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Wages by Area and Occupation

For pay-setting purposes - data include information on the level of difficulty and complexity of work.
For over 800 occupations - data are classified using the Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) System.
For about 400 industries - occupational wage data for sector, 3-, 4- and 5-digit NAICS (North American Industry Classification System) industries.
Data by occupation and gender - data for men and for women in 200 occupations (from the Current Population Survey) (TXT) (PDF)

For Census divisions - New England, Middle Atlantic, East North Central, West North Central, South Atlantic, East South Central, West South Central, Mountain, and Pacific.

By State - 50 States plus District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, and Virgin Islands.

For pay-setting purposes - data include information on the level of difficulty and complexity of work.
For 375 metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs), 34 metropolitan divisions, and over 170 nonmetropolitan areas - an MSA is made up of one or more counties and consists of a core area containing a substantial population nucleus, together with adjacent communities having a high degree of economic and social integration with that core; also, each MSA must have at least one urbanized area of 50,000 or more inhabitants. Eleven MSAs have subdivisions called metropolitan divisions.
For major metropolitan areas - detailed occupational wage information for approximately 80 metropolitan areas.

Additional BLS programs that publish wage data (though not by detailed occupation) are Employment Cost Trends, Current Employment Statistics, and Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages .