Occupational profile · 2025

Oregon

Oregon employs 1,967,130 people. The work it does most unusually is personal care and service workers, all other, at 30.0× the national concentration — 22,930 jobs paying a median of $41,600.

1,967,130jobs

$57,000median annual wage15% above the median of the fifty-one state medians.

6major groups above the nationOf 22, running at least 15% more concentrated here than nationally.

What Oregon is distinctive for

Detailed occupations ranked by location quotient. A location quotient is an occupation’s share of a state’s jobs divided by its share of the nation’s. One means the state looks like the country; two means twice the concentration. It is a measure of distinctiveness, not of quality, size or pay. Bars use a logarithmic scale so the lower ranks stay legible beside the leader.

1Personal Care and Service Workers, All Other22,930 jobs · median $41,60030.0×
2Semiconductor Processing Technicians6,620 jobs · median $63,33016.6×
3Logging Equipment Operators1,860 jobs · median $58,7207.0×
4Directors, Religious Activities and Education1,860 jobs · median $45,3606.7×
5Forest and Conservation Technicians2,530 jobs · median $55,9106.6×
6Clergy3,850 jobs · median $63,1405.3×
7Automotive and Watercraft Service Attendants6,270 jobs · median $34,2804.9×
8Social Workers, All Other3,710 jobs · median $67,8204.7×
9Machine Feeders and Offbearers2,390 jobs · median $45,5804.5×
10Zoologists and Wildlife Biologists1,010 jobs · median $85,1504.4×
11Sawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Wood2,010 jobs · median $49,7403.9×
12Psychiatric Aides1,550 jobs · median $48,3003.5×

What Oregon is made of

All twenty-two occupational groups by headcount, with the concentration figure beside each. Most states look broadly alike in this view — that is the finding, not a flaw in it.

Oregon, occupational major groups. Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, 2025.
Occupation group	Jobs	vs national	Median wage
Office and Administrative Support Occupations	215,390	0.96×	$50,390
Food Preparation and Serving Related Occupations	182,760	1.06×	$37,670
Transportation and Material Moving Occupations	172,030	0.99×	$46,430
Sales and Related Occupations	156,960	0.92×	$41,850
Business and Financial Operations Occupations	133,300	1.00×	$84,720
Management Occupations	125,510	0.89×	$124,810
Educational Instruction and Library Occupations	117,950	1.02×	$61,090
Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	108,210	0.87×	$118,020
Production Occupations	108,000	1.00×	$49,720
Healthcare Support Occupations	91,600	0.92×	$47,470
Construction and Extraction Occupations	88,810	1.09×	$66,130
Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations	72,470	0.94×	$61,930
Computer and Mathematical Occupations	63,890	0.96×	$109,710
Building and Grounds Cleaning and Maintenance Occupations	57,960	1.01×	$42,310
Personal Care and Service Occupations	57,550	1.40×	$41,600
Community and Social Service Occupations	53,330	1.58×	$61,860
Architecture and Engineering Occupations	42,050	1.27×	$103,880
Protective Service Occupations	38,350	0.80×	$59,260
Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations	30,930	1.19×	$64,310
Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations	23,810	1.28×	$80,330
Legal Occupations	13,890	0.84×	$91,790
Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Occupations	12,370	2.25×	$37,060

Elsewhere on Oregon

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Blank cells are estimates BLS did not release, usually because too few employers reported. They are shown as gaps rather than filled. Detailed occupations are included only where at least 1,000 people are employed, below which a quotient is survey noise. A wage marked “$239,200 or more” is censored at source: BLS does not publish medians above that figure, so the number is a floor rather than the wage. A work of the U.S. government: no copyright subsists (17 U.S.C. §105). BLS OEWS ↗