Average Salary in Ohio (OH)

Ohio's $65,720 median household income is below the national average, but the state's 90 cost-of-living index means dollars stretch further here than in most states east of the Mississippi. Ohio completed a multi-year tax reform in 2023 and 2024 that collapsed the income tax into a top marginal rate of 3.5%, with the first $26,050 of taxable income exempted entirely — one of the more generous exemption thresholds in the country. The economy is a story of two recoveries. Legacy manufacturing (auto assembly around Lordstown, steel in Youngstown) has stabilised after a brutal 2000s and 2010s. Meanwhile Columbus and Cincinnati have become unlikely boom markets, driven in part by Intel's $20B semiconductor fab investment in Licking County and a fintech cluster around JPMorgan Chase's second-largest campus. Healthcare is the state's single largest employer cluster, anchored by the Cleveland Clinic — consistently ranked among the world's top hospitals and Ohio's largest private employer. The $10.45/hour minimum wage is adjusted annually for inflation under a 2006 constitutional amendment, with a lower $3.93 tipped wage. Property taxes run around the national median. Wage, cost-of-living, and industry data follow.