Aguadilla, PR Salaries
Largest OEWS employment footprints with published wages - BLS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Aguadilla, PR moved from $23,120 in May 2024 to $26,480 in May 2025 (+14.5%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Aguadilla, PR sits +11.4 pp ahead of that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
Based on wage level, year-over-year wage growth, and regional-price-parity-adjusted purchasing power from BLS and BEA sources, not job availability, industry mix, or day-to-day livability.
Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Aguadilla, PR
Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators publishes $24,960 here versus $44,650 nationally (-44.1%; 2,860metro-area jobs). Next is Retail Salespersons at $21,950 locally versus $35,410 nationally (-38.0%).
- Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators$24,960 in Aguadilla, PR sits 44.1% below the national Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators median of $44,650 (2,860 published local jobs).
- Retail Salespersons$21,950 in Aguadilla, PR sits 38.0% below the national Retail Salespersons median of $35,410 (2,660 published local jobs).
Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Aguadilla, PR; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 10380 · Aguadilla, PR $36K mean
MEAN-TRACE · RPP-UNK · OCC-THIN · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-AHEAD · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST
- MEAN-TRACE #523/528
- RPP-UNK RPP n/a
- OCC-THIN 190 occs
- TOP-LEAD Industrial Pro… · $147K
- EMP-MIX Industrial E…
- TREND-AHEAD +11.4 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Ponce, PR
- BOOK-MOST 188 rows · May 2025
Read with Ponce, PR ($1,231 on published-row mean) · Fastest-growing occupations
Instrument codes from this MSA’s OEWS published-row mean, BEA RPP, occupation book, employment lead, All Occupations pay change, and nearest peer, not a moving recommendation.
Published-row mean neighbourhood around Aguadilla, PR
Largest published OEWS footprints in Aguadilla, PR
Industrial Engineers and Software Developers lead published employment inside Aguadilla, PR's top-pay sample, order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Industrial Engineers 280 jobs · $84,030
- 2. Software Developers 270 jobs · $77,840
- 3. Computer Hardware Engineers 200 jobs · $98,520
- 4. Pharmacists 170 jobs · $104,900
- 5. Managers, All Other 160 jobs · $101,930
- 6. Chief Executives 130 jobs · $86,100
- 7. Financial Managers 120 jobs · $77,020
- 8. Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products 100 jobs · $81,330
- 9. Architectural and Engineering Managers 90 jobs · $135,810
- 10. Sales Managers 80 jobs · $79,420
- 11. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 80 jobs · $78,430
- 12. Lawyers 60 jobs · $78,480
- 13. Financial and Investment Analysts 60 jobs · $75,630
- 14. Industrial Production Managers 50 jobs · $146,710
- 15. Education Administrators, All Other 50 jobs · $124,630
- 16. Computer and Information Systems Managers 50 jobs · $122,090
- 17. Electrical Engineers 50 jobs · $98,540
- 18. School Psychologists 50 jobs · $97,210
Occupations Tracked
190
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$35,604
employment-weighted, 188 complete rows
Top Salary
$146,710
Industrial Production Managers
Top-pay occupations in Aguadilla, PR, by employment
Same top-pay sample as the salary ranking, sorted by published local jobs so the title sequence follows the OEWS mix.
Lowest Paying Jobs in Aguadilla, PR
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Refuse and Recyclable Material Collectors | $21,840 |
| Packers and Packagers, Hand | $21,840 |
| Cleaners of Vehicles and Equipment | $21,840 |
| Shuttle Drivers and Chauffeurs | $21,840 |
| Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders | $21,840 |
| Food Batchmakers | $21,840 |
| Bakers | $21,840 |
| Helpers--Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers | $21,840 |
| Highway Maintenance Workers | $21,840 |
| Interviewers, Except Eligibility and Loan | $21,840 |
Other BLS Wage Areas in PR
Other metropolitan or nonmetropolitan OEWS areas assigned to the same state. Cross-state pay and employment peers live in Nationwide similar metros below.
Nationwide metros with similar published-row mean pay or employment scale
Two OEWS peer sets outside PR. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($35,604 here) and summed published employment.
Similar mean wage
Nearest other metros by employment-weighted published-row annual mean wage.
Peers are nearest-neighbor matches on BLS OEWS employment-weighted published-row mean wage and summed occupation employment. Employment peers exclude metros already listed in the mean-wage column so the two link sets stay distinct. Mean wage here is not a worker-level median.
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How to use Aguadilla, PR wage figures in a real decision
- Industrial Production Managers leads published medians in Aguadilla, PR at $146,710/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Industrial Production Managers
- Aguadilla, PR's employment-weighted published-row mean is $35,604 across 188 occupation rows with employment estimates. Understanding BLS data
- Compare this metropolitan statistical area against the statewide occupation table for PR before treating one geography as the other. State wage page
BLS OEWS estimates reflect the May 2025 reference period; small occupation-area cells can be suppressed, and figures are not employer offers.
Source data and WageDex calculations are identified in context on this page. Occupation rows use BLS OEWS May 2025. The metro benchmark is WageDex's employment-weighted mean of published occupation means; where BEA RPP is available, the price-level figure divides that benchmark by the published area parity. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.