Best jobs in Milwaukee, WI
The best-scoring occupations in the Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI metro area, ranked on local pay plus national growth and opportunity.
Wages here are local to Milwaukee, WI (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 Milwaukee, WI pay compares to the nation
Median vs U.S. median · scale ±10%
$762,360 vs $414,010 · +84.1%
$37,020 vs $35,800 · +3.4%
$134,350 vs $132,300 · +1.5%
−10%U.S. MEDIAN+10%
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Occupation
MEDIAN, LOCAL
P25–P75
Growth
Employed
Open/yr
Score
Showing top 25 of 732 scored occupations — show all 732show top 25
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Occupation
MEDIAN, LOCAL
Growth
Score
104
$73,880
+0.3%
29
122
$64,890
+3.1%
27
169
$48,480
-1.6%
23
215
$64,100
+3.7%
20
230
Electrical, Electronic, and Electromechanical Assemblers, Except Coil Winders, Tapers, and Finishers
$46,380
+4.6%
20
270
$49,930
+6.3%
18
376
$77,500
+1.9%
15
437
$63,320
+2.3%
13
567
$48,650
-12.1%
9
582
$43,390
-3.8%
9
603
$40,000
+2.0%
9
606
—†
-4.3%
9†
608
$46,520
+1.2%
9
632
$47,750
-12.0%
8
635
—†
-19.6%
8†
639
$57,300
-13.7%
7
676
—†
-1.1%
6†
680
$50,870
-13.6%
6
Live jobs in Milwaukee, WI
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.