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Health Education Specialists · SOC 21-1091

Health Education Specialists Salary in the Appleton Metro Area

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025Appleton, WI metro area

Figures describe the Appleton, WI metropolitan statistical area as defined by BLS/OMB — the whole multi-county metro region, not Appleton city limits.

Median annual wage$76,170
Median hourly wage$36.62

Health Education Specialists in the Appleton, WI metro area earned a median of $76,170 per year ($36.62 per hour) as of the May 2025 BLS OEWS estimates. Pay ranged from $39,970 at the 10th percentile to $96,980 at the 90th. BLS estimates 40 people work in this occupation in the area.

Pay distribution

Half of Health Education Specialists in the Appleton metro area earn more than $76,170 per year, half earn less; the middle half earn between $62,920 and $86,880.

Wage percentiles (BLS OEWS)
Wage10th25thMedian75th90th
Annual$39,970$62,920$76,170$86,880$96,980
Hourly$19.22$30.25$36.62$41.77$46.63

A percentile is a cut point: 25% of workers in this occupation and area earn less than the 25th-percentile wage. The median is the 50th percentile — half earn less, half earn more.

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How this area compares

  • Appleton metro areathis metro area
    $76,170
  • Wisconsinstate (WI)
    $74,040
  • United Statesnational
    $64,070

Bars span the 25th–75th percentile (the middle half of workers); the tick marks the median.

The median here is +3% vs Wisconsin overall and +19% vs the U.S. median for this occupation.

Compare with other areas

Where this metro sits nationally

$38,670$67,310$95,950$124,590Panama City-Panama City Beach, FL — $38,670Evansville, IN — $39,150San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR — $39,680Midland, MI — $41,910Mayaguez, PR — $41,980Ann Arbor, MI — $43,510Ocala, FL — $44,280Corpus Christi, TX — $46,210Tallahassee, FL — $46,810Bozeman, MT — $47,130Chattanooga, TN-GA — $47,420Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN — $48,040Brownsville-Harlingen, TX — $48,490Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux, LA — $48,530Gainesville, FL — $48,670Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY — $49,570Memphis, TN-MS-AR — $49,630Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL — $49,900Athens-Clarke County, GA — $49,990Youngstown-Warren, OH — $50,040Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR — $50,170Jackson, MS — $50,420El Paso, TX — $50,520Winston-Salem, NC — $50,520Binghamton, NY — $50,950Port St. Lucie, FL — $51,100Billings, MT — $51,200Fayetteville, NC — $51,490Springfield, MO — $51,630Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC — $51,980Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL — $52,170Kingston, NY — $52,190Utica-Rome, NY — $52,530Kalamazoo-Portage, MI — $52,630College Station-Bryan, TX — $52,900Wichita Falls, TX — $53,060North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL — $53,560San Angelo, TX — $53,640Missoula, MT — $53,840Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC — $54,070Jefferson City, MO — $54,160Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL — $54,600Greensboro-High Point, NC — $54,600Springfield, MA — $54,740Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL — $55,250Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL — $55,430Lincoln, NE — $55,630Ogden, UT — $55,650Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI — $55,660McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX — $55,750Las Cruces, NM — $55,840Jacksonville, FL — $55,870Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL — $55,910Canton-Massillon, OH — $55,940Amherst Town-Northampton, MA — $56,030Columbus, GA-AL — $56,070Wilmington, NC — $56,350Abilene, TX — $56,530Baton Rouge, LA — $56,600Barnstable Town, MA — $56,690St. Louis, MO-IL — $57,050Greenville, NC — $57,510Asheville, NC — $57,620Idaho Falls, ID — $57,770Sioux Falls, SD-MN — $57,840Salisbury, MD — $58,020Columbia, MO — $58,300Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN — $58,300Tuscaloosa, AL — $58,300Bangor, ME — $58,370Fargo, ND-MN — $58,410Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC — $58,450Lexington-Fayette, KY — $58,450Wichita, KS — $58,650Traverse City, MI — $58,700Fresno, CA — $58,840Pittsfield, MA — $58,950Rochester, NY — $59,000Chico, CA — $59,120Lewiston-Auburn, ME — $59,210Lubbock, TX — $59,210Worcester, MA — $59,290Bakersfield-Delano, CA — $59,350Syracuse, NY — $59,360Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL — $59,380Portland-South Portland, ME — $59,410Santa Fe, NM — $59,430Bloomington, IN — $59,520San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX — $59,580Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI — $59,640South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI — $59,640Raleigh-Cary, NC — $59,810Tucson, AZ — $59,860Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN — $59,990Boulder, CO — $60,070Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN — $60,120Mobile, AL — $60,180Salt Lake City-Murray, UT — $60,270Gulfport-Biloxi, MS — $60,310Toledo, OH — $60,320Waco, TX — $60,320Ithaca, NY — $60,420Slidell-Mandeville-Covington, LA — $60,600Rapid City, SD — $60,770New Orleans-Metairie, LA — $60,980Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA — $61,190Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA — $61,390Fort Wayne, IN — $61,460San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA — $61,660Modesto, CA — $61,670Harrisonburg, VA — $61,680Flint, MI — $61,740Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL — $61,790Provo-Orem-Lehi, UT — $61,940Visalia, CA — $62,090Elkhart-Goshen, IN — $62,240Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH — $62,260Topeka, KS — $62,340Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA — $62,380Stockton-Lodi, CA — $62,390San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA — $62,500Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA — $62,510Salinas, CA — $62,760Savannah, GA — $62,950Columbia, SC — $62,960Kansas City, MO-KS — $62,990La Crosse-Onalaska, WI-MN — $63,220Morgantown, WV — $63,500Omaha, NE-IA — $63,600Albuquerque, NM — $63,610Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV — $63,660Warner Robins, GA — $63,690Urban Honolulu, HI — $63,740Tulsa, OK — $63,820Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH — $63,890Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX — $64,050New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ — $64,110Salem, OR — $64,270Knoxville, TN — $64,320Eau Claire, WI — $64,350Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD — $64,900Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ — $64,980Oklahoma City, OK — $65,000Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA — $65,000Gainesville, GA — $65,100Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA — $65,230Birmingham, AL — $65,540New Haven, CT — $65,650Duluth, MN-WI — $65,820Columbus, OH — $66,370Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ — $66,750Erie, PA — $67,600Providence-Warwick, RI-MA — $67,630Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC — $67,710Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN — $67,720Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH — $68,160Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY — $68,170Richmond, VA — $68,250Burlington-South Burlington, VT — $68,310Akron, OH — $68,350Boise City, ID — $68,540Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY — $69,060Redding, CA — $69,640Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN — $70,150Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT — $70,570Bend, OR — $70,660Manchester-Nashua, NH — $70,750Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX — $71,340Montgomery, AL — $71,790Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA — $71,860Springfield, IL — $71,990Green Bay, WI — $72,030Macon-Bibb County, GA — $72,070Anchorage, AK — $72,400Cleveland, OH — $72,620Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT — $72,720Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR — $73,540Greeley, CO — $73,840Colorado Springs, CO — $73,990Reno, NV — $74,590Reading, PA — $74,640Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD — $75,220Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX — $75,350Pittsburgh, PA — $75,480Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA — $75,500Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA — $75,750San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA — $75,810Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI — $75,910Appleton, WI — $76,170Durham-Chapel Hill, NC — $76,380Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC — $76,400Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA — $76,920Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV — $77,570York-Hanover, PA — $77,610Charleston-North Charleston, SC — $77,740Auburn-Opelika, AL — $77,950Huntsville, AL — $78,400Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, WA — $78,460Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA — $78,640Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA — $78,670Merced, CA — $79,830Madison, WI — $79,910Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO — $80,060Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ — $80,820Killeen-Temple, TX — $80,840Charleston, WV — $80,850Rochester, MN — $80,960Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI — $80,990Vallejo, CA — $81,630St. Cloud, MN — $83,200Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA — $84,070Lancaster, PA — $87,190Corvallis, OR — $87,370Eugene-Springfield, OR — $94,870San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA — $99,260Trenton-Princeton, NJ — $102,680Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA — $112,450Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV — $124,590

Each dot is one metro area with a published median — hover any dot for the name and figure. Metros without published estimates are not drawn.

The Appleton metro area has the 30th-highest published median for this occupation among the 218 metro areas where BLS publishes it. Higher medians often track higher living costs — this is a pay comparison, not a ranking of where the job is “best”.

Other metro areas in Wisconsin

Metro areas in the same state with published May 2025 medians for health education specialists, highest first. Areas without published estimates are not listed.

  • Appleton metro areathis page
    $76,170
  • Madison metro area
    $79,910
  • Milwaukee metro area
    $75,910
  • Green Bay metro area
    $72,030
  • Eau Claire metro area
    $64,350
  • La Crosse metro area
    $63,220

Bars span the 25th–75th percentile (the middle half of workers); the tick marks the median.

Keep exploring

Other occupations in the same SOC group with published medians here, largest employment first:

Substance Abuse, Behavioral Disorder, and Mental Health Counselors$60,380Social and Human Service Assistants$48,260Child, Family, and School Social Workers$59,840Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors$61,890Healthcare Social Workers$61,680Rehabilitation Counselors$47,620

Highest-paying metro areas for health education specialistss · Highest-paying occupations in Appleton Metro

About this estimate

These figures are survey estimates from the BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program — modeled from employer reports collected over three years and benchmarked to May 2025. They describe what employers in this area currently pay across all industries, not what any individual worker will be offered.

Employment counts wage-and-salary jobs in the occupation (self-employed workers are excluded). Estimates carry sampling error; percentile wages are rounded by BLS. Some values are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality or quality — suppressed values appear here as “not published”, never as zero. Read the full methodology.

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.