Arecibo, 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 Arecibo, PR moved from $23,500 in May 2024 to $26,120 in May 2025 (+11.1%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Arecibo, PR sits +8.0 pp ahead of that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
Retail Salespersons shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Arecibo, PR
Retail Salespersons publishes $22,390 here versus $35,410 nationally (-36.8%; 2,260metro-area jobs).
- Retail Salespersons$22,390 in Arecibo, PR sits 36.8% below the national Retail Salespersons median of $35,410 (2,260 published local jobs).
Retail Salespersons and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Arecibo, PR; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 11640 · Arecibo, PR $33K mean
MEAN-TRACE · RPP-UNK · OCC-THIN · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-AHEAD · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST
- MEAN-TRACE #525/528
- RPP-UNK RPP n/a
- OCC-THIN 152 occs
- TOP-LEAD Industrial Pro… · $124K
- EMP-MIX Elementary S…
- TREND-AHEAD +8.0 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Mayaguez, PR
- BOOK-MOST 151 rows · May 2025
Read with Mayaguez, PR ($290 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 Arecibo, PR
Largest published OEWS footprints in Arecibo, PR
Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education and Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education lead published employment inside Arecibo, PR's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education 360 jobs · $61,230
- 2. Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education 360 jobs · $60,110
- 3. Teachers and Instructors, All Other 290 jobs · $59,850
- 4. General and Operations Managers 210 jobs · $60,110
- 5. Kindergarten Teachers, Except Special Education 160 jobs · $62,240
- 6. Pharmacists 130 jobs · $105,880
- 7. Middle School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education 110 jobs · $60,560
- 8. Industrial Engineers 100 jobs · $82,930
- 9. Financial Managers 100 jobs · $75,140
- 10. Administrative Services Managers 90 jobs · $64,070
- 11. Chief Executives 70 jobs · $86,270
- 12. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 60 jobs · $80,130
- 13. Industrial Production Managers 50 jobs · $124,020
- 14. Family Medicine Physicians 50 jobs · $101,580
- 15. First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives 50 jobs · $96,310
- 16. Medical and Health Services Managers 50 jobs · $83,050
- 17. Sales Managers 50 jobs · $72,860
- 18. Coaches and Scouts 50 jobs · $65,870
Occupations Tracked
152
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$33,444
employment-weighted, 151 complete rows
Top Salary
$124,020
Industrial Production Managers
Top-pay occupations in Arecibo, 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 Arecibo, PR
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Packers and Packagers, Hand | $21,840 |
| Cleaners of Vehicles and Equipment | $21,840 |
| Food Batchmakers | $21,840 |
| Highway Maintenance Workers | $21,840 |
| Legal Secretaries and Administrative Assistants | $21,840 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $21,840 |
| Home Health and Personal Care Aides | $21,840 |
| Postsecondary Teachers, All Other | $21,840 |
| Recreation Workers | $21,870 |
| Driver/Sales Workers | $21,890 |
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 ($33,444 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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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.