Workers in the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue metro area earned an average hourly wage of $36.62 in May 2021, about 31% higher than the national average of $28.01, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics announced Thursday.
The data looked at the wages and salaries of 1,917,560 area employees working in a wide variety of occupational groups, including management, business and financial operations, computer and mathematics, legal, and more.
Wages in the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue metro in May 2021 were higher than the national average in 21 of the 22 major occupational groups.
Management was the highest paying occupational group, earning an average of $73.64 an hour, followed by computer and mathematical occupations at $62.45 an hour.
Computer and mathematical occupations account for more than 8% of the workforce in the metro area, significantly higher than the 3.3% share nationally.
Among the computer and mathematical occupations, software developer was the most common job, with 73,860 workers.
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