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Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks

Kennewick-Richland, WA metropolitan area. Estimated employment 310.

Data released May 2025 BLS OEWS · SOC 43-5061
Fig. 1 — The wage rule

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$62,940 · 50th
$42,25010th
$49,29025th
$62,94050th
$87,70075th
$106,48090th

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

Table 1 — Adjusted

$62,940 in Kennewick buys what $62,900 buys across the country as a whole.

Kennewick's regional price parity is 100.1 — almost exactly the national average — the nominal figure is close to the real one here, which is not true of most large metros. Adjusted figures for other metros are in the nearby-metros table below.

Table 2 — Nearby metros

The same job, elsewhere in Washington

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

Metro areaMedianAdjustedRPPvs. Kennewick
Seattle$81,850$73,700111.1+17.1%
Bremerton$76,070$72,000105.6+14.5%
Longview$75,190$77,10097.5+22.6%
Walla Walla$67,000$68,00098.5+8.1%
Kennewick This page$62,940$62,900100.1
Mount Vernon$61,670$60,200102.4−4.3%
Spokane$60,110$59,900100.3−4.8%
Bellingham$57,150$55,300103.3−12.1%

Price parity and difference against Kennewick 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 14.9% over the five years to 2025. Adjusted for inflation it fell 3.3% — 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
310 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
Occupation
SOC 43-5061, Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks. Mapped to our taxonomy as production-planning-and-expediting-clerks.

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