Wages by Occupation in Central Louisiana nonmetropolitan area

Pay and jobs by occupation in the Central Louisiana nonmetropolitan area (BLS, May 2025). BLS counts about 77,790 jobs across all occupations here, with a median annual wage of $39,410 for all occupations combined. 255 occupations have a published median wage in this area.

Wages by occupation

Occupation	Jobs	Median annual wage	Mean annual wage	Jobs per 1,000 jobs here	Concentration vs. U.S.
Accountants and Auditors	320	$64,490	$69,950	4.17	0.45
Administrative Services Managers	90	$77,680	$95,450	1.19	0.70
Amusement and Recreation Attendants	40	$22,900	$25,300	0.51	0.20
Animal Caretakers	40	$25,220	$28,820	0.57	0.33
Architectural and Engineering Managers	40	$132,690	$147,780	0.50	0.35
Automotive and Watercraft Service Attendants	50	$35,980	$37,240	0.67	1.01
Automotive Service Technicians and Mechanics	320	$40,130	$44,790	4.06	0.90
Bakers	60	$28,660	$29,790	0.81	0.53
Bartenders	210	$19,820	$22,590	2.64	0.54
Billing and Posting Clerks	290	$36,150	$36,340	3.74	1.44
Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks	600	$39,150	$44,190	7.75	0.88
Bus and Truck Mechanics and Diesel Engine Specialists	80	$48,880	$52,310	1.02	0.55
Bus Drivers, School	370	$21,890	$30,440	4.76	1.84
Business Operations Specialists, All Other	580	$76,400	$80,010	7.45	1.07
Butchers and Meat Cutters	120	$34,800	$34,760	1.59	1.81
Buyers and Purchasing Agents	100	$66,710	$73,500	1.34	0.42
Career/Technical Education Teachers, Secondary School	160	$57,080	$57,030	2.07	2.89
Carpenters	260	$46,810	$46,300	3.35	0.78
Cashiers	2,360	$23,500	$25,260	30.39	1.53
Chefs and Head Cooks	110	$47,890	$62,530	1.44	1.12
Chief Executives	30	$114,820	$150,680	0.43	0.32
Childcare Workers	260	$21,190	$22,760	3.39	1.02
Civil Engineers	80	$103,050	$103,990	1.01	0.43
Claims Adjusters, Examiners, and Investigators	90	$60,530	$67,560	1.21	0.58
Cleaners of Vehicles and Equipment	100	$27,660	$30,160	1.28	0.52
Clinical Laboratory Technologists and Technicians	140	$61,160	$60,950	1.80	0.84
Coaches and Scouts	80	$62,920	$60,020	1.05	0.66
Coin, Vending, and Amusement Machine Servicers and Repairers	30	$37,020	$38,080	0.40	2.35
Community and Social Service Specialists, All Other	330	$42,230	$44,460	4.29	6.20
Compliance Officers	180	$71,280	$77,930	2.31	0.86
Computer and Information Systems Managers	60	$120,770	$126,610	0.82	0.19
Computer Occupations, All Other	200	$70,840	$81,110	2.55	0.91
Computer Systems Analysts	50	$93,310	$103,500	0.62	0.19
Computer User Support Specialists	110	$50,920	$64,940	1.44	0.31
Construction Laborers	980	$34,360	$35,820	12.64	1.79
Construction Managers	140	$100,860	$112,030	1.75	0.71
Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria	490	$21,430	$23,560	6.26	2.21
Cooks, Restaurant	510	$26,270	$27,690	6.59	0.73
Cooks, Short Order	80	$27,730	$28,700	1.02	1.14
Correctional Officers and Jailers	1,900	$37,060	$40,920	24.45	9.99
Cost Estimators	50	$74,620	$73,490	0.62	0.43
Counselors, All Other	80	$41,630	$45,810	1.07	5.85
Counter and Rental Clerks	80	$30,910	$32,010	1.00	0.39
Court, Municipal, and License Clerks	—	$42,390	$41,740	—	—
Customer Service Representatives	640	$34,360	$34,670	8.27	0.50
Dental Assistants	130	$36,990	$40,200	1.69	0.68
Dental Hygienists	50	$78,620	$81,850	0.64	0.45
Detectives and Criminal Investigators	110	$49,810	$53,330	1.46	1.99
Diagnostic Medical Sonographers	40	$75,360	$74,840	0.45	0.78
Dietitians and Nutritionists	40	$65,810	$68,350	0.52	1.04
Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers	120	$23,770	$24,730	1.49	0.43
Dishwashers	120	$20,800	$22,040	1.56	0.51
Dispatchers, Except Police, Fire, and Ambulance	80	$45,220	$48,150	1.03	0.79
Driver/Sales Workers	110	$38,650	$36,210	1.43	0.54
Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary	350	$78,880	$78,590	4.50	2.13
Educational Instruction and Library Workers, All Other	180	$49,940	$51,950	2.26	2.97
Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors	190	$56,300	$59,090	2.48	1.09
Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Commercial and Industrial Equipment	70	$68,650	$67,990	0.91	2.17
Electricians	250	$58,450	$58,220	3.15	0.65
Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education	1,320	$47,280	$55,610	16.96	1.90
Emergency Medical Technicians	160	$34,090	$35,750	2.00	1.72
Engineering Technologists and Technicians, Except Drafters, All Other	90	$72,810	$70,080	1.16	3.00
Engineers, All Other	140	$100,420	$112,430	1.76	1.78
Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants	180	$53,320	$57,950	2.26	0.76
Extraction Workers, All Other	110	$38,360	$46,920	1.39	39.05
Facilities Managers	30	$87,500	$100,220	0.42	0.42
Family Medicine Physicians	50	$248,960	$223,050	0.60	0.86
Farm Equipment Mechanics and Service Technicians	40	$48,320	$50,610	0.52	2.13
Fast Food and Counter Workers	1,910	$21,820	$22,480	24.51	0.99
File Clerks	40	$39,600	$35,450	0.50	1.06
Financial Clerks, All Other	50	$36,450	$39,530	0.65	2.80
Financial Managers	190	$114,550	$126,820	2.42	0.45
Financial Specialists, All Other	150	$53,290	$58,960	1.93	2.27
Firefighters	200	$28,860	$35,290	2.62	1.18
First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers	360	$64,340	$71,040	4.57	0.88
First-Line Supervisors of Correctional Officers	280	$54,890	$60,830	3.64	10.60
First-Line Supervisors of Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Workers	130	$60,910	$65,660	1.64	9.14
First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention Workers	60	$55,910	$51,440	0.79	1.24
First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers	690	$31,600	$35,140	8.93	1.13
First-Line Supervisors of Gambling Services Workers	70	$61,090	$57,850	0.85	5.06
First-Line Supervisors of Housekeeping and Janitorial Workers	160	$37,620	$37,630	2.04	1.77
First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers	420	$64,440	$72,900	5.34	1.35
First-Line Supervisors of Non-Retail Sales Workers	50	$58,090	$74,830	0.70	0.51
First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers	760	$49,980	$54,220	9.81	1.06
First-Line Supervisors of Personal Service Workers	50	$32,150	$36,640	0.61	0.83
First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives	150	$46,800	$54,360	1.98	1.99
First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers	440	$79,750	$80,560	5.65	1.30
First-Line Supervisors of Protective Service Workers, All Other	50	$58,830	$66,810	0.67	5.04
First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers	850	$36,310	$41,340	10.95	1.52
First-Line Supervisors of Security Workers	30	$48,700	$53,540	0.44	0.84
First-Line Supervisors of Transportation and Material Moving Workers, Except Aircraft Cargo Handling Supervisors	250	$56,940	$57,420	3.18	0.79
Food Preparation and Serving Related Workers, All Other	150	$19,270	$22,730	1.99	3.65
Food Preparation Workers	1,040	$21,910	$22,990	13.33	2.32
Food Processing Workers, All Other	60	$37,470	$35,310	0.74	1.76
Food Servers, Nonrestaurant	60	$24,100	$23,490	0.79	0.42
Food Service Managers	50	$62,910	$69,890	0.70	0.46
Foresters	40	$78,450	$89,560	0.58	8.59
Gambling Change Persons and Booth Cashiers	60	$23,650	$26,180	0.81	5.81
Gambling Service Workers, All Other	120	$27,320	$30,070	1.54	16.93
General and Operations Managers	1,560	$86,180	$105,970	20.01	0.89
Health Technologists and Technicians, All Other	70	$38,490	$44,680	0.86	0.73
Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Workers, All Other	80	$68,220	$70,370	0.97	4.30
Healthcare Social Workers	100	$60,780	$62,270	1.26	1.04
Healthcare Support Workers, All Other	290	$28,260	$30,650	3.73	5.28
Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers	330	$50,760	$56,800	4.25	1.62
Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers	1,280	$46,510	$46,950	16.40	1.24
Helpers, Construction Trades, All Other	30	$40,390	$41,670	0.42	2.62
Helpers--Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers	330	$48,910	$41,790	4.21	6.84
Helpers--Production Workers	80	$33,550	$35,620	1.04	0.98
Highway Maintenance Workers	100	$35,470	$33,420	1.27	1.27
Home Health and Personal Care Aides	2,210	$21,690	$23,130	28.39	1.03
Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop	140	$17,910	$21,440	1.86	0.67
Hotel, Motel, and Resort Desk Clerks	180	$23,280	$25,180	2.26	1.34
Human Resources Assistants, Except Payroll and Timekeeping	40	$46,450	$46,720	0.54	0.92
Human Resources Managers	40	$98,480	$106,730	0.46	0.32
Human Resources Specialists	230	$59,990	$63,900	2.90	0.49
Industrial Engineers	40	$102,370	$121,600	0.53	0.23
Industrial Machinery Mechanics	180	$58,340	$56,700	2.35	0.83
Industrial Production Managers	110	$131,480	$136,560	1.36	0.86
Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators	390	$47,110	$45,670	5.01	1.01
Information and Record Clerks, All Other	110	$46,110	$46,780	1.35	1.56
Information Security Analysts	—	$73,650	$77,380	—	—
Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers	130	$47,380	$54,310	1.69	0.44
Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers, All Other	270	$47,580	$52,790	3.51	3.10
Instructional Coordinators	150	$59,500	$67,200	1.87	1.27
Insurance Claims and Policy Processing Clerks	50	$43,860	$42,320	0.62	0.45
Insurance Sales Agents	180	$45,540	$53,370	2.33	0.76
Interviewers, Except Eligibility and Loan	150	$30,760	$31,460	1.93	2.02
Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners	1,870	$27,690	$28,500	24.03	1.69
Kindergarten Teachers, Except Special Education	110	$47,040	$48,760	1.40	2.00
Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand	1,500	$35,490	$35,180	19.32	1.02
Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers	260	$31,200	$32,720	3.40	0.56
Laundry and Dry-Cleaning Workers	120	$22,390	$24,920	1.48	1.16
Lawyers	250	$94,020	$119,270	3.25	0.67
Legal Secretaries and Administrative Assistants	130	$37,780	$40,110	1.70	1.69
Legal Support Workers, All Other	70	$37,480	$43,180	0.85	2.84
Librarians and Media Collections Specialists	140	$55,760	$56,260	1.85	2.15
Library Assistants, Clerical	70	$28,190	$28,430	0.95	1.72
Library Technicians	40	$31,760	$33,900	0.53	1.20
Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses	1,200	$50,970	$52,250	15.43	3.70
Light Truck Drivers	330	$30,060	$32,360	4.24	0.67
Loan Interviewers and Clerks	110	$38,970	$42,280	1.42	1.34
Loan Officers	120	$65,240	$78,680	1.52	0.86
Log Graders and Scalers	40	$47,510	$46,880	0.55	27.64
Logging Equipment Operators	470	$58,540	$57,190	6.01	44.37
Logisticians	70	$78,850	$88,030	0.94	0.58
Machinists	160	$60,830	$56,180	2.02	1.10
Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners	630	$23,000	$24,020	8.16	1.47
Maintenance and Repair Workers, General	1,090	$42,250	$49,600	13.97	1.42
Maintenance Workers, Machinery	80	$58,060	$60,790	1.01	2.62
Management Analysts	140	$75,360	$86,000	1.84	0.32
Managers, All Other	410	$106,680	$113,820	5.33	1.33
Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists	130	$46,970	$56,960	1.72	0.30
Material Moving Workers, All Other	90	$50,570	$50,520	1.12	7.43
Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers	90	$27,650	$28,760	1.21	1.29
Mechanical Engineers	60	$92,060	$103,630	0.82	0.43
Medical and Health Services Managers	320	$100,970	$114,240	4.11	1.07
Medical Assistants	420	$30,100	$32,140	5.36	1.02
Medical Records Specialists	100	$40,990	$45,980	1.34	1.07
Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants	100	$35,290	$37,300	1.29	0.21
Merchandise Displayers and Window Trimmers	110	$29,270	$31,500	1.35	1.27
Middle School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education	—	$48,670	$54,280	—	—
Millwrights	220	$67,100	$69,220	2.85	10.98
Mobile Heavy Equipment Mechanics, Except Engines	190	$65,820	$64,210	2.44	2.15
Network and Computer Systems Administrators	40	$81,660	$88,720	0.50	0.25
Nurse Practitioners	250	$129,360	$129,790	3.25	1.56
Nursing Assistants	1,590	$29,020	$29,650	20.48	2.20
Occupational Health and Safety Specialists	60	$89,740	$84,690	0.80	0.88
Occupational Therapists	110	$105,720	$100,490	1.42	1.36
Occupational Therapy Assistants	70	$68,570	$70,490	0.84	2.56
Office and Administrative Support Workers, All Other	140	$42,400	$45,120	1.77	1.43
Office Clerks, General	1,260	$29,640	$32,170	16.20	1.02
Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators	400	$47,590	$51,290	5.13	1.67
Opticians, Dispensing	30	$36,260	$38,490	0.43	0.91
Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders	70	$38,820	$40,050	0.88	0.36
Packers and Packagers, Hand	140	$23,880	$27,910	1.81	0.50
Painters, Construction and Maintenance	50	$43,730	$44,220	0.64	0.44
Paralegals and Legal Assistants	100	$49,310	$54,120	1.34	0.53
Paramedics	130	$47,850	$49,290	1.67	2.57
Parts Salespersons	130	$27,780	$30,490	1.70	0.98
Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks	110	$46,840	$48,340	1.40	1.42
Personal Care and Service Workers, All Other	40	$27,370	$29,000	0.51	1.31
Personal Financial Advisors	40	$43,250	$47,440	0.49	0.28
Pharmacists	180	$131,970	$131,050	2.33	1.12
Pharmacy Technicians	320	$39,110	$40,860	4.14	1.36
Phlebotomists	110	$30,000	$32,470	1.45	1.57
Physical Therapist Aides	60	$22,070	$22,590	0.72	2.33
Physical Therapist Assistants	110	$72,220	$66,530	1.36	1.88
Physical Therapists	150	$105,850	$104,190	1.96	1.14
Physicians, All Other	80	$328,470	$319,090	1.00	0.45
Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters	100	$57,130	$55,600	1.34	0.45
Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers	570	$39,550	$40,900	7.27	1.68
Postal Service Clerks	120	$61,310	$59,160	1.49	3.15
Postal Service Mail Carriers	290	$54,430	$57,960	3.66	1.73
Postmasters and Mail Superintendents	30	$94,600	$93,880	0.40	4.49
Postsecondary Teachers, All Other	160	$63,100	$78,200	2.06	2.14
Preschool Teachers, Except Special Education	130	$37,900	$38,750	1.68	0.54
Probation Officers and Correctional Treatment Specialists	40	$66,280	$64,640	0.51	0.89
Procurement Clerks	40	$49,940	$48,840	0.47	1.32
Production Workers, All Other	1,250	$38,170	$42,280	16.09	9.94
Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks	50	$60,140	$63,710	0.58	0.23
Project Management Specialists	190	$89,650	$104,770	2.38	0.35
Property, Real Estate, and Community Association Managers	140	$37,700	$46,840	1.85	0.92
Protective Service Workers, All Other	370	$35,540	$41,050	4.77	9.10
Psychiatric Technicians	100	$29,780	$30,900	1.29	1.27
Public Relations Specialists	40	$69,670	$70,520	0.57	0.31
Public Safety Telecommunicators	250	$36,050	$38,130	3.27	4.96
Radiologic Technologists and Technicians	170	$61,950	$62,560	2.23	1.51
Real Estate Sales Agents	40	$40,620	$46,400	0.45	0.36
Receptionists and Information Clerks	420	$29,520	$30,070	5.40	0.92
Recreation Workers	150	$28,470	$30,400	1.90	0.89
Refuse and Recyclable Material Collectors	130	$28,220	$28,900	1.65	1.75
Registered Nurses	1,790	$75,640	$77,370	23.07	1.06
Respiratory Therapists	110	$67,060	$69,750	1.41	1.56
Retail Salespersons	1,540	$29,070	$30,500	19.81	0.79
Roustabouts, Oil and Gas	130	$37,430	$41,540	1.65	5.71
Sales Managers	110	$97,030	$115,490	1.37	0.33
Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel	200	$45,880	$56,910	2.61	0.32
Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scientific Products	320	$59,920	$64,310	4.09	0.51
Sawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Wood	220	$46,610	$47,100	2.86	10.87
School Bus Monitors	70	$20,800	$21,280	0.95	1.89
Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education	1,520	$51,160	$58,220	19.51	2.85
Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive	1,450	$33,860	$35,560	18.68	1.70
Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents	260	$46,200	$56,670	3.33	1.06
Security Guards	530	$34,440	$36,470	6.83	0.83
Self-Enrichment Teachers	110	$44,400	$44,760	1.46	0.68
Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks	330	$47,340	$47,300	4.22	0.80
Shuttle Drivers and Chauffeurs	100	$27,760	$31,290	1.29	0.81
Social and Community Service Managers	70	$70,070	$73,160	0.96	0.71
Social and Human Service Assistants	180	$30,680	$33,630	2.28	0.81
Social Scientists and Related Workers, All Other	50	$83,780	$84,210	0.59	2.48
Social Workers, All Other	40	$90,940	$78,200	0.46	1.13
Special Education Teachers, Kindergarten and Elementary School	250	$52,370	$53,660	3.26	1.94
Special Education Teachers, Middle School	60	$52,310	$54,040	0.73	1.20
Special Education Teachers, Secondary School	220	$49,030	$53,980	2.83	2.68
Speech-Language Pathologists	160	$84,880	$88,090	2.03	1.72
Stockers and Order Fillers	1,300	$31,070	$33,370	16.71	0.92
Substance Abuse, Behavioral Disorder, and Mental Health Counselors	220	$36,350	$43,910	2.89	0.91
Surgical Technologists	60	$50,690	$52,190	0.74	0.98
Surveyors	40	$62,680	$72,460	0.46	1.42
Switchboard Operators, Including Answering Service	30	$31,750	$32,150	0.42	1.91
Teachers and Instructors, All Other	90	$60,370	$60,700	1.10	1.50
Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary	970	$23,040	$24,370	12.53	1.37
Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers	100	$84,500	$73,340	1.25	1.38
Tellers	290	$28,880	$31,810	3.77	1.78
Therapists, All Other	40	$81,990	$81,990	0.46	3.18
Training and Development Specialists	100	$51,100	$53,050	1.34	0.45
Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers	70	$79,680	$89,870	0.92	0.64
Veterinary Assistants and Laboratory Animal Caretakers	30	$28,100	$27,680	0.40	0.49
Veterinary Technologists and Technicians	60	$29,450	$31,520	0.81	0.97
Waiters and Waitresses	900	$15,080	$20,890	11.61	0.79
Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant and System Operators	190	$41,740	$43,560	2.40	2.91
Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and Brazers	220	$59,510	$58,250	2.89	1.08
Woodworkers, All Other	200	$46,550	$47,340	2.56	72.43
Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing	220	$45,600	$47,780	2.86	7.23

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025, metropolitan area estimates (cross-industry, all ownerships). Wages are pay for all workers in an occupation in this area, not any one person or employer; a dash means BLS does not publish the figure (often to protect privacy or because the estimate is unreliable), and “or more” marks a wage at or above BLS’s top reporting limit. Concentration is the BLS location quotient: the occupation's share of jobs in this area divided by its share nationally (1.00 = the same share as the U.S.; above 1.00 = a larger share); it says nothing about pay or openings. Jobs per 1,000 is the occupation's jobs per 1,000 jobs of all kinds in this area. Occupations that BLS reports only as hourly wages are not listed, and BLS shows some wages above its top limit as plain numbers while others read “or more”. Occupations are listed alphabetically; click a heading to sort. MajorPays does not rank places or occupations. MajorPays selected and reorganized these figures; the Bureau of Labor Statistics has not approved or endorsed this presentation. MajorPays does not provide advice. See Data sources.

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