Best jobs in North Dakota
The 25 best-scoring occupations in North Dakota, ranked on local pay plus national growth and opportunity.
Wages here are local to North Dakota (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 (local)
Growth & openings — EP 2024–34 (national)
How North Dakota pay compares to the nation
Median vs U.S. median · scale ±10%
$604,890 vs $414,010 · +46.1%
$553,140 vs $420,860 · +31.4%
$130,070 vs $132,300 · -1.7%
$30,080 vs $31,200 · -3.6%
$66,700 vs $64,120 · +4.0%
$39,440 vs $35,800 · +10.2%
−10%U.S. MEDIAN+10%
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Occupation
MEDIAN, LOCAL
P25–P75
Growth
Employed
Open/yr
Score
Showing top 25 of 551 scored occupations — show all 551show top 25
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Occupation
MEDIAN, LOCAL
Growth
Score
73
$74,250
+0.3%
31
136
$65,070
+3.7%
25
140
$66,060
+3.1%
24
177
$102,720
+1.9%
21
277
$46,220
+6.3%
17
319
Electrical, Electronic, and Electromechanical Assemblers, Except Coil Winders, Tapers, and Finishers
$42,790
+4.6%
16
358
$62,280
+2.3%
15
452
$46,220
+2.0%
11
460
$63,820
-13.7%
11
470
$59,390
-4.3%
10
490
$47,670
-12.0%
9†
502
$48,400
-12.1%
9
510
$47,780
-3.8%
8
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No placeholder listings · nothing invented 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.