Hot Springs, AR Salaries

Local wages where BEA prices sit below the US average (RPP 85.7) - 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 Hot Springs, AR moved from $36,010 in May 2024 to $36,540 in May 2025 (+1.5%).
  • Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
  • Hot Springs, AR sits -1.6 pp behind that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.

BLS OEWS metro wage desk

MSA 26300 · Hot Springs, AR $47K mean

MEAN-TRACE · RPP-QUIET · OCC-THIN · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST

  • MEAN-TRACE #514/528
  • RPP-QUIET 85.7
  • OCC-THIN 182 occs
  • TOP-LEAD General Intern… · $292K
  • EMP-MIX Registered N…
  • TREND-INLINE -1.6 pp
  • PHOTO-FINISH Hattiesburg, MS
  • BOOK-MOST 182 rows · May 2025

Read with Hattiesburg, MS (+$69 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 Hot Springs, AR

Guayama, PR · lowest mean: $32KGuayama, PR · lowest mean$32KHot Springs, AR · this MSA: $47KHot Springs, AR · this MSA$47KHattiesburg, MS · near: $47KHattiesburg, MS · near$47KEast Arkansas nonmet… · near: $47KEast Arkansas nonmet… · near$47KNortheast Louisiana… · near: $47KNortheast Louisiana… · near$47KWest Arkansas nonmet… · near: $47KWest Arkansas nonmet… · near$47KSan Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · highest mean: $119KSan Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · high…$119K
Read the chart as text
Label Value
Guayama, PR · lowest mean $32K
Hot Springs, AR · this MSA $47K
Hattiesburg, MS · near $47K
East Arkansas nonmet… · near $47K
Northeast Louisiana… · near $47K
West Arkansas nonmet… · near $47K
San Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · highest mean $119K

Where Hot Springs, AR already employs the upper wage tier

Registered Nurses and Medical and Health Services Managers lead published employment inside Hot Springs, AR's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.

  1. 1. Registered Nurses 1,160 jobs · $78,590
  2. 2. Medical and Health Services Managers 220 jobs · $92,320
  3. 3. Nurse Practitioners 210 jobs · $122,940
  4. 4. Physicians, All Other 130 jobs · $181,120
  5. 5. Financial Managers 120 jobs · $95,010
  6. 6. Pharmacists 100 jobs · $135,200
  7. 7. Occupational Therapists 100 jobs · $82,410
  8. 8. Chief Executives 90 jobs · $119,990
  9. 9. Physical Therapists 90 jobs · $97,260
  10. 10. Lawyers 90 jobs · $92,700
  11. 11. Sales Managers 80 jobs · $107,240
  12. 12. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 80 jobs · $101,100
  13. 13. Loan Officers 70 jobs · $83,990
  14. 14. Dental Hygienists 70 jobs · $82,970
  15. 15. Dentists, General 60 jobs · $161,820
  16. 16. Software Developers 60 jobs · $117,610
  17. 17. Industrial Production Managers 60 jobs · $103,580
  18. 18. Speech-Language Pathologists 60 jobs · $79,060

Occupations Tracked

182

with wage data

Published-Row Mean

$47,156

employment-weighted, 182 complete rows

Top Salary

$292,120

General Internal Medicine Physicians

Cost of Living

85.7

14% below US avg

Price-level adjustment: Dividing the derived published-row mean of $47,156 by the metro RPP gives $55,005 on a national-price basis. This is not an after-tax income or a personal cost-of-living result.

Top-pay occupations in Hot Springs, AR, 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 Registered Nurses $78,590
2 Medical and Health Services Managers $92,320
3 Nurse Practitioners $122,940
4 Physicians, All Other $181,120
5 Financial Managers $95,010
6 Pharmacists $135,200
7 Occupational Therapists $82,410
8 Chief Executives $119,990
9 Physical Therapists $97,260
10 Lawyers $92,700
11 Sales Managers $107,240
12 Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary $101,100
13 Loan Officers $83,990
14 Dental Hygienists $82,970
15 Dentists, General $161,820
16 Software Developers $117,610
17 Industrial Production Managers $103,580
18 Speech-Language Pathologists $79,060
19 Computer and Information Systems Managers $102,950
20 Claims Adjusters, Examiners, and Investigators $81,330
21 General Internal Medicine Physicians $292,120
22 Marketing Managers $92,100
23 Physician Assistants $122,720
24 Network and Computer Systems Administrators $87,420
25 Aerospace Engineers $79,610

Lowest Paying Jobs in Hot Springs, AR

Other BLS Wage Areas in AR

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 AR. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($47,156 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 does the lower price level do to Hot Springs, AR wage reading?
The employment-weighted published-row mean across 182 occupation rows is $47,156/year (BLS OEWS May 2025). BEA RPP 85.7 puts local prices 14% below the US average, so the same mean reads as $55,005 in national-price terms. Page lists 182 occupations with a published median — a different denominator. The top-tier median average of the 25 highest-paying rows is $111,726.
What is the highest paying job in Hot Springs, AR?
The highest paying occupation in Hot Springs, AR is General Internal Medicine Physicians with a median salary of $292,120/year. The second highest is Physicians, All Other at $181,120/year.
What jobs pay the least in Hot Springs, AR?
The lowest paying occupation in Hot Springs, AR is Fast Food and Counter Workers with a median salary of $23,350/year according to BLS data.
Which federal tables feed Hot Springs, AR's wage and price figures?
Occupation wages are BLS OEWS May 2025 estimates for this metropolitan statistical area. The price-level figure is BEA Regional Price Parities for the matching metro area (latest published year on the page). WageDex divides the employment-weighted published-row mean by RPP only when both inputs exist; it does not substitute a national RPP.

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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