Guayama, PR Salaries
Largest OEWS employment footprints with published wages - BLS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Guayama, PR moved from $23,120 in May 2024 to $25,260 in May 2025 (+9.3%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Guayama, PR sits +6.2 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.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 25020 · Guayama, PR $32K mean
MEAN-TRACE · RPP-UNK · OCC-THIN · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-AHEAD · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-THIN
- MEAN-TRACE #528/528
- RPP-UNK RPP n/a
- OCC-THIN 70 occs
- TOP-LEAD Pharmacists · $118K
- EMP-MIX Registered N…
- TREND-AHEAD +6.2 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Puerto Rico nonm…
- BOOK-THIN 70 rows · May 2025
Read with Puerto Rico nonmetropolitan area (+$998 on published-row mean) · Fastest-growing occupations
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 Guayama, PR
Largest published OEWS footprints in Guayama, PR
Registered Nurses and First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers lead published employment inside Guayama, PR's top-pay sample, order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Registered Nurses 350 jobs · $38,800
- 2. First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers 160 jobs · $38,270
- 3. Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education 150 jobs · $59,290
- 4. Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education 140 jobs · $53,550
- 5. Pharmacy Technicians 120 jobs · $35,700
- 6. Insurance Sales Agents 100 jobs · $37,370
- 7. Teachers and Instructors, All Other 90 jobs · $61,670
- 8. Preschool Teachers, Except Special Education 80 jobs · $35,600
- 9. Child, Family, and School Social Workers 60 jobs · $53,100
- 10. General and Operations Managers 50 jobs · $71,460
- 11. Kindergarten Teachers, Except Special Education 50 jobs · $63,230
- 12. Career/Technical Education Teachers, Secondary School 50 jobs · $58,720
- 13. Middle School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education 50 jobs · $54,420
- 14. Clinical Laboratory Technologists and Technicians 50 jobs · $43,350
- 15. Industrial Machinery Mechanics 50 jobs · $36,860
- 16. Business Operations Specialists, All Other 50 jobs · $36,630
- 17. Accountants and Auditors 50 jobs · $36,030
- 18. Pharmacists 40 jobs · $117,950
Occupations Tracked
70
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$31,842
employment-weighted, 70 complete rows
Top Salary
$117,950
Pharmacists
Top-pay occupations in Guayama, PR, 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 Guayama, PR
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Refuse and Recyclable Material Collectors | $21,840 |
| Bakers | $21,840 |
| Waiters and Waitresses | $21,840 |
| Home Health and Personal Care Aides | $21,840 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $21,920 |
| Interviewers, Except Eligibility and Loan | $21,980 |
| Cashiers | $22,070 |
| Cooks, Short Order | $22,140 |
| Retail Salespersons | $22,190 |
| Cooks, Fast Food | $22,260 |
Other BLS Wage Areas in PR
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 PR. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($31,842 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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How to use Guayama, PR wage figures in a real decision
- Pharmacists leads published medians in Guayama, PR at $117,950/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Pharmacists
- Guayama, PR's employment-weighted published-row mean is $31,842 across 70 occupation rows with employment estimates. Understanding BLS data
- Compare this metropolitan statistical area against the statewide occupation table for PR 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.