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.
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 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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How to use College Station-Bryan, TX wage figures in a real decision
- General Internal Medicine Physicians leads published medians in College Station-Bryan, TX at $326,090/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. General Internal Medicine Physicians
- The employment-weighted published-row mean of $58,670 adjusts to about $64,507 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 91.0. 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.