Eagle Pass, TX Salaries
Local wages where BEA prices sit below the US average (RPP 83.8) - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Eagle Pass, TX moved from $33,640 in May 2024 to $35,560 in May 2025 (+5.7%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Eagle Pass, TX sits +2.6 pp ahead of that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 20580 · Eagle Pass, TX $48K mean
MEAN-TRACE · RPP-QUIET · OCC-THIN · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-AHEAD · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-THIN
- MEAN-TRACE #507/528
- RPP-QUIET 83.8
- OCC-THIN 72 occs
- TOP-LEAD Managers, All… · $123K
- EMP-MIX Detectives a…
- TREND-AHEAD +2.6 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Laredo, TX
- BOOK-THIN 71 rows · May 2025
Read with Laredo, TX (+$5 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 Eagle Pass, TX
Where Eagle Pass, TX already employs the upper wage tier
Detectives and Criminal Investigators and General and Operations Managers lead published employment inside Eagle Pass, TX's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Detectives and Criminal Investigators 590 jobs · $91,560
- 2. General and Operations Managers 420 jobs · $73,540
- 3. Compliance Officers 370 jobs · $88,100
- 4. Registered Nurses 340 jobs · $73,660
- 5. Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers 250 jobs · $58,600
- 6. Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers 230 jobs · $61,050
- 7. First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers 190 jobs · $50,690
- 8. Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses 160 jobs · $57,250
- 9. Managers, All Other 130 jobs · $122,930
- 10. Medical and Health Services Managers 90 jobs · $99,360
- 11. Business Operations Specialists, All Other 90 jobs · $88,710
- 12. Accountants and Auditors 80 jobs · $65,900
- 13. Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors 70 jobs · $86,520
- 14. Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel 70 jobs · $49,380
- 15. Lawyers 60 jobs · $122,150
- 16. First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers 50 jobs · $62,990
- 17. Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators 50 jobs · $46,920
- 18. Human Resources Specialists 50 jobs · $46,630
Occupations Tracked
72
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$47,624
employment-weighted, 71 complete rows
Top Salary
$122,930
Managers, All Other
Cost of Living
83.8
16% below US avg
Top-pay occupations in Eagle Pass, 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 Eagle Pass, TX
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Childcare Workers | $22,480 |
| Hotel, Motel, and Resort Desk Clerks | $23,500 |
| Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators | $23,700 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $24,570 |
| Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners | $26,220 |
| Food Preparation Workers | $27,390 |
| Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria | $27,710 |
| Retail Salespersons | $27,720 |
| Cashiers | $27,950 |
| Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary | $29,170 |
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 ($47,624 here) and summed published employment.
Similar mean wage
Nearest other metros by employment-weighted published-row annual mean wage.
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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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.