Logging Workers, All Other salary

SOC 45-4029 · BLS OEWS May 2025

Median

$50,840

per year, nationally

Middle half

$41,900–$61,450

25th to 75th percentile

Employed

1,700

in the U.S.

Growth 2024–34

-4.7%

400 openings/yr

What the range looks like

A single median hides most of what a job pays. The bar below is the full national range: the wash spans the 10th to 90th percentile, the solid bar is the middle half, and the tick is the median.

$36,380$69,350

10th: $36,380
25th: $41,900
Median: $50,840
75th: $61,450
90th: $69,350

Getting in

Typical education to enter: High school diploma or equivalent
Related work experience: None
On-the-job training: Moderate-term on-the-job training

Entry requirements describe what is typical, not mandatory. Source: BLS Employment Projections, 2024–34.

Where logging workers, all other earn the most

Nominal pay and pay adjusted for local prices rank states differently — a high-wage state with high costs can be worse off in real terms than a middling one. Switch between the two below.

The median wage as published, before local prices are taken into account.

#	State	Median	Cost of living	Employed	Concentrationvs. national
1	Louisiana	$80,930	88.2	30	1.51×
2	Washington	$67,650	107.0	150	3.78×
3	Oregon	$57,890	103.4	590	27.21×
4	Michigan	$54,140	96.2	—	—
5	North Carolina	$48,460	94.3	—	—
6	California	$47,490	110.7	270	1.37×
7	Virginia	$42,910	101.1	80	1.79×
8	West Virginia	$41,790	89.5	—	—
9	Mississippi	$37,370	87.0	140	10.74×
10	Georgia	$34,870	96.3	80	1.58×

Cost of living is the BEA regional price parity for all items, where 100 is the national average. Concentration is the BLS location quotient: how much more of the local workforce does this job than the national average, so 2.00× means twice the national share. It is often the reason wages differ — a place that concentrates an occupation has the employers and the competition for it. States where logging workers, all other wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

Best paying metro areas for logging workers, all other

The 5 highest-paying metros with a published estimate. BLS suppresses roughly half of all occupation-by-metro cells, so a metro absent here has no local figure rather than a low one.

The median wage as published, before local prices are taken into account.

#	Metro area	Median	Cost of living	Employed	Concentrationvs. national
1	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA	$58,840	105.4	50	4.03×
2	Albany, OR	$58,420	102.1	70	132.01×
3	Corvallis, OR	$57,040	104.0	30	75.94×
4	Salem, OR	$55,790	103.6	40	20.51×
5	Eugene-Springfield, OR	$50,090	101.6	90	54.99×

Cost of living is the BEA regional price parity for all items, where 100 is the national average. Concentration is the BLS location quotient: how much more of the local workforce does this job than the national average, so 2.00× means twice the national share. It is often the reason wages differ — a place that concentrates an occupation has the employers and the competition for it. Metro areas where logging workers, all other wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

Similar occupations

Other jobs in the same field, with what each pays nationally.