Best jobs in Youngstown, OH
The best-scoring occupations in the Youngstown-Warren, OH metro area, ranked on local pay plus national growth and opportunity.
Wages here are local to Youngstown, OH (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)
#
Occupation
MEDIAN, LOCAL
P25–P75
Growth
Employed
Open/yr
Score
Showing top 25 of 774 scored occupations — show all 774show top 25
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Occupation
MEDIAN, LOCAL
Growth
Score
180
$64,570
+0.3%
23
183
Electrical, Electronic, and Electromechanical Assemblers, Except Coil Winders, Tapers, and Finishers
$47,410
+4.6%
23
186
$41,580
-1.6%
22
230
$58,900
+3.7%
20
236
$54,950
+3.1%
20
391
$41,820
+6.3%
16
426
$72,120
+1.9%
15
543
$50,780
+2.3%
12
552
—†
-1.1%
12†
572
$41,440
-12.1%
12
629
—†
-19.6%
10†
634
$40,460
+1.2%
10
644
$60,380
-14.4%
10
671
—†
-13.7%
9†
675
$45,030
-12.0%
9
683
$37,150
+2.0%
9
698
$51,890
-13.6%
8
699
$52,000
-4.3%
8
709
$37,400
-3.8%
8
Live jobs in Youngstown, OH
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.