The Baton Rouge, LA all-occupations median was 4.5% below the U.S. all-occupations median in the same release. Cashiers had the largest published employment estimate among the 30 occupation rows shown on this hub, at 9,130.
Among those high-employment rows, Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and Brazers had the highest published location quotient at 3.36. A location quotient above 1.00 means a larger share of local employment than the national share; it does not measure job quality or future demand.
Occupation detail
Largest published occupations in Baton Rouge, LA
Sorted by published employment. Open a row for its local distribution, national comparison, and jobs.
Largest published occupation estimates by employment
Six high-employment rows from the bounded area summary. The table below keeps each full title and published field.
Cashiers: 9,130 jobs. Retail Salespersons: 9,020 jobs. Laborers and Freight,...: 8,760 jobs. Fast Food and Counter...: 8,490 jobs. Registered Nurses: 8,290 jobs. General and Operation...: 8,230 jobs.
BEA's 2024 all-items price index for Baton Rouge, LA was 90.8, or 9.2% below the national price level. Its housing index was 74.2.
National-price-dollar proxy
$53,657
WageScope divides the published all occupations median by the BEA all-items index. This is a price-level comparison, not take-home pay, a personal budget, or a quality-of-life score.
Wage period: BLS May 2025. Price period: BEA 2024. The releases describe different periods and are shown separately.
Price level in Baton Rouge, LA; U.S. = 100
U.S. baseline: 100.0. All items: 90.8. Housing: 74.2.
Read the all-jobs wage, role mix, local job shares, price-level context, and survey limits as separate facts. Every value stays tied to BLS area 12940.
Questions, answered
Wage data for Baton Rouge, LA: common questions
What is the all-occupations median wage in Baton Rouge, LA?
The May 2025 BLS OEWS release published an all-occupations median of $48,710 per year in Baton Rouge, LA. It combines covered wage and salary jobs and is not a median for every individual occupation.
How many wage and salary jobs does BLS estimate in Baton Rouge, LA?
BLS published an all-occupations employment estimate of 409,690 jobs for Baton Rouge, LA. It is a survey estimate, not a current opening count.
What is the largest detailed occupation shown for Baton Rouge, LA?
Cashiers is the largest detailed occupation in the bounded table on this page, with 9,130 estimated jobs and a published median of $27,110 per year.
Does the Baton Rouge, LA wage data adjust for local prices?
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What the all-jobs median says about Baton Rouge, LA
The May 2025 BLS OEWS estimate puts the all-occupations median in Baton Rouge, LA at $48,710 per year. This is the middle wage across covered wage and salary jobs in the area. It is not the median for each job title. It is not one worker's pay. Use an occupation page when you need a role-level answer.
BLS lists 409,690 covered jobs in Baton Rouge, LA. The all-occupations mean is $61,230 per year. Mean means add the wage values and split the total by the number of jobs behind the estimate. The median and mean can differ because the local wage mix is not even.
Baton Rouge, LA's $48,710 all-occupations median is 4.5% below the U.S. all-occupations median of $50,980 on the same published median. This is a wage check on the same source period. It does not add local price levels, taxes, hours, benefits, or household needs.
Baton Rouge, LA ranks 157 of 393 among metro areas with a published annual all-occupations median. WageScope keeps the map type the same. It does not place a state, metro, and nonmetro row in one rank. The rank uses the May 2025 BLS median only.
A rank is a place in a sorted list. It is not a score. It does not say a place is good or bad. It does not show the size of the job base. Baton Rouge, LA has 409,690 covered jobs, while another row near it can have a very different count.
The nearby rank rows give context without turning the list into a league table. Small gaps can move a place by several spots. A later BLS release can also change the order. Read the wage gap and the source date beside the rank. Do not use rank alone to make a move.
154. Wausau, WI has an all-occupations median of $48,790 per year and 69,530 covered jobs. Its wage gap from Baton Rouge, LA is $80.
155. Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN has an all-occupations median of $48,780 per year and 102,200 covered jobs. Its wage gap from Baton Rouge, LA is $70.
156. Dubuque, IA has an all-occupations median of $48,750 per year and 58,470 covered jobs. Its wage gap from Baton Rouge, LA is $40.
158. Salisbury, MD has an all-occupations median of $48,710 per year and 53,770 covered jobs. Its wage gap from Baton Rouge, LA is $0.
159. Santa Fe, NM has an all-occupations median of $48,710 per year and 61,770 covered jobs. Its wage gap from Baton Rouge, LA is $0.
160. Battle Creek, MI has an all-occupations median of $48,690 per year and 54,600 covered jobs. Its wage gap from Baton Rouge, LA is $20.
The largest detailed occupations shown for Baton Rouge, LA
The role list is sorted by the BLS employment estimate. It shows detailed occupations from the bounded source table for Baton Rouge, LA. The first row, Cashiers, has 9,130 estimated jobs. Its median is $27,110 per year.
Large roles shape the all-occupations wage mix, but they do not set it by themselves. A role with many jobs and a lower wage can pull the middle one way. A smaller role with a higher wage can move the mean. The all-occupations row is based on the whole covered job mix, not just the occupations shown in this bounded list.
Employment here means wage and salary jobs in the BLS survey scope. It does not mean people looking for work. It does not mean openings. It does not show how fast a role is changing. Use the current job cards only to inspect dated employer-title matches. Keep that view apart from this May 2025 job count.
1. Cashiers has 9,130 estimated jobs in Baton Rouge, LA. Its published median is $27,110 per year. Its location quotient is 1.12.
2. Retail Salespersons has 9,020 estimated jobs in Baton Rouge, LA. Its published median is $30,070 per year. Its location quotient is 0.88.
3. Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand has 8,760 estimated jobs in Baton Rouge, LA. Its published median is $36,450 per year. Its location quotient is 1.13.
Role pay range
How published medians differ inside Baton Rouge, LA
The detailed roles shown for Baton Rouge, LA do not share one pay level. General and Operations Managers has the highest published median in this bounded role set, at $107,140 per year. That does not make it the highest-paid role in every job or in every part of the area.
The list keeps each official SOC title tied to its own wage row. It does not blend fields, levels, or job posts. A role median can be above the $48,710 all-occupations median even when the role has few jobs. A large role can sit below that mark. Pay and job count answer different questions.
Use a role's own WageScope page before you compare places. That page shows the national spread, the same SOC code across areas, and the source limits. The area list is a starting map. It is not enough to set a pay target for one person or one listing.
1. General and Operations Managers has a published median of $107,140 per year in Baton Rouge, LA. BLS lists 8,230 jobs. Its local share is 0.89 times the national share.
2. Managers, All Other has a published median of $105,340 per year in Baton Rouge, LA. BLS lists 3,300 jobs. Its local share is 2.02 times the national share.
3. Registered Nurses has a published median of $81,130 per year in Baton Rouge, LA. BLS lists 8,290 jobs. Its local share is 0.93 times the national share.
Local share
Roles with a larger local share in Baton Rouge, LA
Location quotient compares a role's share of jobs in Baton Rouge, LA with that role's share across the nation. A value of 1 means the shares match. A value above 1 means the role takes a larger share of local jobs. A value below 1 means the share is smaller. The value does not show growth or open jobs.
Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and Brazers has the highest published location quotient in this bounded set, at 3.36. The same row has 3,690 jobs and a median of $78,170 per year. Read all three fields together.
A high share can appear in a small job base. A large job count can appear with a share near 1. A high median can appear in either case. The three measures are not a single score. They help you ask three clear questions: how many jobs, how common the role is in the local mix, and what wage BLS published.
1. Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and Brazers has a location quotient of 3.36 in Baton Rouge, LA. BLS lists 3,690 jobs and a median of $78,170 per year.
2. Food Preparation Workers has a location quotient of 2.46 in Baton Rouge, LA. BLS lists 5,800 jobs and a median of $24,450 per year.
3. First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers has a location quotient of 2.19 in Baton Rouge, LA. BLS lists 4,680 jobs and a median of $78,870 per year.
Separate price view
What the BEA price level adds for Baton Rouge, LA
BEA's 2024 all-items price index for Baton Rouge, LA is 90.8. The U.S. level is 100. The local all-items level is 9.2% below that mark. This is a broad price comparison. It is not a personal budget.
The housing index is 74.2. The goods index is 93.7. Utilities are 71.2. Other services are 95.7. These parts can move in different ways. The all-items number joins them with BEA's method; WageScope does not pick its own weights.
The BLS wage period is May 2025. The BEA price period is 2024. WageScope shows both dates because the clocks differ. It can divide a wage by the all-items index for a clear national-price-dollar proxy. It does not call that result take-home pay, spending power for one home, or a place score.
The all-occupations employment RSE for Baton Rouge, LA is 0%. The mean-wage RSE is 0.4%. RSE means relative standard error. It is a survey precision flag. A smaller value often means less sampling uncertainty. It is not an error bar for one person's wage.
The employment RSE belongs to the 409,690 job estimate. The mean-wage RSE belongs to the all-occupations mean. WageScope does not attach either field to a detailed role, the median, or a percentile. Each role row has its own published care marks when BLS supplies them.
Some BLS values are blank or top coded. Blank does not mean zero. A top code means the value is at least the shown bound. WageScope keeps those states in the role pages and tables. It does not fill a missing value from a peer role, past year, or nearby place.
Use Baton Rouge, LA as a map, then choose one occupation
Start with the role that matches the work you mean. Official titles can sound broad. Open the role page and check its SOC code. Then compare the Baton Rouge, LA row with the U.S. row on the same annual or hourly metric. Read the job count and location quotient beside the wage. Add the BEA price level only when the exact row is present.
Next, look at the wage spread. The median shows the middle. The 10th, 25th, 75th, and 90th percentiles show more of the range. A posted job range can be compared with those marks as context, but it stays employer evidence. It never becomes part of the BLS estimate.
If the role-place row is missing, use the national role page or choose another official area. Do not guess. A clean missing state is more useful than a made-up number. It tells you what the source can and cannot answer.
Move from Baton Rouge, LA wage data to one checked job
The area page does not treat every local job as the same. Choose an occupation first. WageScope can then use a strict employer-title match for that role. A place filter is used only when the BLS area has an exact approved match in the public place list. If that match is not safe, the page says so.
Each shown job keeps the employer, place, source, and seen date. The cards can change as the public catalog changes. They do not count toward this page's stable content gate. They do not change Baton Rouge, LA's $48,710 all-occupations median. They do not prove that the employer uses the BLS title.
Open a listing before you tailor. Use facts from your own work that you can support. A wage value is not a skill, result, or duty. MeritLog can help shape confirmed work for the listing you chose. The public area page does not save the role, listing, place, or résumé on load.
The page does not say what one person in Baton Rouge, LA earns. It does not promise a wage, job, move, or result. It does not call the all-occupations median a role wage. It does not turn rank 157 of 393 into a place score. It does not say why wages differ.
The BLS job count leaves out people who work for themselves and other work outside the survey scope. The current job cards are a separate set of public listings. Neither source shows all work. Neither source tells you the chance of getting hired. A missing value stays missing.
Use the page for a narrow task. See the May 2025 local wage picture. Choose one official occupation. Compare the same field across like places. Add the separate 2024 price level when it exists. Read a current employer-title match. Then make a résumé choice from work facts you have confirmed.
No. BLS wage estimates are nominal. Where an exact BEA Regional Price Parity row exists, WageScope shows that price-level context separately and labels its source period.
Are MeritLog job listings part of the government wage estimate?
No. Eligible live listings remain separate from BLS statistics. Their locations and posted pay do not change the official area or occupation rows.
4. Fast Food and Counter Workers has 8,490 estimated jobs in Baton Rouge, LA. Its published median is $23,650 per year. Its location quotient is 0.84.
5. Registered Nurses has 8,290 estimated jobs in Baton Rouge, LA. Its published median is $81,130 per year. Its location quotient is 0.93.
6. General and Operations Managers has 8,230 estimated jobs in Baton Rouge, LA. Its published median is $107,140 per year. Its location quotient is 0.89.
7. Home Health and Personal Care Aides has 7,840 estimated jobs in Baton Rouge, LA. Its published median is $23,040 per year. Its location quotient is 0.69.
8. Waiters and Waitresses has 6,650 estimated jobs in Baton Rouge, LA. Its published median is $15,080 per year. Its location quotient is 1.11.
4. First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers has a published median of $78,870 per year in Baton Rouge, LA. BLS lists 4,680 jobs. Its local share is 2.19 times the national share.
5. Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and Brazers has a published median of $78,170 per year in Baton Rouge, LA. BLS lists 3,690 jobs. Its local share is 3.36 times the national share.
6. Accountants and Auditors has a published median of $73,070 per year in Baton Rouge, LA. BLS lists 3,410 jobs. Its local share is 0.89 times the national share.
7. Electricians has a published median of $65,330 per year in Baton Rouge, LA. BLS lists 3,320 jobs. Its local share is 1.67 times the national share.
8. Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scientific Products has a published median of $64,540 per year in Baton Rouge, LA. BLS lists 3,910 jobs. Its local share is 1.2 times the national share.
4. Construction Laborers has a location quotient of 2.18 in Baton Rouge, LA. BLS lists 6,300 jobs and a median of $38,650 per year.
5. Managers, All Other has a location quotient of 2.02 in Baton Rouge, LA. BLS lists 3,300 jobs and a median of $105,340 per year.
6. Carpenters has a location quotient of 1.98 in Baton Rouge, LA. BLS lists 3,490 jobs and a median of $55,630 per year.
7. Electricians has a location quotient of 1.67 in Baton Rouge, LA. BLS lists 3,320 jobs and a median of $65,330 per year.
8. Business Operations Specialists, All Other has a location quotient of 1.64 in Baton Rouge, LA. BLS lists 4,700 jobs and a median of $61,110 per year.
