Occupations With the Highest Reported Median Wages in Charleston, WV

423 occupations have a published Bureau of Labor Statistics median wage in Charleston, WV for 2025. Rows are ordered by reported annual median wage.

Occupations

Occupation	Median annual wage	Employment	Salary page
Health Education Specialists	$80,850	50	View salary detail
Critical Care Nurses	$80,230	4,320	View salary detail
Acute Care Nurses	$80,230	4,320	View salary detail
Clinical Nurse Specialists	$80,230	4,320	View salary detail
Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurses	$80,230	4,320	View salary detail
Registered Nurses	$80,230	4,320	View salary detail
Control and Valve Installers and Repairers, Except Mechanical Door	$80,130	80	View salary detail
Business Intelligence Analysts	$79,860	100	View salary detail
Clinical Data Managers	$79,860	100	View salary detail
Data Scientists	$79,860	100	View salary detail
Radiologic Technologists and Technicians	$79,570	320	View salary detail
Solar Energy Installation Managers	$79,420	570	View salary detail
First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers	$79,420	570	View salary detail
Cost Estimators	$79,300	110	View salary detail
Construction Managers	$79,050	190	View salary detail
Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists	$78,840	—	View salary detail
Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers	$78,530	60	View salary detail
Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary	$78,260	190	View salary detail
Education Administrators, Postsecondary	$77,810	140	View salary detail
First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives	$77,780	90	View salary detail
Chemical Equipment Operators and Tenders	$77,670	280	View salary detail
Administrative Services Managers	$77,520	530	View salary detail
Diagnostic Medical Sonographers	$75,900	160	View salary detail
Climate Change Policy Analysts	$74,090	60	View salary detail
Environmental Scientists and Specialists, Including Health	$74,090	60	View salary detail
Industrial Ecologists	$74,090	60	View salary detail
Environmental Restoration Planners	$74,090	60	View salary detail
Gas Compressor and Gas Pumping Station Operators	$73,080	30	View salary detail
Poets, Lyricists and Creative Writers	$72,340	30	View salary detail
Writers and Authors	$72,340	30	View salary detail
First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers	$72,190	640	View salary detail
Network and Computer Systems Administrators	$72,040	280	View salary detail
Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Commercial and Industrial Equipment	$71,640	40	View salary detail
Multiple Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic	$71,470	90	View salary detail
Social and Community Service Managers	$70,930	160	View salary detail
Database Administrators	$70,280	60	View salary detail
Instructional Coordinators	$68,990	130	View salary detail
Respiratory Therapists	$68,670	220	View salary detail
Speech-Language Pathologists	$68,510	110	View salary detail
Sheet Metal Workers	$68,000	80	View salary detail
School Psychologists	$67,860	40	View salary detail
Clinical and Counseling Psychologists	$66,620	180	View salary detail
Accountants and Auditors	$66,560	890	View salary detail
Logistics Engineers	$66,300	100	View salary detail
Logisticians	$66,300	100	View salary detail
Logistics Analysts	$66,300	100	View salary detail
Financial and Investment Analysts	$66,230	140	View salary detail
Dental Hygienists	$65,520	260	View salary detail
Operations Research Analysts	$65,440	80	View salary detail
Continuous Mining Machine Operators	$65,280	70	View salary detail

Career and skills data: O*NET (onetcenter.org). Salary and employment data: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS, 2025 (bls.gov/oes). Figures are published survey estimates, not real-time market data.