bands up from the bottom, 29% are in occupations whose median is under $20 an hour, 60% are in occupations whose median is under $30 an hour and 83% are in occupations whose median is under $50 an hour. The shares are of all 155,495,730 jobs counted, including those with no hourly figure, so they do not add up to 100.
The two ends and the biggest
The lowest median in the list is $14.85 an hour, for Cooks, Fast Food, and the highest published hourly median is $268.76, for Pediatric Surgeons. The occupation with the most jobs is Home Health and Personal Care Aides: 4,305,810 jobs at a median of $17.21 an hour.
An occupation's band is not a person's pay
A band says where the middle worker of an occupation stands. Inside almost every occupation, pay runs across two or three bands: a new starter can sit a band below the median and an experienced worker in an expensive city a band above. That is why each list also shows the wage below which the lowest-paid tenth fall and the wage above which the highest-paid tenth rise. Use the band to find kinds of work around a pay level, then read those two columns to see how far pay can move within the job. To see what any hourly figure means for a week, a month or a year at your own hours, open the calculator; for standard full-time hours, the hourly to salary table is quicker.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025; checked in November 2026. Figures are for employees, before tax, and leave out overtime pay. Official statistics, not advice or a pay offer; original tables at bls.gov/oes.