The Virgin Islands (territory) all-occupations median was 15.9% below the U.S. all-occupations median in the same release. Retail Salespersons had the largest published employment estimate among the 30 occupation rows shown on this hub, at 1,300.
Among those high-employment rows, Reservation and Transportation Ticket Agents and Travel Clerks had the highest published location quotient at 12.28. 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 Virgin Islands (territory)
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.
Retail Salespersons: 1,300 jobs. General and Operation...: 1,040 jobs. Security Guards: 1,030 jobs. Fast Food and Counter...: 840 jobs. Cashiers: 770 jobs. Maintenance and Repai...: 700 jobs.
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 78.
Questions, answered
Wage data for Virgin Islands (territory): common questions
What is the all-occupations median wage in Virgin Islands (territory)?
The May 2025 BLS OEWS release published an all-occupations median of $42,870 per year in Virgin Islands (territory). 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 Virgin Islands (territory)?
BLS published an all-occupations employment estimate of 32,090 jobs for Virgin Islands (territory). It is a survey estimate, not a current opening count.
What is the largest detailed occupation shown for Virgin Islands (territory)?
Retail Salespersons is the largest detailed occupation in the bounded table on this page, with 1,300 estimated jobs and a published median of $28,790 per year.
Does the Virgin Islands (territory) wage data adjust for local prices?
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What the all-jobs median says about Virgin Islands (territory)
The May 2025 BLS OEWS estimate puts the all-occupations median in Virgin Islands (territory) at $42,870 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 32,090 covered jobs in Virgin Islands (territory). The all-occupations mean is $52,730 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.
Virgin Islands (territory)'s $42,870 all-occupations median is 15.9% 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.
Where Virgin Islands (territory) sits among states and territories
Virgin Islands (territory) ranks 51 of 54 among states and territories 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. Virgin Islands (territory) has 32,090 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.
48. Louisiana has an all-occupations median of $45,520 per year and 1,934,900 covered jobs. Its wage gap from Virgin Islands (territory) is $2,650.
49. West Virginia has an all-occupations median of $45,300 per year and 701,610 covered jobs. Its wage gap from Virgin Islands (territory) is $2,430.
50. Arkansas has an all-occupations median of $43,630 per year and 1,303,630 covered jobs. Its wage gap from Virgin Islands (territory) is $760.
52. Mississippi has an all-occupations median of $40,120 per year and 1,163,030 covered jobs. Its wage gap from Virgin Islands (territory) is $2,750.
53. Guam (territory) has an all-occupations median of $36,650 per year and 66,600 covered jobs. Its wage gap from Virgin Islands (territory) is $6,220.
54. Puerto Rico has an all-occupations median of $28,680 per year and 938,710 covered jobs. Its wage gap from Virgin Islands (territory) is $14,190.
The largest detailed occupations shown for Virgin Islands (territory)
The role list is sorted by the BLS employment estimate. It shows detailed occupations from the bounded source table for Virgin Islands (territory). The first row, Retail Salespersons, has 1,300 estimated jobs. Its median is $28,790 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. Retail Salespersons has 1,300 estimated jobs in Virgin Islands (territory). Its published median is $28,790 per year. Its location quotient is 1.61.
2. General and Operations Managers has 1,040 estimated jobs in Virgin Islands (territory). Its published median is $82,850 per year. Its location quotient is 1.44.
Role pay range
How published medians differ inside Virgin Islands (territory)
The detailed roles shown for Virgin Islands (territory) do not share one pay level. Registered Nurses has the highest published median in this bounded role set, at $84,120 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 $42,870 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. Registered Nurses has a published median of $84,120 per year in Virgin Islands (territory). BLS lists 470 jobs. Its local share is 0.67 times the national share.
2. General and Operations Managers has a published median of $82,850 per year in Virgin Islands (territory). BLS lists 1,040 jobs. Its local share is 1.44 times the national share.
3. Business Operations Specialists, All Other has a published median of $65,170 per year in Virgin Islands (territory). BLS lists 370 jobs. Its local share is 1.63 times the national share.
Local share
Roles with a larger local share in Virgin Islands (territory)
Location quotient compares a role's share of jobs in Virgin Islands (territory) 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.
Reservation and Transportation Ticket Agents and Travel Clerks has the highest published location quotient in this bounded set, at 12.28. The same row has 300 jobs and a median of $29,030 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. Reservation and Transportation Ticket Agents and Travel Clerks has a location quotient of 12.28 in Virgin Islands (territory). BLS lists 300 jobs and a median of $29,030 per year.
2. Security Guards has a location quotient of 3.91 in Virgin Islands (territory). BLS lists 1,030 jobs and a median of $31,990 per year.
3. Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners has a location quotient of 3.29 in Virgin Islands (territory). BLS lists 580 jobs and a median of $31,450 per year.
Separate price view
What the BEA price level adds for Virgin Islands (territory)
WageScope has no exact approved 2024 BEA price row for Virgin Islands (territory). It does not use a nearby place. It does not copy a state value into a local row. The May 2025 BLS wage page stays useful without that extra source.
A missing BEA row means the page cannot show the national-price-dollar proxy. It does not mean local prices equal the U.S. level. It does not mean the area has low or high prices. The source is absent for this exact map key, so the answer stays absent.
You can still compare the same BLS wage metric with the U.S. row or with like area rows. Keep that as a nominal wage comparison. Add price context only when an exact, current, reviewed source row is available.
How to read survey care marks for Virgin Islands (territory)
The all-occupations employment RSE for Virgin Islands (territory) is 0.1%. The mean-wage RSE is 0.9%. 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 32,090 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 Virgin Islands (territory) 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 Virgin Islands (territory) 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 Virgin Islands (territory) 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 Virgin Islands (territory)'s $42,870 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.
What this Virgin Islands (territory) page does not say
The page does not say what one person in Virgin Islands (territory) 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 51 of 54 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.
3. Security Guards has 1,030 estimated jobs in Virgin Islands (territory). Its published median is $31,990 per year. Its location quotient is 3.91.
4. Fast Food and Counter Workers has 840 estimated jobs in Virgin Islands (territory). Its published median is $24,410 per year. Its location quotient is 1.05.
5. Cashiers has 770 estimated jobs in Virgin Islands (territory). Its published median is $28,040 per year. Its location quotient is 1.2.
6. Maintenance and Repair Workers, General has 700 estimated jobs in Virgin Islands (territory). Its published median is $38,850 per year. Its location quotient is 2.22.
7. Waiters and Waitresses has 690 estimated jobs in Virgin Islands (territory). Its published median is $36,340 per year. Its location quotient is 1.47.
8. Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners has 680 estimated jobs in Virgin Islands (territory). Its published median is $29,000 per year. Its location quotient is 1.49.
4. Bartenders has a published median of $61,380 per year in Virgin Islands (territory). BLS lists 490 jobs. Its local share is 3.13 times the national share.
5. Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education has a published median of $60,560 per year in Virgin Islands (territory). BLS lists 630 jobs. Its local share is 2.18 times the national share.
6. Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education has a published median of $59,520 per year in Virgin Islands (territory). BLS lists 380 jobs. Its local share is 1.71 times the national share.
7. Accountants and Auditors has a published median of $59,060 per year in Virgin Islands (territory). BLS lists 340 jobs. Its local share is 1.15 times the national share.
8. First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers has a published median of $55,630 per year in Virgin Islands (territory). BLS lists 510 jobs. Its local share is 1.72 times the national share.
4. Bartenders has a location quotient of 3.13 in Virgin Islands (territory). BLS lists 490 jobs and a median of $61,380 per year.
5. Maintenance and Repair Workers, General has a location quotient of 2.22 in Virgin Islands (territory). BLS lists 700 jobs and a median of $38,850 per year.
6. Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education has a location quotient of 2.18 in Virgin Islands (territory). BLS lists 630 jobs and a median of $60,560 per year.
7. Food Preparation Workers has a location quotient of 2.1 in Virgin Islands (territory). BLS lists 390 jobs and a median of $30,460 per year.
8. First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers has a location quotient of 1.88 in Virgin Islands (territory). BLS lists 440 jobs and a median of $44,880 per year.
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