Occupations With the Highest Reported Median Wages in Scranton, PA

555 occupations have a published Bureau of Labor Statistics median wage in Scranton, PA for 2025. Rows are ordered by reported annual median wage.

Occupations

Occupation	Median annual wage	Employment	Salary page
Paralegals and Legal Assistants	$57,600	400	View salary detail
Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers	$57,580	5,210	View salary detail
Food Cooking Machine Operators and Tenders	$57,490	110	View salary detail
Security and Fire Alarm Systems Installers	$56,790	110	View salary detail
Excavating and Loading Machine and Dragline Operators, Surface Mining	$56,480	80	View salary detail
Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel	$56,330	1,070	View salary detail
Industrial Engineering Technologists and Technicians	$56,190	60	View salary detail
Nanotechnology Engineering Technologists and Technicians	$56,190	60	View salary detail
Surveying and Mapping Technicians	$55,900	40	View salary detail
Court Reporters and Simultaneous Captioners	$55,700	40	View salary detail
Social Work Teachers, Postsecondary	$55,570	60	View salary detail
Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks	$55,440	440	View salary detail
Civil Engineering Technologists and Technicians	$55,390	60	View salary detail
Medical Equipment Repairers	$55,370	50	View salary detail
Crushing, Grinding, and Polishing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders	$55,090	40	View salary detail
Remote Sensing Technicians	$55,050	60	View salary detail
Quality Control Analysts	$55,050	60	View salary detail
Life, Physical, and Social Science Technicians, All Other	$55,050	60	View salary detail
Graphic Designers	$54,950	250	View salary detail
Information and Record Clerks, All Other	$54,950	220	View salary detail
Food Science Technicians	$54,570	50	View salary detail
Park Naturalists	$54,250	30	View salary detail
Conservation Scientists	$54,250	30	View salary detail
Range Managers	$54,250	30	View salary detail
Computer User Support Specialists	$54,010	810	View salary detail
Rehabilitation Counselors	$53,940	250	View salary detail
First-Line Supervisors of Protective Service Workers, All Other	$53,750	50	View salary detail
Maintenance Workers, Machinery	$53,710	40	View salary detail
Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers	$53,230	70	View salary detail
Metal Workers and Plastic Workers, All Other	$52,880	140	View salary detail
Film and Video Editors	$52,850	30	View salary detail
Cutting, Punching, and Press Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic	$52,630	750	View salary detail
Public Relations Specialists	$51,730	290	View salary detail
Clergy	$51,670	100	View salary detail
Mechanical Engineering Technologists and Technicians	$51,440	50	View salary detail
Automotive Engineering Technicians	$51,440	50	View salary detail
Welding, Soldering, and Brazing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders	$50,860	40	View salary detail
Directors, Religious Activities and Education	$50,820	90	View salary detail
Audio and Video Technicians	$50,760	70	View salary detail
Real Estate Sales Agents	$50,660	—	View salary detail
Procurement Clerks	$50,500	80	View salary detail
Coating, Painting, and Spraying Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders	$50,450	350	View salary detail
Mixing and Blending Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders	$50,290	190	View salary detail
Education and Childcare Administrators, Preschool and Daycare	$49,990	170	View salary detail
Insurance Sales Agents	$49,880	650	View salary detail
Machinists	$49,850	430	View salary detail
Automotive Body and Related Repairers	$49,850	260	View salary detail
Extruding and Drawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic	$49,840	370	View salary detail
Maintenance and Repair Workers, General	$49,710	2,750	View salary detail
Painters, Construction and Maintenance	$49,690	130	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.