Best jobs in Seattle, WA
The best-scoring occupations in the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA metro area, ranked on local pay plus national growth and opportunity.
Wages here are local to Seattle, WA (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 Seattle, WA pay compares to the nation
Median vs U.S. median · scale ±10%
$641,210 vs $328,730 · +95.1%
$160,090 vs $132,300 · +21.0%
$662,760 vs $496,010 · +33.6%
$646,930 vs $391,490 · +65.2%
$167,280 vs $135,980 · +23.0%
−10%U.S. MEDIAN+10%
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Occupation
MEDIAN, LOCAL
P25–P75
Growth
Employed
Open/yr
Score
Showing top 25 of 760 scored occupations — show all 760show top 25
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Occupation
MEDIAN, LOCAL
Growth
Score
172
$129,550
+1.9%
21
178
$82,540
+3.1%
20
211
$82,260
+0.3%
19
243
$76,390
+3.7%
17
244
$60,230
-1.6%
17
307
$68,020
+6.3%
16
369
Electrical, Electronic, and Electromechanical Assemblers, Except Coil Winders, Tapers, and Finishers
$58,370
+4.6%
14
475
$76,490
+2.3%
12
485
$105,430
-14.4%
12
610
$43,280
+2.0%
9†
633
$71,630
-13.7%
9
681
$48,520
+1.2%
7
687
$58,430
-4.3%
7
688
$54,920
-12.1%
7
704
$53,930
-12.0%
7
723
$48,470
-3.8%
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Live jobs in Seattle, WA
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.