What is the average weekly pay in Yancey County?

Across the 11 trades on this page, the middle one pays $860 a week. The highest pays $1,039 and the lowest $363.

Where do these numbers come from?

From the payroll that employers in Yancey County report to the government by law for unemployment insurance, published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics for 2024. They are not salaries people report about themselves.

Why is my trade not listed?

The government hides the pay for a trade when a county has few employers in it, because the figure would point at a specific business. We leave those out rather than show a zero.

Yancey County · North Carolina · United States

What trades pay in Yancey County

This is what each kind of business actually pays in Yancey County. The numbers come from the payroll that employers report to the government by law, not from salaries people type into a website.

$860 Median weekly pay across these 11 trades. $1,039 — $363.

Weekly pay, highest to lowest

Trade	Per week	vs 2023
Other specialty trade contractorsgroupNAICS 2389 · 13 businesses · 135 employees	$1,039$54,019 a year	-1.7%down
Real estate agents and brokersNAICS 531210 · 12 businesses · 10 employees	$1,019$52,994 a year	-3.7%down
Plumbing, electrical and HVAC contractorsgroupNAICS 2382 · 12 businesses · 37 employees	$984$51,178 a year	+5.0%up
Offices of dentistsNAICS 621210 · 4 businesses · 24 employees	$915$47,590 a year	+5.2%up
Offices of lawyersNAICS 541110 · 6 businesses · 12 employees	$908$47,211 a year	-4.6%down
General automotive repairNAICS 811111 · 3 businesses · 10 employees	$860$44,703 a year	+11.8%up
Long-distance truck driving (general freight)NAICS 484121 · 6 businesses · 21 employees	$838$43,584 a year	+5.0%up
Landscaping servicesNAICS 561730 · 9 businesses · 47 employees	$753$39,156 a year	+1.1%up
Child day care servicesNAICS 624410 · 8 businesses · 44 employees	$449$23,374 a year	+24.0%up
Full-service restaurantsNAICS 722511 · 13 businesses · 130 employees	$365$18,992 a year	+9.0%up
Limited-service restaurantsNAICS 722513 · 9 businesses · 178 employees	$363$18,894 a year	-0.5%flat

What this number is, and what it is not

It is the average of the entire payroll of that kind of business, split across everyone on it: the helper who started yesterday, the twenty-year veteran, and the person running the office. An experienced worker earns more than the average for their line; someone starting out, less.

Rows marked group are groups because the government does not publish plumbing, electrical and HVAC separately at the county level. We would rather say so than invent the breakdown.

Trades where the government hides the pay — because there are few employers and you could tell who we mean — are left out instead of shown as zero.

How the county is doing

Businesses1,051

Employees7,905

Annual payroll$266,366

Net movement of people+196People per year, arrivals minus departures.

Where people move

The counties that take in the most people from Yancey County. Same trade, different pay.

Other flows - Same State219
Other flows - South206
Other flows - Different State206
Mitchell County143

Other counties in North Carolina

The same trades, priced differently a county over.

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What is the average weekly pay in Yancey County?: Across the 11 trades on this page, the middle one pays $860 a week. The highest pays $1,039 and the lowest $363.
Where do these numbers come from?: From the payroll that employers in Yancey County report to the government by law for unemployment insurance, published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics for 2024. They are not salaries people report about themselves.
Why is my trade not listed?: The government hides the pay for a trade when a county has few employers in it, because the figure would point at a specific business. We leave those out rather than show a zero.