Research
Every job page on this site answers one question: what does this job pay, and what should you do about it. These pieces are the longer arguments behind those answers — what the wage data shows once you stack occupations against each other, and where the story about AI and pay stops matching the numbers.
Average Salary Statistics 2026: US Pay in Numbers
Average and median salary statistics for 824 US occupations, from the BLS OEWS May 2025 release: the distribution and pay by major group.
Highest-Paying Jobs Statistics 2026
Statistics on the highest-paying US jobs: the top 25 occupations by median wage and by 90th-percentile wage, from the BLS OEWS May 2025 release.
Lowest-Paying Jobs Statistics 2026
Statistics on the lowest-paying US jobs: the 25 occupations with the lowest median wages in the BLS OEWS May 2025 release, and how many pay under $40,000.
Nurse Salary Statistics 2026
Nurse salary statistics for the US: registered nurse, nurse practitioner, anesthetist, LPN and aide pay from the BLS OEWS May 2025 release.
Salary by State Statistics 2026
Salary by state statistics: which state pays best for each of 824 US occupations, and how a 500-employee floor changes the answer for 389 of them.
Teacher Salary Statistics 2026
Teacher salary statistics for the US: elementary, middle, secondary, preschool and postsecondary pay from the BLS OEWS May 2025 release.
Tech Salary Statistics 2026
Tech salary statistics for the US: software developer, data scientist and IT pay across the 21 computer occupations in the BLS OEWS May 2025 release.
Trades Salary Statistics 2026: Skilled Trade Pay
Skilled trades salary statistics for the US: electrician, plumber and mechanic pay across 111 construction and repair occupations, BLS OEWS May 2025.
The data underneath
All of it is free to read and free to quote. The best-paying state for every occupation is published as an open CC BY 4.0 dataset, the statistics pages compute the aggregates, and the JSON API returns the same figures without the markup.