Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX Salaries
Local wages where BEA prices sit below the US average (RPP 90.0) - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX moved from $46,740 in May 2024 to $48,630 in May 2025 (+4.0%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX sits +0.9 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.
Waiters and Waitresses shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX
Waiters and Waitresses publishes $22,400 here versus $35,230 nationally (-36.4%; 2,250metro-area jobs). Next is Home Health and Personal Care Aides at $23,510 locally versus $35,800 nationally (-34.3%).
- Waiters and Waitresses$22,400 in Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX sits 36.4% below the national Waiters and Waitresses median of $35,230 (2,250 published local jobs).
- Home Health and Personal Care Aides$23,510 in Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX sits 34.3% below the national Home Health and Personal Care Aides median of $35,800 (3,390 published local jobs).
- Registered Nurses$81,180 in Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX sits 16.8% below the national Registered Nurses median of $97,550 (3,100 published local jobs).
- Retail Salespersons$29,810 in Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX sits 15.8% below the national Retail Salespersons median of $35,410 (3,840 published local jobs).
Waiters and Waitresses and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 13140 · Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX $61K mean
MEAN-MID · RPP-LOW · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-FULL
- MEAN-MID #167/528
- RPP-LOW 90.0
- OCC-MID 372 occs
- TOP-LEAD Physicians, Al… · $314K
- EMP-MIX Managers, Al…
- TREND-INLINE +0.9 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Grand Junction, CO
- BOOK-FULL 370 rows · May 2025
Read with Grand Junction, CO (+$10 on published-row mean) · Salary vs. cost of living
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 Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX
Where Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX already employs the upper wage tier
Managers, All Other and Industrial Production Managers lead published employment inside Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX's top-pay sample, order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Managers, All Other 580 jobs · $133,800
- 2. Industrial Production Managers 550 jobs · $150,860
- 3. Financial Managers 520 jobs · $149,360
- 4. Lawyers 500 jobs · $131,680
- 5. Software Developers 420 jobs · $124,470
- 6. Electrical Engineers 360 jobs · $124,570
- 7. Computer and Information Systems Managers 310 jobs · $154,070
- 8. Architectural and Engineering Managers 260 jobs · $168,480
- 9. Nurse Practitioners 240 jobs · $133,130
- 10. Pharmacists 230 jobs · $137,570
- 11. Marketing Managers 230 jobs · $129,500
- 12. Human Resources Managers 190 jobs · $130,260
- 13. Physicians, All Other 170 jobs · $314,220
- 14. Chemical Engineers 140 jobs · $129,850
- 15. Purchasing Managers 120 jobs · $129,410
- 16. Petroleum Engineers 90 jobs · $167,600
- 17. Physician Assistants 90 jobs · $132,920
- 18. Chief Executives 80 jobs · $226,720
Occupations Tracked
372
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$61,220
employment-weighted, 370 complete rows
Top Salary
$314,220
Physicians, All Other
Cost of Living
90.0
10% below US avg
Top-pay occupations in Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX, by employment
Same top-pay sample as the salary ranking, sorted by published local jobs so the title sequence follows the OEWS mix.
| # | Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Managers, All Other | $133,800 |
| 2 | Industrial Production Managers | $150,860 |
| 3 | Financial Managers | $149,360 |
| 4 | Lawyers | $131,680 |
| 5 | Software Developers | $124,470 |
| 6 | Electrical Engineers | $124,570 |
| 7 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $154,070 |
| 8 | Architectural and Engineering Managers | $168,480 |
| 9 | Nurse Practitioners | $133,130 |
| 10 | Pharmacists | $137,570 |
| 11 | Marketing Managers | $129,500 |
| 12 | Human Resources Managers | $130,260 |
| 13 | Physicians, All Other | $314,220 |
| 14 | Chemical Engineers | $129,850 |
| 15 | Purchasing Managers | $129,410 |
| 16 | Petroleum Engineers | $167,600 |
| 17 | Physician Assistants | $132,920 |
| 18 | Chief Executives | $226,720 |
| 19 | Environmental Engineers | $135,240 |
| 20 | Dentists, General | $157,770 |
| 21 | Public Relations Managers | $146,970 |
| 22 | Family Medicine Physicians | $249,990 |
| 23 | Optometrists | $131,060 |
| 24 | Natural Sciences Managers | $128,910 |
| 25 | Judges, Magistrate Judges, and Magistrates | $132,550 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $20,960 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $22,270 |
| Waiters and Waitresses | $22,400 |
| Bartenders | $22,600 |
| Childcare Workers | $22,940 |
| Home Health and Personal Care Aides | $23,510 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $23,550 |
| Ushers, Lobby Attendants, and Ticket Takers | $24,350 |
| Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary | $24,470 |
| Cooks, Fast Food | $26,610 |
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 ($61,220 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 Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX wage figures in a real decision
- Physicians, All Other leads published medians in Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX at $314,220/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Physicians, All Other
- The employment-weighted published-row mean of $61,220 adjusts to about $67,987 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 90.0. 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.