Best jobs in Portland, OR
The best-scoring occupations in the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA metro area, ranked on local pay plus national growth and opportunity.
Wages here are local to Portland, OR (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 Portland, OR pay compares to the nation
Median vs U.S. median · scale ±10%
$524,350 vs $358,550 · +46.2%
$158,890 vs $132,300 · +20.1%
$35,620 vs $31,200 · +14.2%
$45,570 vs $35,800 · +27.3%
−10%U.S. MEDIAN+10%
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Occupation
MEDIAN, LOCAL
P25–P75
Growth
Employed
Open/yr
Score
Showing top 25 of 726 scored occupations — show all 726show top 25
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Occupation
MEDIAN, LOCAL
Growth
Score
117
$55,360
-1.6%
33
136
$77,900
+0.3%
31
142
$74,900
+3.1%
31
164
$123,810
+1.9%
28
214
$64,830
+3.7%
25
341
Electrical, Electronic, and Electromechanical Assemblers, Except Coil Winders, Tapers, and Finishers
$48,140
+4.6%
20
370
$50,030
+6.3%
19
402
$76,910
+2.3%
18
605
$49,130
+2.0%
12
609
$63,530
-13.7%
12
610
$58,680
-12.0%
12
624
$57,110
-12.1%
11
644
$47,630
+1.2%
11
656
$46,720
-3.8%
10
672
$50,380
-4.3%
10
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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. † local wage not published for this cell — the score uses the state value and the pay column shows a dash.