Hill Country Region of Texas nonmetropolitan area Salaries
BLS nonmetropolitan reporting area wages for Hill Country Region of Texas nonmetropolitan area (May 2025)
Waiters and Waitresses shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Hill Country Region of Texas nonmetropolitan area
Waiters and Waitresses publishes $23,900 here versus $35,230 nationally (-32.2%; 2,960metro-area jobs). Next is Home Health and Personal Care Aides at $26,610 locally versus $35,800 nationally (-25.7%).
- Waiters and Waitresses$23,900 in Hill Country Region of Texas nonmetropolitan area sits 32.2% below the national Waiters and Waitresses median of $35,230 (2,960 published local jobs).
- Home Health and Personal Care Aides$26,610 in Hill Country Region of Texas nonmetropolitan area sits 25.7% below the national Home Health and Personal Care Aides median of $35,800 (3,240 published local jobs).
- Fast Food and Counter Workers$23,490 in Hill Country Region of Texas nonmetropolitan area sits 24.7% below the national Fast Food and Counter Workers median of $31,200 (7,490 published local jobs).
- Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary$28,380 in Hill Country Region of Texas nonmetropolitan area sits 22.8% below the national Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary median of $36,780 (2,320 published local jobs).
Waiters and Waitresses and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Hill Country Region of Texas nonmetropolitan area; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 4800004 · Hill Country Region of Texas nonmetropolitan area $53K mean
MEAN-TRACE · RPP-UNK · OCC-MOST · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-UNK · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-FULL
- MEAN-TRACE #405/528
- RPP-UNK RPP n/a
- OCC-MOST 431 occs
- TOP-LEAD Physicians, Al… · $319K
- EMP-MIX Sales Managers
- TREND-UNK Pay chg n/a
- PHOTO-FINISH Abilene, TX
- BOOK-FULL 426 rows · May 2025
Read with Abilene, TX ($2 on published-row mean) · Understanding BLS wage data
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 Hill Country Region of Texa…
Largest published OEWS rows in this nonmetropolitan area
Sales Managers and Financial Managers lead published employment inside Hill Country Region of Texas nonmetropolitan area's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Sales Managers 590 jobs · $112,620
- 2. Financial Managers 470 jobs · $131,310
- 3. Software Developers 400 jobs · $121,780
- 4. Industrial Production Managers 380 jobs · $116,650
- 5. Lawyers 370 jobs · $107,500
- 6. Managers, All Other 360 jobs · $123,340
- 7. Nurse Practitioners 310 jobs · $129,500
- 8. Pharmacists 300 jobs · $130,820
- 9. Physical Therapists 250 jobs · $116,500
- 10. Computer and Information Systems Managers 240 jobs · $149,910
- 11. Administrative Services Managers 240 jobs · $112,930
- 12. Chief Executives 180 jobs · $150,080
- 13. Occupational Therapists 180 jobs · $105,730
- 14. Veterinarians 150 jobs · $122,760
- 15. Human Resources Managers 140 jobs · $116,040
- 16. Physicians, All Other 130 jobs · $319,370
- 17. Dentists, General 130 jobs · $152,820
- 18. Physician Assistants 120 jobs · $133,810
Occupations Tracked
431
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$53,285
employment-weighted, 426 complete rows
Top Salary
$319,370
Physicians, All Other
Top-pay occupations in Hill Country Region of Texas nonmetropolitan area, 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 | Sales Managers | $112,620 |
| 2 | Financial Managers | $131,310 |
| 3 | Software Developers | $121,780 |
| 4 | Industrial Production Managers | $116,650 |
| 5 | Lawyers | $107,500 |
| 6 | Managers, All Other | $123,340 |
| 7 | Nurse Practitioners | $129,500 |
| 8 | Pharmacists | $130,820 |
| 9 | Physical Therapists | $116,500 |
| 10 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $149,910 |
| 11 | Administrative Services Managers | $112,930 |
| 12 | Chief Executives | $150,080 |
| 13 | Occupational Therapists | $105,730 |
| 14 | Veterinarians | $122,760 |
| 15 | Human Resources Managers | $116,040 |
| 16 | Physicians, All Other | $319,370 |
| 17 | Dentists, General | $152,820 |
| 18 | Physician Assistants | $133,810 |
| 19 | Family Medicine Physicians | $280,350 |
| 20 | Judges, Magistrate Judges, and Magistrates | $116,750 |
| 21 | Architectural and Engineering Managers | $154,110 |
| 22 | Training and Development Managers | $121,330 |
| 23 | Computer Network Architects | $113,560 |
| 24 | Information Security Analysts | $105,470 |
| 25 | Optometrists | $125,950 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in Hill Country Region of Texas nonmetropolitan area
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Bartenders | $22,350 |
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $22,530 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $23,490 |
| School Bus Monitors | $23,540 |
| Cooks, Short Order | $23,600 |
| Childcare Workers | $23,680 |
| Waiters and Waitresses | $23,900 |
| Substitute Teachers, Short-Term | $24,520 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $24,750 |
| Food Servers, Nonrestaurant | $24,960 |
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 ($53,285 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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