El Paso, TX Salaries
Local wages where BEA prices sit below the US average (RPP 89.9) - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in El Paso, TX moved from $37,880 in May 2024 to $39,510 in May 2025 (+4.3%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- El Paso, TX sits +1.2 pp ahead of that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
Waiters and Waitresses shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in El Paso, TX
Waiters and Waitresses publishes $21,870 here versus $35,230 nationally (-37.9%; 5,810metro-area jobs). Next is Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel at $45,200 locally versus $69,990 nationally (-35.4%).
- Waiters and Waitresses$21,870 in El Paso, TX sits 37.9% below the national Waiters and Waitresses median of $35,230 (5,810 published local jobs).
- Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel$45,200 in El Paso, TX sits 35.4% below the national Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel median of $69,990 (3,830 published local jobs).
- Home Health and Personal Care Aides$23,200 in El Paso, TX sits 35.2% below the national Home Health and Personal Care Aides median of $35,800 (14,310 published local jobs).
- First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$30,520 in El Paso, TX sits 30.8% below the national First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers median of $44,080 (3,940 published local jobs).
Waiters and Waitresses and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for El Paso, TX; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 21340 · El Paso, TX $52K mean
MEAN-TRACE · RPP-LOW · OCC-MOST · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-FULL
- MEAN-TRACE #454/528
- RPP-LOW 89.9
- OCC-MOST 476 occs
- TOP-LEAD Physicians, Al… · $290K
- EMP-MIX Software Dev…
- TREND-INLINE +1.2 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Western North Ca…
- BOOK-FULL 471 rows · May 2025
Read with Western North Carolina nonmetropolitan area (+$34 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 El Paso, TX
Where El Paso, TX already employs the upper wage tier
Software Developers and Managers, All Other lead published employment inside El Paso, TX's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Software Developers 1,360 jobs · $127,310
- 2. Managers, All Other 1,340 jobs · $122,930
- 3. Financial Managers 920 jobs · $131,580
- 4. Lawyers 780 jobs · $140,550
- 5. Computer and Information Systems Managers 770 jobs · $152,840
- 6. Nurse Practitioners 670 jobs · $127,110
- 7. Pharmacists 590 jobs · $124,910
- 8. Physicians, All Other 560 jobs · $289,950
- 9. Marketing Managers 490 jobs · $114,160
- 10. Human Resources Managers 380 jobs · $122,780
- 11. Industrial Production Managers 340 jobs · $116,580
- 12. Pediatricians, General 240 jobs · $176,710
- 13. Dentists, General 160 jobs · $150,940
- 14. Architectural and Engineering Managers 160 jobs · $144,360
- 15. First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives 160 jobs · $115,820
- 16. Chief Executives 110 jobs · $220,050
- 17. Optometrists 70 jobs · $132,240
- 18. Veterinarians 70 jobs · $123,250
Occupations Tracked
476
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$51,501
employment-weighted, 471 complete rows
Top Salary
$289,950
Physicians, All Other
Cost of Living
89.9
10% below US avg
Top-pay occupations in El Paso, TX, by employment
Same top-pay sample as the salary ranking, sorted by published local jobs so the title sequence follows the OEWS mix.
| # | Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Software Developers | $127,310 |
| 2 | Managers, All Other | $122,930 |
| 3 | Financial Managers | $131,580 |
| 4 | Lawyers | $140,550 |
| 5 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $152,840 |
| 6 | Nurse Practitioners | $127,110 |
| 7 | Pharmacists | $124,910 |
| 8 | Physicians, All Other | $289,950 |
| 9 | Marketing Managers | $114,160 |
| 10 | Human Resources Managers | $122,780 |
| 11 | Industrial Production Managers | $116,580 |
| 12 | Pediatricians, General | $176,710 |
| 13 | Dentists, General | $150,940 |
| 14 | Architectural and Engineering Managers | $144,360 |
| 15 | First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives | $115,820 |
| 16 | Chief Executives | $220,050 |
| 17 | Optometrists | $132,240 |
| 18 | Veterinarians | $123,250 |
| 19 | Compensation and Benefits Managers | $120,830 |
| 20 | Database Architects | $126,700 |
| 21 | General Internal Medicine Physicians | $240,990 |
| 22 | Petroleum Engineers | $131,740 |
| 23 | Health and Safety Engineers, Except Mining Safety Engineers and Inspectors | $112,240 |
| 24 | Economics Teachers, Postsecondary | $130,210 |
| 25 | Family Medicine Physicians | $213,550 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in El Paso, TX
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $19,620 |
| Bartenders | $19,680 |
| Cooks, Short Order | $21,610 |
| Ushers, Lobby Attendants, and Ticket Takers | $21,730 |
| Waiters and Waitresses | $21,870 |
| Sewing Machine Operators | $22,400 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $22,800 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $23,030 |
| Shoe Machine Operators and Tenders | $23,070 |
| Home Health and Personal Care Aides | $23,200 |
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 ($51,501 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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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.