Spokane County · Washington
Spokane, WA 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 Spokane, WA earn a median of $40,334 a year, 10% below the national median of $44,587. Unemployment is 6% against 5.2% nationally, and education, health care & social assistance is the largest employer at 26.9% of jobs.
- Median earnings
- $40,334#65 of 94 metros
- Unemployment rate
- 6%US 5.2%
- Labor force participation
- 62.3%US 63.5%
- People employed
- 109,337Civilian employed, age 16+
What Spokane does for a living
Share of the civilian employed population by industry, largest first.
- Education, health care & social assistance26.9%
- Retail trade12.3%
- Professional, scientific & management11.9%
- Arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodation & food10.3%
- Finance, insurance & real estate7%
- Manufacturing6.7%
- Construction5.5%
- Transportation, warehousing & utilities5.2%
- Other services, except public administration4.8%
- Public administration4.4%
- Wholesale trade2.3%
- Information1.6%
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing, hunting & mining1.1%
Related data for Spokane
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%.