College Station-Bryan, TX Salaries
Local wages where BEA prices sit below the US average (RPP 91.0) - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in College Station-Bryan, TX moved from $43,010 in May 2024 to $44,470 in May 2025 (+3.4%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- College Station-Bryan, TX sits +0.3 pp near that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
Waiters and Waitresses shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in College Station-Bryan, TX
Waiters and Waitresses publishes $22,800 here versus $35,230 nationally (-35.3%; 2,410metro-area jobs). Next is Teaching Assistants, Postsecondary at $57,790 locally versus $42,910 nationally (+34.7%).
- Waiters and Waitresses$22,800 in College Station-Bryan, TX sits 35.3% below the national Waiters and Waitresses median of $35,230 (2,410 published local jobs).
- Teaching Assistants, Postsecondary$57,790 in College Station-Bryan, TX sits 34.7% above the national Teaching Assistants, Postsecondary median of $42,910 (4,370 published local jobs).
- Retail Salespersons$28,800 in College Station-Bryan, TX sits 18.7% below the national Retail Salespersons median of $35,410 (3,120 published local jobs).
- Customer Service Representatives$37,190 in College Station-Bryan, TX sits 16.9% below the national Customer Service Representatives median of $44,770 (2,500 published local jobs).
Waiters and Waitresses and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for College Station-Bryan, TX; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 17780 · College Station-Bryan, TX $59K mean
MEAN-MID · RPP-LOW · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-FULL
- MEAN-MID #233/528
- RPP-LOW 91.0
- OCC-MID 360 occs
- TOP-LEAD General Intern… · $326K
- EMP-MIX Engineering…
- TREND-INLINE +0.3 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Lancaster, PA
- BOOK-FULL 359 rows · May 2025
Read with Lancaster, PA (+$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 College Station-Bryan, TX
Where College Station-Bryan, TX already employs the upper wage tier
Engineering Teachers, Postsecondary and Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary lead published employment inside College Station-Bryan, TX's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Engineering Teachers, Postsecondary 1,160 jobs · $129,110
- 2. Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary 750 jobs · $164,660
- 3. Agricultural Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary 530 jobs · $126,050
- 4. Computer and Information Systems Managers 410 jobs · $135,540
- 5. Financial Managers 410 jobs · $132,280
- 6. Business Teachers, Postsecondary 400 jobs · $129,080
- 7. Lawyers 340 jobs · $134,800
- 8. Managers, All Other 300 jobs · $120,410
- 9. Marketing Managers 230 jobs · $121,780
- 10. Pharmacists 190 jobs · $136,310
- 11. Nurse Practitioners 180 jobs · $126,210
- 12. Physicians, All Other 160 jobs · $236,170
- 13. Architecture Teachers, Postsecondary 160 jobs · $128,670
- 14. Engineers, All Other 160 jobs · $121,440
- 15. Political Science Teachers, Postsecondary 130 jobs · $126,240
- 16. Atmospheric, Earth, Marine, and Space Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary 100 jobs · $160,550
- 17. Physics Teachers, Postsecondary 80 jobs · $167,090
- 18. General Internal Medicine Physicians 70 jobs · $326,090
Occupations Tracked
360
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$58,670
employment-weighted, 359 complete rows
Top Salary
$326,090
General Internal Medicine Physicians
Cost of Living
91.0
9% below US avg
Top-pay occupations in College Station-Bryan, TX, 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 College Station-Bryan, TX
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Bartenders | $20,460 |
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $20,960 |
| Substitute Teachers, Short-Term | $22,620 |
| Waiters and Waitresses | $22,800 |
| Educational Instruction and Library Workers, All Other | $22,900 |
| Food Servers, Nonrestaurant | $24,120 |
| Home Health and Personal Care Aides | $24,610 |
| Human Resources Assistants, Except Payroll and Timekeeping | $25,170 |
| Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service Workers | $25,690 |
| Cooks, All Other | $25,700 |
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 ($58,670 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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