Workers in the Eugene-Springfield, OR Metropolitan Statistical Area had an average (mean) hourly wage of $30.92 in May 2025, compared to the nationwide average of $33.54, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Regional Commissioner Chris Rosenlund noted that higher paying major occupational groups included management ($59.72), healthcare practitioners and technical ($58.40), and legal ($48.16). Lower paying occupations included food preparation and serving related ($18.97), building and grounds cleaning and maintenance ($19.96), and personal care and service ($20.61). (See table A.)

Occupational groups with the highest employment shares in the Eugene area included office and administrative support (11.6 percent), food preparation and serving related (10.5 percent), and sales and related (8.5 percent). Major occupational groups on the lower end of local employment included legal (0.5 percent); architecture and engineering (1.0 percent); and life, physical, and social science (1.1 percent).

One occupational group—office and administrative support—was chosen to illustrate the diversity of data available for any of the 22 major occupational categories. Eugene had 18,360 jobs in office and administrative support, accounting for 11.6 percent of local area employment, compared to the 11.4-percent share nationally. The average hourly wage for this occupational group locally was $24.80, compared to the national wage of $24.79.

Some of the larger detailed occupations within the office and administrative support group included general office clerks (2,230), bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (1,780), and secretaries and administrative assistants, except legal, medical, and executive (1,670). Among the higher paying jobs in this group were executive secretaries and executive administrative assistants ($35.33) and first-line supervisors of office and administrative support workers ($35.26). At the lower end of the wage scale were hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks ($17.51) and reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks ($18.39). (Detailed data for the office and administrative support occupations are presented in table 1; for a complete listing of detailed occupations available go to https://data.bls.gov/oes/#/area/0021660/2025.)

Location quotients allow us to explore the occupational make-up of a metropolitan area by comparing the composition of jobs in an area relative to the national average. (See table 1.) For example, a location quotient of 2.00 indicates that an occupation accounts for twice the share of employment in the area than it does nationally. In the Eugene area, above-average concentrations of employment were found in some of the occupations within the office and administrative support group. For instance, medical secretaries and administrative assistants were employed at 1.60 times the national rate in Eugene, and insurance claims and policy processing clerks, at 1.56 times the U.S. average. Billing and posting clerks had a location quotient of 1.02 in Eugene, indicating that this particular occupation’s local and national employment shares were similar.

The statistics in this release are from the Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) survey, a cooperative effort between BLS and the State Workforce Agencies (SWAs). BLS funds the survey and provides the procedures and technical support. State Workforce Agencies collect most of the data: in this case, the Oregon Employment Department.

Technical Note

The Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) survey is a semiannual survey measuring occupational employment and wage rates for wage and salary workers in nonfarm establishments in the United States. The OEWS data available from BLS include cross-industry occupational employment and wage estimates for the nation; over 530 areas, including states and the District of Columbia, metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs), nonmetropolitan areas, and territories; national industry-specific estimates at the NAICS sector, 3-digit, most 4-digit, and selected 5- and 6-digit industry levels; and national estimates by ownership across all industries and for schools and hospitals. Full OEWS data tables are available online.

Additional information about the OEWS estimates and methodology is available in the national Technical Notes. The overall national response rate for the six panels, based on the 50 states and the District of Columbia, is 66.2 percent based on establishments and 67.2 percent based on weighted sampled employment. Sample sizes and response rates by metropolitan and nonmetropolitan area are available on the Additional OEWS data sets page.

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The Eugene-Springfield, OR Metropolitan Statistical Area includes Lane County.

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Table 1. Employment and wage data for office and administrative support occupations, Eugene metropolitan area, May 2025

Occupation (1)	Employment		Mean wages ($)
	Level (2)	Location quotient (3)	Hourly	Annual (4)
Office and administrative support occupations	18,360	1.02	24.80	51,590
First-line supervisors of office and administrative support workers	1,040	0.71	35.26	73,340
Bill and account collectors	140	0.89	24.61	51,190
Billing and posting clerks	420	1.02	24.32	50,590
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks	1,780	1.28	25.01	52,010
Payroll and timekeeping clerks	220	1.43	28.78	59,860
Procurement clerks	60	1.07	23.86	49,630
Tellers	340	1.03	20.59	42,820
Brokerage clerks	40	1.20	33.15	68,950
Court, municipal, and license clerks	140	0.76	29.30	60,950
Customer service representatives	1,570	0.59	23.08	48,000
Eligibility interviewers, government programs	180	1.14	27.22	56,620
File clerks	80	1.09	23.45	48,780
Hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks	290	1.08	17.51	36,420
Library assistants, clerical	60	0.66	21.37	44,450
Loan interviewers and clerks	250	1.47	26.47	55,060
New accounts clerks	160	4.20	24.13	50,180
Order clerks	70	0.85	23.24	48,350
Human resources assistants, except payroll and timekeeping	60	0.69	23.35	48,570
Receptionists and information clerks	1,250	1.35	18.79	39,070
Reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks	80	0.67	18.39	38,250
Information and record clerks, all other	460	3.38	22.20	46,170
Couriers and messengers	90	1.33	21.23	44,160
Public safety telecommunicators	90	0.87	34.77	72,330
Dispatchers, except police, fire, and ambulance	260	1.25	24.69	51,360
Postal service clerks	100	1.31	28.11	58,460
Postal service mail carriers	370	1.11	28.65	59,600
Postal service mail sorters, processors, and processing machine operators	120	1.15	29.23	60,810
Production, planning, and expediting clerks	240	0.60	28.96	60,230
Shipping, receiving, and inventory clerks	950	1.15	22.88	47,580
Executive secretaries and executive administrative assistants	490	1.05	35.33	73,490
Legal secretaries and administrative assistants	170	1.04	27.88	57,980
Medical secretaries and administrative assistants	1,560	1.60	24.89	51,770
Secretaries and administrative assistants, except legal, medical, and executive	1,670	0.96	24.21	50,350
Data entry keyers	110	0.86	20.72	43,090
Insurance claims and policy processing clerks	340	1.56	24.43	50,810
Office clerks, general	2,230	0.89	23.54	48,970
Office and administrative support workers, all other	350	1.80	23.84	49,590
Footnotes: (1) For a complete listing of all detailed occupations in the Eugene-Springfield, OR Metropolitan Statistical Area, see https://data.bls.gov/oes/#/area/0021660/2025. (2) Estimates for detailed occupations may not sum to the totals due to rounding, and because the totals may include occupations that are not shown separately. Estimates do not include self-employed workers. (3) The location quotient is the ratio of the area concentration of occupational employment to the national average concentration. A location quotient greater than one indicates the occupation has a higher share of employment than average, and a location quotient less than one indicates the occupation is less prevalent in the area than average. (4) Annual wages have been calculated by multiplying the hourly mean wage by a 'year-round, full-time' hours figure of 2,080 hours; for those occupations where there is not an hourly mean wage published, the annual wage has been directly calculated from the reported survey data.