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General and Operations Managers

Cleveland, OH metropolitan area. Estimated employment 29,510.

Data released May 2025 BLS OEWS · SOC 11-1021
Fig. 1 — The wage rule

Where you sit in the distribution

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$97,750 · 50th
$48,14010th
$63,63025th
$97,75050th
$154,25075th
$217,29090th

That is the medianhalf of people in this occupation in Cleveland earn more.

Table 1 — Adjusted

$97,750 in Cleveland buys what $104,100 buys across the country as a whole.

Cleveland's regional price parity is 93.9 — below the national average, so a dollar here goes further than the nominal figure suggests. Adjusted figures for other metros are in the nearby-metros table below.

Table 2 — Nearby metros

The same job, elsewhere in Ohio

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

Metro areaMedianAdjustedRPPvs. Cleveland
Columbus$102,590$107,50095.5+3.3%
Cincinnati$100,670$105,60095.4+1.4%
Akron$98,340$105,30093.4+1.2%
Dayton$98,030$105,80092.7+1.6%
Cleveland This page$97,750$104,10093.9
Toledo$95,120$104,00091.5−0.1%
Canton$82,720$92,50089.4−11.1%
Sandusky$81,790$91,60089.3−12.0%

Price parity and difference against Cleveland 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
29,510 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
Occupation
SOC 11-1021, General and Operations Managers. Mapped to our taxonomy as general-and-operations-managers.

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