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Food Service Managers pay in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA and St. Louis, MO-IL
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Food Service Managers is $98,800 per year in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA. It is $64,460 per year in St. Louis, MO-IL. Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA is 53.3% above St. Louis, MO-IL on the published median.
Both rows use SOC 11-9051 and the same annual wage metric. Median means the middle of each area's published wage spread. It is not one worker's pay. The larger median is not proof that one place gives a better job or a better result. It is one wage fact from one source period.
BLS lists 760 wage and salary jobs in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA and 1,260 in St. Louis, MO-IL. Those are survey job counts, not open posts. Read pay, job scale, local share, and price level as separate facts before you make a choice.
Evidence: bls-oews-may-2025 · Rule: same-soc-same-metric-pair · nominal-median-gap · employment-not-openings