Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX Salaries

Highest published occupation medians in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX - BLS OEWS May 2025

Observed metro pay change

What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025

May 2024 → May 2025
  • BLS's published All Occupations median in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX moved from $49,740 in May 2024 to $51,440 in May 2025 (+3.4%).
  • Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
  • Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX sits +0.3 pp near that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.

Multiple Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX

Multiple Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic publishes $80,110 here versus $47,180 nationally (+69.8%; 5,440metro-area jobs). Next is Chief Executives at $320,060 locally versus $213,990 nationally (+49.6%).

  1. Multiple Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic$80,110 in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX sits 69.8% above the national Multiple Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic median of $47,180 (5,440 published local jobs).
  2. Chief Executives$320,060 in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX sits 49.6% above the national Chief Executives median of $213,990 (2,580 published local jobs).
  3. Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers$21,050 in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX sits 38.1% below the national Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers median of $33,980 (18,600 published local jobs).
  4. Aircraft Structure, Surfaces, Rigging, and Systems Assemblers$86,520 in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX sits 32.3% above the national Aircraft Structure, Surfaces, Rigging, and Systems Assemblers median of $65,380 (2,450 published local jobs).

Multiple Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.

BLS OEWS metro wage desk

MSA 19100 · Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX $70K mean

MEAN-MEGA · RPP-MID · OCC-FULL · TOP-LEAD · EMP-HEAVY · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-FULL

  • MEAN-MEGA #44/528
  • RPP-MID 103.1
  • OCC-FULL 712 occs
  • TOP-LEAD Orthopedic Sur… · $667K
  • EMP-HEAVY Computer and…
  • TREND-INLINE +0.3 pp
  • PHOTO-FINISH Mount Vernon-Ana…
  • BOOK-FULL 686 rows · May 2025

Read with Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA ($1 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 Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington

Guayama, PR · lowest mean: $32KGuayama, PR · lowest mean$32KDallas-Fort Worth-Ar… · this MSA: $70KDallas-Fort Worth-Ar… · this…$70KMount Vernon-Anacort… · near: $70KMount Vernon-Anacort… · near$70KAnn Arbor, MI · near: $70KAnn Arbor, MI · near$70KSalt Lake City-Murra… · near: $71KSalt Lake City-Murra… · near$71KMadison, WI · near: $71KMadison, WI · near$71KSan Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · highest mean: $119KSan Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · high…$119K
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Label Value
Guayama, PR · lowest mean $32K
Dallas-Fort Worth-Ar… · this MSA $70K
Mount Vernon-Anacort… · near $70K
Ann Arbor, MI · near $70K
Salt Lake City-Murra… · near $71K
Madison, WI · near $71K
San Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · highest mean $119K

Employment scale inside Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX's top-pay list

Computer and Information Systems Managers and Financial Managers lead published employment inside Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.

  1. 1. Computer and Information Systems Managers 30,690 jobs · $173,810
  2. 2. Financial Managers 26,600 jobs · $169,200
  3. 3. Physicians, All Other 13,580 jobs · $222,410
  4. 4. Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers 5,980 jobs · $212,810
  5. 5. Architectural and Engineering Managers 5,970 jobs · $172,160
  6. 6. Dentists, General 2,890 jobs · $179,990
  7. 7. Chief Executives 2,580 jobs · $320,060
  8. 8. Family Medicine Physicians 2,240 jobs · $259,310
  9. 9. General Internal Medicine Physicians 1,350 jobs · $276,520
  10. 10. Nurse Anesthetists 1,290 jobs · $218,650
  11. 11. Anesthesiologists 950 jobs · $218,060
  12. 12. Cardiologists 940 jobs · $403,340
  13. 13. Air Traffic Controllers 800 jobs · $186,510
  14. 14. Obstetricians and Gynecologists 770 jobs · $321,260
  15. 15. Physicians, Pathologists 480 jobs · $316,150
  16. 16. Surgeons, All Other 470 jobs · $494,800
  17. 17. Psychiatrists 410 jobs · $240,930
  18. 18. Pediatricians, General 340 jobs · $242,160

Occupations Tracked

712

with wage data

Published-Row Mean

$70,367

employment-weighted, 686 complete rows

Top Salary

$666,930

Orthopedic Surgeons, Except Pediatric

Cost of Living

103.1

3% above US avg

Price-level adjustment: Dividing the derived published-row mean of $70,367 by the metro RPP gives $68,258 on a national-price basis. This is not an after-tax income or a personal cost-of-living result.

Highest Paying Jobs in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX

# Occupation Median Salary
1 Orthopedic Surgeons, Except Pediatric $666,930
2 Surgeons, All Other $494,800
3 Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons $431,910
4 Cardiologists $403,340
5 Dentists, All Other Specialists $402,600
6 Neurologists $360,640
7 Ophthalmologists, Except Pediatric $359,980
8 Emergency Medicine Physicians $324,210
9 Obstetricians and Gynecologists $321,260
10 Chief Executives $320,060
11 Physicians, Pathologists $316,150
12 General Internal Medicine Physicians $276,520
13 Family Medicine Physicians $259,310
14 Pediatricians, General $242,160
15 Psychiatrists $240,930
16 Dermatologists $232,910
17 Physicians, All Other $222,410
18 Nurse Anesthetists $218,650
19 Anesthesiologists $218,060
20 Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers $212,810
21 Air Traffic Controllers $186,510
22 Dentists, General $179,990
23 Computer and Information Systems Managers $173,810
24 Architectural and Engineering Managers $172,160
25 Financial Managers $169,200

Lowest Paying Jobs in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX

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 ($70,367 here) and summed published employment.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the average salary in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX?
Across the 686 occupation rows for Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX with both a published mean wage and employment estimate, weighting each mean by employment gives $70,367/year (BLS OEWS May 2025). The page has 712 occupations with a published median, a different denominator. This WageDex-derived benchmark is not a BLS-published All Occupations metro mean or median and does not state what a typical local worker earns. For contrast, averaging the medians of only the 25 highest-paying occupations gives $296,292, which describes the displayed top tier only.
Which published medians lead Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington?
Orthopedic Surgeons, Except Pediatric holds the highest published median in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX at $666,930/year (BLS OEWS May 2025). Next is Surgeons, All Other at $494,800/year. These are occupation medians for this metropolitan statistical area, not employer offers.
What is the cost of living in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX?
Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX has a Regional Price Parity of 103.1, meaning prices are 3% above the national average. Dividing the derived published-row mean of $70,367 by the RPP gives a national-price-equivalent benchmark of $68,258.
Where does BLS salary data for Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington come from?
All salary figures are Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS May 2025 estimates for this metropolitan statistical area. OEWS surveys approximately 1.1 million business establishments. Medians and means on this page are the published occupation-level estimates for the area — not job-board scrapes or modeled employer offers.

Last updated: May 2025 (BLS OEWS annual release). Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS May 2025. Cost-of-living index: BEA Regional Price Parities, 2024.

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.

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