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Customer Service Representatives

Paducah, KY-IL metropolitan area. Estimated employment 860.

Data released May 2025 BLS OEWS · SOC 43-4051
Fig. 1 — The wage rule

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$36,460 · 50th
$27,21010th
$33,23025th
$36,46050th
$45,59075th
$54,22090th

That is the medianhalf of customer service representatives in Paducah earn more.

Table 1 — Adjusted

$36,460 in Paducah buys what $42,400 buys across the country as a whole.

Paducah's regional price parity is 86.1 — well below the national average — the nominal figure understates local buying power considerably. Adjusted figures for other metros are in the nearby-metros table below.

Table 2 — Nearby metros

The same job, elsewhere in Kentucky

Adjusted figures apply each metro's regional price parity, so the columns are directly comparable.

Metro areaMedianAdjustedRPPvs. Paducah
Owensboro$45,260$51,10088.6+20.6%
Louisville$41,600$44,70093.1+5.5%
Lexington$39,160$42,20092.9−0.5%
Bowling Green$37,970$42,10090.2−0.6%
Elizabethtown$37,480$41,40090.6−2.3%
Paducah This page$36,460$42,40086.1

Price parity and difference against Paducah are in the full table on wider screens.

Sources

How this page was made

Wage data
Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 release. Public domain.
Price parity
Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Price Parities, 2024.
Employment
860 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
Occupation
SOC 43-4051, Customer Service Representatives. Mapped to our taxonomy as customer-service-representatives.

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