Best jobs in Kansas City, MO
The best-scoring occupations in the Kansas City, MO-KS metro area, ranked on local pay plus national growth and opportunity.
Wages here are local to Kansas City, MO (OEWS May 2025). Projected growth and openings are national BLS projections — not a local forecast.
How this ranking is scored
score = .40·pay + .30·growth + .20·employment + .10·openings
Each factor is scaled to the strongest occupation on this list, then weighted and summed. Weights differ by list type. Full methodology.
Wages — OEWS May 2025 (metro)
Growth & openings — EP 2024–34 (national)
How Kansas City, MO pay compares to the nation
Median vs U.S. median · scale ±10%
$49,990 vs $53,140 · -5.9%
$32,780 vs $35,800 · -8.4%
$130,760 vs $132,300 · -1.2%
−10%U.S. MEDIAN+10%
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Occupation
MEDIAN, LOCAL
P25–P75
Growth
Employed
Open/yr
Score
Showing top 25 of 745 scored occupations — show all 745show top 25
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Occupation
MEDIAN, LOCAL
Growth
Score
87
$64,950
+3.1%
23
110
$66,250
+0.3%
21
151
$63,610
+3.7%
17
167
$130,850
+1.9%
17
280
Electrical, Electronic, and Electromechanical Assemblers, Except Coil Winders, Tapers, and Finishers
$45,240
+4.6%
13
297
$47,200
+6.3%
12
584
$52,840
-12.1%
7
595
$48,680
+1.2%
6
597
$42,700
+2.0%
6
649
—†
-1.1%
6†
660
$44,450
-3.8%
5
664
—†
-19.6%
5†
674
$51,770
-13.7%
5
677
$49,290
-4.3%
5
690
$44,860
-12.0%
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Live jobs in Kansas City, MO
Growth and openings are national (BLS EP 2024–34) — state-level projections are not in this data pull, so the same national figure is used for every place and we say so rather than guess. † local wage not published for this cell — the score uses the state value and the pay column shows a dash.