Northern West Virginia nonmetropolitan area

Highest-Paying Occupations in Northern West Virginia nonmetropolitan area

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025Northern West Virginia nonmetropolitan area

Figures describe the Northern West Virginia nonmetropolitan area, a BLS-defined region outside metropolitan areas — not a single city or town. Occupations are ranked by published median annual wage; occupations where BLS suppressed the annual median or publishes only hourly wages are not ranked (4 such occupations here).

Top 25 of 392 occupations

Occupations with the highest published median annual wages in the Northern West Virginia nonmetropolitan area, May 2025
#	Occupation	Median annual	Median hourly	Employment
1	Emergency Medicine Physicians	$478,600	$230.10	50
2	Nurse Anesthetists	$278,960	$134.12	60
3	Physicians, All Other	$272,040	$130.79	290
4	Family Medicine Physicians	$269,140	$129.39	Not published
5	Computer Hardware Engineers	$153,570	$73.83	60
6	Purchasing Managers	$149,430	$71.84	40
7	Dentists, General	$146,260	$70.32	70
8	Marketing Managers	$140,410	$67.51	40
9	Chief Executives	$139,830	$67.23	320
10	Architectural and Engineering Managers	$136,320	$65.54	170
11	Pharmacists	$136,180	$65.47	460
12	Computer and Information Systems Managers	$135,920	$65.35	150
13	Physician Assistants	$131,260	$63.11	200
14	Veterinarians	$126,180	$60.66	90
15	Nurse Practitioners	$123,410	$59.33	390
16	Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products	$118,920	$57.17	60
17	Human Resources Managers	$117,930	$56.70	80
18	Managers, All Other	$116,390	$55.96	430
19	Software Developers	$116,140	$55.84	520
20	First-Line Supervisors of Non-Retail Sales Workers	$115,870	$55.71	120
21	Engineers, All Other	$110,250	$53.01	70
22	Electrical Engineers	$109,470	$52.63	150
23	Speech-Language Pathologists	$107,880	$51.87	240
24	Industrial Production Managers	$107,000	$51.44	360
25	Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers	$106,340	$51.13	110

The full list of every published occupation here is on the Northern West Virginia nonmetropolitan area overview.

About this data. Estimates are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program, May 2025 release, retrieved from bls.gov/oes/tables.htm on July 24, 2026. OEWS estimates describe metropolitan/nonmetropolitan areas and states — not city limits — and are not designed for year-over-year comparisons. See BLS methodology, our plain-English methodology, and sources. CitySalaryData is independent and not affiliated with BLS.