Corpus Christi, TX Salaries
Highest published occupation medians in Corpus Christi, TX - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Corpus Christi, TX moved from $43,770 in May 2024 to $45,350 in May 2025 (+3.6%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Corpus Christi, TX sits +0.5 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 Corpus Christi, TX
Waiters and Waitresses publishes $22,820 here versus $35,230 nationally (-35.2%; 3,390metro-area jobs). Next is Home Health and Personal Care Aides at $23,440 locally versus $35,800 nationally (-34.5%).
- Waiters and Waitresses$22,820 in Corpus Christi, TX sits 35.2% below the national Waiters and Waitresses median of $35,230 (3,390 published local jobs).
- Home Health and Personal Care Aides$23,440 in Corpus Christi, TX sits 34.5% below the national Home Health and Personal Care Aides median of $35,800 (6,630 published local jobs).
- First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$33,910 in Corpus Christi, TX sits 23.1% below the national First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers median of $44,080 (2,440 published local jobs).
- Cooks, Restaurant$30,670 in Corpus Christi, TX sits 18.0% below the national Cooks, Restaurant median of $37,390 (2,130 published local jobs).
Waiters and Waitresses and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Corpus Christi, TX; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 18580 · Corpus Christi, TX $56K mean
MEAN-LOW · RPP-LOW · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-FULL
- MEAN-LOW #323/528
- RPP-LOW 92.7
- OCC-MID 398 occs
- TOP-LEAD Physicians, Pa… · $373K
- EMP-MIX Lawyers
- TREND-INLINE +0.5 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Lebanon, PA
- BOOK-FULL 396 rows · May 2025
Read with Lebanon, PA (+$19 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 Corpus Christi, TX
Employment scale inside Corpus Christi, TX's top-pay list
Lawyers and Managers, All Other lead published employment inside Corpus Christi, TX's top-pay sample, order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Lawyers 740 jobs · $129,180
- 2. Managers, All Other 600 jobs · $124,740
- 3. Financial Managers 560 jobs · $138,150
- 4. Software Developers 520 jobs · $123,580
- 5. Nurse Practitioners 350 jobs · $133,810
- 6. Physicians, All Other 340 jobs · $253,530
- 7. Pharmacists 330 jobs · $136,150
- 8. Computer and Information Systems Managers 320 jobs · $153,870
- 9. Mechanical Engineers 280 jobs · $124,340
- 10. Industrial Production Managers 260 jobs · $131,180
- 11. Electrical Engineers 230 jobs · $124,800
- 12. Human Resources Managers 210 jobs · $124,290
- 13. Physician Assistants 150 jobs · $134,360
- 14. Architectural and Engineering Managers 130 jobs · $158,430
- 15. Petroleum Engineers 110 jobs · $155,870
- 16. Chemical Engineers 100 jobs · $126,690
- 17. Chief Executives 90 jobs · $229,340
- 18. Dentists, General 90 jobs · $180,630
Occupations Tracked
398
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$56,143
employment-weighted, 396 complete rows
Top Salary
$373,420
Physicians, Pathologists
Cost of Living
92.7
7% below US avg
Highest Paying Jobs in Corpus Christi, TX
| # | Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Physicians, Pathologists | $373,420 |
| 2 | Physicians, All Other | $253,530 |
| 3 | Chief Executives | $229,340 |
| 4 | General Internal Medicine Physicians | $206,410 |
| 5 | Dentists, General | $180,630 |
| 6 | Architectural and Engineering Managers | $158,430 |
| 7 | Petroleum Engineers | $155,870 |
| 8 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $153,870 |
| 9 | Pediatricians, General | $148,320 |
| 10 | Judges, Magistrate Judges, and Magistrates | $140,090 |
| 11 | Financial Managers | $138,150 |
| 12 | Optometrists | $138,120 |
| 13 | Pharmacists | $136,150 |
| 14 | Physician Assistants | $134,360 |
| 15 | Nurse Practitioners | $133,810 |
| 16 | Industrial Production Managers | $131,180 |
| 17 | Lawyers | $129,180 |
| 18 | Chemical Engineers | $126,690 |
| 19 | Veterinarians | $126,140 |
| 20 | Environmental Engineers | $125,330 |
| 21 | Electrical Engineers | $124,800 |
| 22 | Managers, All Other | $124,740 |
| 23 | Mechanical Engineers | $124,340 |
| 24 | Human Resources Managers | $124,290 |
| 25 | Software Developers | $123,580 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in Corpus Christi, TX
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Bartenders | $20,970 |
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $21,280 |
| Waiters and Waitresses | $22,820 |
| Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary | $23,270 |
| Ushers, Lobby Attendants, and Ticket Takers | $23,290 |
| Home Health and Personal Care Aides | $23,440 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $23,730 |
| Food Servers, Nonrestaurant | $25,470 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $25,580 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $25,630 |
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 ($56,143 here) and summed published employment.
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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 Corpus Christi, TX wage figures in a real decision
- Physicians, Pathologists leads published medians in Corpus Christi, TX at $373,420/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Physicians, Pathologists
- The employment-weighted published-row mean of $56,143 adjusts to about $60,583 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 92.7. 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.