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General and Operations Managers

Sheboygan, WI metropolitan area. Estimated employment 690.

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

Where you sit in the distribution

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$122,130 · 50th
$60,48010th
$77,45025th
$122,13050th
$193,37075th
$320,29090th

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

Table 1 — Adjusted

$122,130 in Sheboygan buys what $129,900 buys across the country as a whole.

Sheboygan's regional price parity is 94.0 — 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 Wisconsin

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

Metro areaMedianAdjustedRPPvs. Sheboygan
Madison$126,620$130,20097.3+0.2%
Milwaukee$125,490$129,50096.9−0.3%
Sheboygan This page$122,130$129,90094.0
Janesville$121,540$129,70093.7−0.2%
Fond du Lac$114,410$124,80091.6−3.9%
Green Bay$112,500$120,90093.1−7.0%
Oshkosh$111,210$119,70092.9−7.9%
Appleton$109,890$118,90092.4−8.5%

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

Fig. 2 — Five-year trend

Nominal against real

The same median, once as published and once restated in 2025 dollars.

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Nominal, as published Real, in 2025 dollars US$ thousands

Published pay rose 0.9% over the five years to 2025. Adjusted for inflation it fell 15.0% — prices rose faster than pay since 2021. The two lines meet at the right edge by construction, since 2025 is the base year.

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.
Inflation
Real figures deflate by CPI-U annual averages (BLS, all items, US city average).
Employment
690 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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