Cuyahoga County · Ohio
Cleveland, OH 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 Cleveland, OH earn a median of $32,936 a year, 26% below the national median of $44,587. Unemployment is 11.5% against 5.2% nationally, and education, health care & social assistance is the largest employer at 26.3% of jobs.
- Median earnings
- $32,936#90 of 94 metros
- Unemployment rate
- 11.5%US 5.2%
- Labor force participation
- 60%US 63.5%
- People employed
- 158,228Civilian employed, age 16+
What Cleveland does for a living
Share of the civilian employed population by industry, largest first.
- Education, health care & social assistance26.3%
- Manufacturing11.9%
- Professional, scientific & management11.4%
- Arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodation & food11.1%
- Retail trade10.9%
- Transportation, warehousing & utilities6.2%
- Finance, insurance & real estate5.7%
- Other services, except public administration4.5%
- Construction4.4%
- Public administration3.9%
- Wholesale trade2.1%
- Information1.2%
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing, hunting & mining0.2%
Related data for Cleveland
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%.