TheMoneyZoo.com · Free Tool

Where Do You
Actually Sit?

Put your salary on the published pay scale for your occupation — not a national average.

825 occupations · U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · OEWS May 2025

The Pay Locator
Two fields. No estimates.
Every number you'll see is one BLS published for your occupation code.
Your Occupation
All 825 occupations BLS published a full wage distribution for. Type a few letters and pick from the list.
Your Current Annual Salary ($)
Base salary. Leave out overtime and bonuses — BLS wage data excludes them too, so this keeps the comparison honest.
Pick an occupation from the list, and enter a number like 58000.
The Published Scale
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How this works, and what it can't tell you

For each occupation code, BLS publishes the annual wage at the 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th and 90th percentile. This tool places your salary against those five published points. It does not adjust for your experience, your region, or your employer. No coefficient is applied to anything.

The marker's position between two anchors is drawn to scale, which makes it a picture rather than a precise percentile. Wages between published points aren't evenly spread, so read the band you're in, not a decimal.

Three things this can't see: your metro area, which can move the scale a lot; your employer class, which on some occupations is worth more than a decade of experience; and overtime, which for many hourly trades is a large share of real income. The state-data link above handles the first. The blueprints handle the second.

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, national file, May 2025 — 825 detailed occupations covering 155.4 million jobs. Five occupations are missing because BLS suppressed their wage estimates.

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