Occupations With the Highest Reported Median Wages in Kingsport, TN

439 occupations have a published Bureau of Labor Statistics median wage in Kingsport, TN for 2025. Rows are ordered by reported annual median wage.

Occupations

Occupation	Median annual wage	Employment	Salary page
Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks	$48,360	500	View salary detail
Carpenters	$48,340	390	View salary detail
Highway Maintenance Workers	$48,310	140	View salary detail
Medical Equipment Preparers	$48,050	80	View salary detail
Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents	$47,760	250	View salary detail
Textile Winding, Twisting, and Drawing Out Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders	$47,750	250	View salary detail
Glass Blowers, Molders, Benders, and Finishers	$47,720	160	View salary detail
Molders, Shapers, and Casters, Except Metal and Plastic	$47,720	160	View salary detail
Stone Cutters and Carvers, Manufacturing	$47,720	160	View salary detail
Potters, Manufacturing	$47,720	160	View salary detail
Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant and System Operators	$47,560	140	View salary detail
Financial Specialists, All Other	$47,530	80	View salary detail
Fraud Examiners, Investigators and Analysts	$47,530	80	View salary detail
Financial Quantitative Analysts	$47,530	80	View salary detail
Meeting, Convention, and Event Planners	$47,380	60	View salary detail
Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers	$47,160	650	View salary detail
Paramedics	$47,060	160	View salary detail
Insurance Sales Agents	$46,830	210	View salary detail
Real Estate Sales Agents	$46,670	60	View salary detail
Maintenance and Repair Workers, General	$46,520	1,430	View salary detail
Dispatchers, Except Police, Fire, and Ambulance	$46,280	140	View salary detail
Automotive Body and Related Repairers	$46,150	120	View salary detail
Health Technologists and Technicians, All Other	$46,110	40	View salary detail
Patient Representatives	$46,110	40	View salary detail
Neurodiagnostic Technologists	$46,110	40	View salary detail
Ophthalmic Medical Technologists	$46,110	40	View salary detail
Mixing and Blending Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders	$46,080	90	View salary detail
Geothermal Technicians	$46,060	130	View salary detail
Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers, All Other	$46,060	130	View salary detail
Insurance Claims and Policy Processing Clerks	$46,050	40	View salary detail
Weighers, Measurers, Checkers, and Samplers, Recordkeeping	$46,020	60	View salary detail
Medical Records Specialists	$45,830	120	View salary detail
Editors	$45,700	30	View salary detail
Drywall and Ceiling Tile Installers	$45,670	40	View salary detail
Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks	$45,670	1,170	View salary detail
Human Resources Assistants, Except Payroll and Timekeeping	$45,660	100	View salary detail
Civil Engineering Technologists and Technicians	$45,650	80	View salary detail
Morticians, Undertakers, and Funeral Arrangers	$45,440	50	View salary detail
Coating, Painting, and Spraying Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders	$45,440	250	View salary detail
Web and Digital Interface Designers	$45,430	50	View salary detail
Video Game Designers	$45,430	50	View salary detail
First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers	$45,410	1,130	View salary detail
Construction Laborers	$45,370	1,430	View salary detail
Advertising Sales Agents	$45,350	60	View salary detail
Real Estate Brokers	$45,250	40	View salary detail
Dental Assistants	$45,110	320	View salary detail
Mental Health and Substance Abuse Social Workers	$44,950	100	View salary detail
Loan Interviewers and Clerks	$44,790	110	View salary detail
Medical Transcriptionists	$44,790	50	View salary detail
Prepress Technicians and Workers	$44,730	50	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.