EMPLOYMENT AND WAGES BY OCCUPATION

Employment and wages by occupation are the result of the Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) program, which conducts a semiannual survey of wage and salary workers in nonfarm establishments to produce employment and wage estimates annually for over 800 occupations. These estimates are available for the state, three metro areas, two nonmetro areas, and eight planning regions. Employment and wages by occupation can be used to analyze occupational wage rates across markets, develop staffing patterns and occupation projections, and plan for careers.

Last updated April 19, 2024

To pinpoint your area of interest, please review our reference maps:

• metro and nonmetro maps for 2015-2017 data
• metro and nonmetro maps for 2018-current data

  Beginning with the 2018 estimates, OEWS reduced the number of published North Dakota nonmetro areas. The Far West and West Central areas have been combined to form the West North Dakota area and the Far East and East Central areas have been combined to form the East North Dakota area.

• planning region map for 2020-current data