Douglas County · Nebraska
Omaha, NE jobs and wages
Who works here, what they earn, and which industries carry the local economy — Census ACS estimates for the city itself, not the wider metro.
Quick answer
Workers in Omaha, NE earn a median of $43,930 a year, 1% below the national median of $44,587. Unemployment is 4.2% against 5.2% nationally, and education, health care & social assistance is the largest employer at 24.5% of jobs.
- Median earnings
- $43,930#38 of 94 metros
- Unemployment rate
- 4.2%US 5.2%
- Labor force participation
- 69.7%US 63.5%
- People employed
- 253,542Civilian employed, age 16+
What Omaha does for a living
Share of the civilian employed population by industry, largest first.
- Education, health care & social assistance24.5%
- Professional, scientific & management13.4%
- Finance, insurance & real estate10.3%
- Retail trade10.2%
- Manufacturing8.5%
- Arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodation & food8.3%
- Construction7.3%
- Transportation, warehousing & utilities5.5%
- Other services, except public administration4.4%
- Public administration2.7%
- Wholesale trade2.3%
- Information1.7%
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing, hunting & mining0.8%
Related data for Omaha
Earnings only mean something next to what things cost.
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates
Tables B23025, B20002 and C24030, 2019-2023 ACS 5-year. Industry shares combine the male and female columns of C24030 and are rounded, so they may not total exactly 100%.