Walla Walla, WA

163 occupations with BLS estimates, May 2025. BLS area code 47460.

BLS figures are for its own occupation list. Where one BLS occupation covers several O*NET occupations, it links to the first and says how many.

Largest

Occupation	Employment
Home Health and Personal Care Aides (2 O*NET occupations)	1,160
Registered Nurses (5 O*NET occupations)	810
Fast Food and Counter Workers (2 O*NET occupations)	800
Retail Salespersons	640
Cashiers	490
Office Clerks, General	440
Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners	430
Stockers and Order Fillers	420
Business Operations Specialists, All Other (5 O*NET occupations)	370
Waiters and Waitresses	340
Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary (3 O*NET occupations)	330
Maintenance and Repair Workers, General	310
Nursing Assistants	290
Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive	290
Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand (2 O*NET occupations)	290
General and Operations Managers	280
Demonstrators and Product Promoters	280
Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers	270
Cooks, Restaurant	260
Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks	250

Most concentrated

By location quotient: the occupation's share of jobs here divided by its share nationally. Occupations employing fewer than 100 here are left out.

Occupation	Location quotient	Employment
Demonstrators and Product Promoters	25.64	280
Separating, Filtering, Clarifying, Precipitating, and Still Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders	14.79	150
Civil Engineers (3 O*NET occupations)	3.18	190
Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse	3.02	130
Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers	2.94	100
Coaches and Scouts	2.74	110
Tellers	2.59	140
Business Operations Specialists, All Other (5 O*NET occupations)	2.03	370
First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers	1.87	210
Substitute Teachers, Short-Term	1.66	150
Dental Assistants	1.66	110
Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders	1.64	100
Home Health and Personal Care Aides (2 O*NET occupations)	1.61	1,160
Child, Family, and School Social Workers	1.57	100
Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers	1.54	240
Registered Nurses (5 O*NET occupations)	1.44	810
Industrial Machinery Mechanics	1.43	100
Food Preparation Workers	1.42	210
Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary (3 O*NET occupations)	1.40	330
Fast Food and Counter Workers (2 O*NET occupations)	1.24	800

Highest median wage

Occupation	Median annual
Physicians, All Other (7 O*NET occupations)	$219,860
Pharmacists	$165,210
Physician Assistants (2 O*NET occupations)	$161,980
Architectural and Engineering Managers (2 O*NET occupations)	$157,030
Computer and Information Systems Managers	$152,090
Sales Managers	$149,190
Financial Managers (3 O*NET occupations)	$144,410
Managers, All Other (7 O*NET occupations)	$138,170
Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary	$137,660
Lawyers	$136,990
Medical and Health Services Managers	$135,030
Nurse Practitioners	$130,380
Industrial Production Managers (6 O*NET occupations)	$128,750
Civil Engineers (3 O*NET occupations)	$123,030
Electrical Engineers	$121,120
Registered Nurses (5 O*NET occupations)	$116,970
Physical Therapists	$115,740
Management Analysts	$115,210
Software Developers	$114,920
Mechanical Engineers (3 O*NET occupations)	$108,510

All 163 occupations

BLS occupation	Employment	Median annual	Location quotient
Accountants and Auditors `13-2011`	170	$89,630	0.72
Amusement and Recreation Attendants `39-3091`	30	$34,650	0.51
Architectural and Engineering Managers (2 O*NET occupations) `11-9041`	40	$157,030	1.09
Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary `25-1121`	70	$76,130	4.63
Automotive Service Technicians and Mechanics `49-3023`	90	$50,090	0.79
Bakers `51-3011`	30	$36,780	0.88
Bartenders `35-3011`	120	$54,030	0.96
Billing and Posting Clerks `43-3021`	40	$50,820	0.66
Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks `43-3031`	250	$51,410	1.09
Bus Drivers, School `53-3051`	70	$51,840	1.01
Bus and Truck Mechanics and Diesel Engine Specialists `49-3031`	50	$67,310	0.96
Business Operations Specialists, All Other (5 O*NET occupations) `13-1199`	370	$91,170	2.03
Buyers and Purchasing Agents (3 O*NET occupations) `13-1020`	80	$74,640	1.03
Career/Technical Education Teachers, Secondary School `25-2032`	30	$99,420	1.83
Carpenters `47-2031`	120	$59,660	1.05
Cashiers `41-2011`	490	$35,930	0.96
Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers `47-2051`	100	$62,160	2.94
Chefs and Head Cooks `35-1011`	40	$68,120	1.08
Child, Family, and School Social Workers `21-1021`	100	$72,910	1.57
Childcare Workers (2 O*NET occupations) `39-9011`	60	$36,040	0.65
Civil Engineers (3 O*NET occupations) `17-2051`	190	$123,030	3.18
Cleaners of Vehicles and Equipment `53-7061`	40	$35,590	0.63
Clinical Laboratory Technologists and Technicians (6 O*NET occupations) `29-2010`	50	$70,260	0.97
Coaches and Scouts `27-2022`	110	$48,640	2.74
Compliance Officers (7 O*NET occupations) `13-1041`	60	$73,430	0.83
Computer Occupations, All Other (10 O*NET occupations) `15-1299`	40	$104,590	0.61
Computer Systems Analysts (2 O*NET occupations) `15-1211`	40	$100,370	0.43
Computer User Support Specialists `15-1232`	70	$63,010	0.55
Computer and Information Systems Managers `11-3021`	30	$152,090	0.28
Construction Laborers `47-2061`	130	$48,360	0.72
Construction and Building Inspectors (2 O*NET occupations) `47-4011`	40	$96,100	1.61
Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria `35-2012`	90	$46,170	1.23
Cooks, Restaurant `35-2014`	260	$44,050	1.09
Cost Estimators `13-1051`	50	$74,050	1.39
Counter and Rental Clerks `41-2021`	70	$43,630	1.01
Court, Municipal, and License Clerks `43-4031`	40	$62,170	1.41
Customer Service Representatives `43-4051`	150	$48,590	0.35
Cutting and Slicing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders `51-9032`	40	$45,340	5.44
Demonstrators and Product Promoters `41-9011`	280	$36,510	25.64
Dental Assistants `31-9091`	110	$49,790	1.66
Dental Hygienists `29-1292`	50	$106,680	1.39
Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers `35-9011`	50	$37,700	0.54
Dishwashers `35-9021`	70	$36,110	0.93
Driver/Sales Workers `53-3031`	40	$43,090	0.57
Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary `11-9032`	40	$137,660	0.74
Education Administrators, Postsecondary `11-9033`	60	$105,390	2.05
Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors `21-1012`	80	$64,900	1.32
Electrical Engineers `17-2071`	30	$121,120	1.00
Electricians `47-2111`	100	$82,910	0.81
Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education `25-2021`	220	$102,980	0.94
Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants `43-6011`	60	$61,380	0.76
Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse `45-2092`	130	$35,740	3.02
Fast Food and Counter Workers (2 O*NET occupations) `35-3023`	800	$35,020	1.24
Financial Managers (3 O*NET occupations) `11-3031`	60	$144,410	0.41
Financial and Investment Analysts `13-2051`	30	$72,010	0.55
First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers (2 O*NET occupations) `47-1011`	70	$89,250	0.54
First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers `35-1012`	140	$57,470	0.71
First-Line Supervisors of Housekeeping and Janitorial Workers `37-1011`	30	$59,620	1.07
First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers `49-1011`	120	$94,420	1.13
First-Line Supervisors of Non-Retail Sales Workers `41-1012`	60	$59,630	1.65
First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers `43-1011`	230	$75,770	0.96
First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers `51-1011`	210	$77,220	1.87
First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers `41-1011`	220	$48,200	1.18
First-Line Supervisors of Transportation and Material Moving Workers, Except Aircraft Cargo Handling Supervisors (5 O*NET occupations) `53-1047`	100	$75,800	0.99
Food Preparation Workers `35-2021`	210	$40,030	1.42
Food Servers, Nonrestaurant `35-3041`	90	$36,170	1.76
Fundraisers `13-1131`	30	$67,100	1.69
General and Operations Managers `11-1021`	280	$106,690	0.49
Healthcare Social Workers `21-1022`	40	$75,610	1.15
Healthcare Support Workers, All Other (3 O*NET occupations) `31-9099`	40	$53,290	2.30
Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers `49-9021`	80	$62,530	1.13
Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers `53-3032`	270	$60,300	0.78
Helpers--Production Workers `51-9198`	30	$44,200	1.18
Highway Maintenance Workers `47-4051`	40	$62,880	1.56
Home Health and Personal Care Aides (2 O*NET occupations) `31-1120`	1,160	$47,700	1.61
Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop `35-9031`	60	$35,510	0.86
Hotel, Motel, and Resort Desk Clerks `43-4081`	50	$35,670	1.10
Human Resources Specialists `13-1071`	120	$80,730	0.81
Industrial Machinery Mechanics `49-9041`	100	$76,540	1.43
Industrial Production Managers (6 O*NET occupations) `11-3051`	30	$128,750	0.79
Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators `53-7051`	90	$46,020	0.67
Information and Record Clerks, All Other `43-4199`	80	$52,420	3.76
Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers `51-9061`	60	$55,050	0.59
Insurance Sales Agents `41-3021`	50	$57,250	0.69
Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners `37-2011`	430	$39,480	1.16
Kindergarten Teachers, Except Special Education `25-2012`	40	$99,770	1.99
Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand (2 O*NET occupations) `53-7062`	290	$44,920	0.58
Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers `37-3011`	240	$40,550	1.54
Lawyers `23-1011`	40	$136,990	0.29
Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses `29-2061`	60	$78,690	0.60
Light Truck Drivers `53-3033`	90	$46,520	0.56
Loan Interviewers and Clerks `43-4131`	30	$49,080	1.25
Loan Officers `13-2072`	60	$82,730	1.31
Logisticians (3 O*NET occupations) `13-1081`	30	$100,420	0.74
Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners `37-2012`	160	$36,130	1.09
Maintenance and Repair Workers, General `49-9071`	310	$53,960	1.23
Management Analysts `13-1111`	180	$115,210	1.21
Managers, All Other (7 O*NET occupations) `11-9199`	60	$138,170	0.59
Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists (2 O*NET occupations) `13-1161`	60	$63,120	0.43
Mechanical Engineers (3 O*NET occupations) `17-2141`	70	$108,510	1.38
Medical Assistants `31-9092`	140	$56,020	1.02
Medical Records Specialists `29-2072`	30	$56,620	1.00
Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants `43-6013`	60	$48,130	0.40
Medical and Health Services Managers `11-9111`	70	$135,030	0.70
Meeting, Convention, and Event Planners `13-1121`	50	$52,290	1.94
Middle School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education `25-2022`	80	$101,540	0.82
Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators (2 O*NET occupations) `51-2090`	120	$48,130	0.51
Network and Computer Systems Administrators `15-1244`	30	$90,650	0.66
Nurse Practitioners `29-1171`	50	$130,380	1.02
Nursing Assistants `31-1131`	290	$47,990	1.20
Occupational Health and Safety Specialists `19-5011`	30	$89,860	1.30
Office Clerks, General `43-9061`	440	$48,310	1.07
Office and Administrative Support Workers, All Other `43-9199`	50	$51,910	1.44
Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators `47-2073`	50	$67,750	0.67
Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders `51-9111`	100	$43,850	1.64
Packers and Packagers, Hand `53-7064`	100	$34,890	1.08
Painters, Construction and Maintenance `47-2141`	80	$51,460	2.11
Paralegals and Legal Assistants `23-2011`	50	$60,120	0.77
Paramedics `29-2043`	30	Not available	1.96
Parts Salespersons `41-2022`	40	$46,230	0.99
Pharmacists `29-1051`	60	$165,210	1.10
Pharmacy Technicians `29-2052`	60	$57,190	0.83
Physical Therapists `29-1123`	30	$115,740	0.74
Physician Assistants (2 O*NET occupations) `29-1071`	30	$161,980	1.26
Physicians, All Other (7 O*NET occupations) `29-1229`	60	$219,860	0.96
Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters (2 O*NET occupations) `47-2152`	80	$70,390	1.08
Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers (2 O*NET occupations) `33-3051`	90	$83,620	0.82
Postal Service Mail Carriers `43-5052`	60	$58,910	1.06
Preschool Teachers, Except Special Education `25-2011`	50	$41,960	0.61
Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks `43-5061`	30	$67,000	0.53
Project Management Specialists `13-1082`	80	$100,910	0.44
Psychology Teachers, Postsecondary `25-1066`	30	$73,070	4.96
Public Relations Specialists `27-3031`	40	$76,360	0.89
Radiologic Technologists and Technicians `29-2034`	40	$93,750	1.02
Real Estate Sales Agents `41-9022`	50	$97,470	1.44
Receptionists and Information Clerks `43-4171`	170	$39,630	1.12
Recreation Workers `39-9032`	50	$40,250	0.96
Refuse and Recyclable Material Collectors `53-7081`	50	$60,330	1.84
Registered Nurses (5 O*NET occupations) `29-1141`	810	$116,970	1.44
Retail Salespersons `41-2031`	640	$36,620	0.98
Roofers `47-2181`	40	$49,380	1.70
Sales Managers `11-2022`	40	$149,190	0.35
Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel `41-3091`	50	$64,500	0.25
Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scientific Products `41-4012`	170	$75,720	0.83
Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education `25-2031`	120	$104,940	0.66
Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive `43-6014`	290	$51,640	1.02
Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents `41-3031`	50	$58,490	0.56
Security Guards `33-9032`	60	$48,770	0.29
Self-Enrichment Teachers `25-3021`	60	$40,040	1.04
Separating, Filtering, Clarifying, Precipitating, and Still Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders `51-9012`	150	$51,540	14.79
Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks `43-5071`	150	$55,960	1.12
Social and Community Service Managers `11-9151`	30	$103,740	0.94
Social and Human Service Assistants `21-1093`	90	$52,990	1.30
Software Developers `15-1252`	90	$114,920	0.31
Stockers and Order Fillers `53-7065`	420	$39,490	0.89
Substance Abuse, Behavioral Disorder, and Mental Health Counselors (2 O*NET occupations) `21-1018`	100	$68,160	1.16
Substitute Teachers, Short-Term `25-3031`	150	$53,610	1.66
Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary (3 O*NET occupations) `25-9045`	330	$45,140	1.40
Teaching Assistants, Postsecondary `25-9044`	30	$47,390	1.24
Tellers `43-3071`	140	$46,160	2.59
Training and Development Specialists `13-1151`	30	$57,280	0.44
Waiters and Waitresses `35-3031`	340	$56,730	0.90
Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and Brazers `51-4121`	80	$59,380	1.10