Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX Salaries
Highest published occupation medians in Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX moved from $52,610 in May 2024 to $56,950 in May 2025 (+8.2%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX sits +5.1 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.
Bartenders shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX
Bartenders publishes $23,670 here versus $34,340 nationally (-31.1%; 7,130metro-area jobs). Next is Cooks, Fast Food at $38,560 locally versus $30,890 nationally (+24.8%).
- Bartenders$23,670 in Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX sits 31.1% below the national Bartenders median of $34,340 (7,130 published local jobs).
- Cooks, Fast Food$38,560 in Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX sits 24.8% above the national Cooks, Fast Food median of $30,890 (4,540 published local jobs).
- Waiters and Waitresses$27,260 in Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX sits 22.6% below the national Waiters and Waitresses median of $35,230 (19,170 published local jobs).
- Exercise Trainers and Group Fitness Instructors$37,120 in Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX sits 21.3% below the national Exercise Trainers and Group Fitness Instructors median of $47,160 (3,290 published local jobs).
Bartenders and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 12420 · Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX $75K mean
MEAN-MEGA · RPP-MID · OCC-MOST · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-AHEAD · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-FULL
- MEAN-MEGA #21/528
- RPP-MID 98.1
- OCC-MOST 598 occs
- TOP-LEAD Physicians, Pa… · $363K
- EMP-MIX Computer and…
- TREND-AHEAD +5.1 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Minneapolis-St.…
- BOOK-FULL 580 rows · May 2025
Read with Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI ($388 on published-row mean) · Highest-paying careers
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 Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos
Employment scale inside Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX's top-pay list
Computer and Information Systems Managers and Sales Managers lead published employment inside Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX's top-pay sample, order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Computer and Information Systems Managers 11,050 jobs · $176,990
- 2. Sales Managers 9,880 jobs · $151,760
- 3. Lawyers 7,540 jobs · $153,330
- 4. Financial Managers 7,210 jobs · $167,180
- 5. Marketing Managers 7,170 jobs · $164,920
- 6. Computer Hardware Engineers 3,850 jobs · $165,530
- 7. Architectural and Engineering Managers 3,130 jobs · $176,540
- 8. Electronics Engineers, Except Computer 1,960 jobs · $162,960
- 9. Pharmacists 1,800 jobs · $151,290
- 10. Physicians, All Other 1,550 jobs · $276,600
- 11. Chief Executives 950 jobs · $288,150
- 12. Dentists, General 820 jobs · $188,190
- 13. Judges, Magistrate Judges, and Magistrates 710 jobs · $153,990
- 14. Nurse Anesthetists 480 jobs · $244,990
- 15. Compensation and Benefits Managers 310 jobs · $148,650
- 16. Family Medicine Physicians 250 jobs · $263,070
- 17. General Internal Medicine Physicians 220 jobs · $256,940
- 18. Psychiatrists 150 jobs · $236,340
Occupations Tracked
598
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$74,621
employment-weighted, 580 complete rows
Top Salary
$362,620
Physicians, Pathologists
Cost of Living
98.1
2% below US avg
Highest Paying Jobs in Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX
| # | Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Physicians, Pathologists | $362,620 |
| 2 | Cardiologists | $341,080 |
| 3 | Chief Executives | $288,150 |
| 4 | Dentists, All Other Specialists | $281,940 |
| 5 | Physicians, All Other | $276,600 |
| 6 | Surgeons, All Other | $271,390 |
| 7 | Family Medicine Physicians | $263,070 |
| 8 | General Internal Medicine Physicians | $256,940 |
| 9 | Nurse Anesthetists | $244,990 |
| 10 | Psychiatrists | $236,340 |
| 11 | Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers | $210,750 |
| 12 | Dentists, General | $188,190 |
| 13 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $176,990 |
| 14 | Architectural and Engineering Managers | $176,540 |
| 15 | Pediatricians, General | $175,680 |
| 16 | Petroleum Engineers | $168,860 |
| 17 | Financial Managers | $167,180 |
| 18 | Computer Hardware Engineers | $165,530 |
| 19 | Marketing Managers | $164,920 |
| 20 | Electronics Engineers, Except Computer | $162,960 |
| 21 | Judges, Magistrate Judges, and Magistrates | $153,990 |
| 22 | Lawyers | $153,330 |
| 23 | Sales Managers | $151,760 |
| 24 | Pharmacists | $151,290 |
| 25 | Compensation and Benefits Managers | $148,650 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Bartenders | $23,670 |
| Costume Attendants | $26,380 |
| Entertainment Attendants and Related Workers, All Other | $26,820 |
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $27,260 |
| Waiters and Waitresses | $27,260 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $27,760 |
| Home Health and Personal Care Aides | $28,370 |
| Childcare Workers | $28,470 |
| Ushers, Lobby Attendants, and Ticket Takers | $28,520 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $29,130 |
Other BLS Wage Areas in TX
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 TX. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($74,621 here) and summed published employment.
Similar mean wage
Nearest other metros by employment-weighted published-row annual mean wage.
Similar employment scale
Nearest headcount peers (floor 100,000 summed published jobs), distinct from the mean-wage column.
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 Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX wage figures in a real decision
- Physicians, Pathologists leads published medians in Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX at $362,620/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Physicians, Pathologists
- The employment-weighted published-row mean of $74,621 adjusts to about $76,093 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 98.1. Salary vs cost of living
- Compare this metropolitan statistical area against the statewide occupation table for TX 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.