Laredo, TX Salaries
Local wages where BEA prices sit below the US average (RPP 87.0) - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Laredo, TX moved from $36,640 in May 2024 to $37,250 in May 2025 (+1.7%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Laredo, TX sits -1.4 pp behind that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
Home Health and Personal Care Aides shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Laredo, TX
Home Health and Personal Care Aides publishes $23,510 here versus $35,800 nationally (-34.3%; 8,140metro-area jobs). Next is Office Clerks, General at $30,640 locally versus $45,010 nationally (-31.9%).
- Home Health and Personal Care Aides$23,510 in Laredo, TX sits 34.3% below the national Home Health and Personal Care Aides median of $35,800 (8,140 published local jobs).
- Office Clerks, General$30,640 in Laredo, TX sits 31.9% below the national Office Clerks, General median of $45,010 (2,450 published local jobs).
- Fast Food and Counter Workers$23,030 in Laredo, TX sits 26.2% below the national Fast Food and Counter Workers median of $31,200 (4,620 published local jobs).
- General and Operations Managers$78,640 in Laredo, TX sits 25.6% below the national General and Operations Managers median of $105,770 (2,780 published local jobs).
Home Health and Personal Care Aides and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Laredo, TX; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 29700 · Laredo, TX $48K mean
MEAN-TRACE · RPP-QUIET · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST
- MEAN-TRACE #506/528
- RPP-QUIET 87.0
- OCC-MID 255 occs
- TOP-LEAD Physicians, Al… · $266K
- EMP-MIX Compliance O…
- TREND-INLINE -1.4 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Eagle Pass, TX
- BOOK-MOST 255 rows · May 2025
Read with Eagle Pass, 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 Laredo, TX
Where Laredo, TX already employs the upper wage tier
Compliance Officers and Detectives and Criminal Investigators lead published employment inside Laredo, TX's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Compliance Officers 1,440 jobs · $98,180
- 2. Detectives and Criminal Investigators 1,410 jobs · $98,180
- 3. Managers, All Other 570 jobs · $127,690
- 4. Medical and Health Services Managers 340 jobs · $95,460
- 5. Sales Managers 290 jobs · $92,400
- 6. Lawyers 240 jobs · $125,900
- 7. Financial Managers 190 jobs · $121,140
- 8. Pharmacists 160 jobs · $125,060
- 9. Physical Therapists 160 jobs · $99,000
- 10. Nurse Practitioners 130 jobs · $121,360
- 11. Software Developers 130 jobs · $111,450
- 12. Speech-Language Pathologists 130 jobs · $96,340
- 13. Administrative Services Managers 110 jobs · $114,000
- 14. Computer and Information Systems Managers 100 jobs · $127,870
- 15. Marketing Managers 100 jobs · $112,680
- 16. First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives 90 jobs · $111,870
- 17. Physician Assistants 80 jobs · $124,120
- 18. Physicians, All Other 70 jobs · $265,860
Occupations Tracked
255
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$47,629
employment-weighted, 255 complete rows
Top Salary
$265,860
Physicians, All Other
Cost of Living
87.0
13% below US avg
Top-pay occupations in Laredo, 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 | Compliance Officers | $98,180 |
| 2 | Detectives and Criminal Investigators | $98,180 |
| 3 | Managers, All Other | $127,690 |
| 4 | Medical and Health Services Managers | $95,460 |
| 5 | Sales Managers | $92,400 |
| 6 | Lawyers | $125,900 |
| 7 | Financial Managers | $121,140 |
| 8 | Pharmacists | $125,060 |
| 9 | Physical Therapists | $99,000 |
| 10 | Nurse Practitioners | $121,360 |
| 11 | Software Developers | $111,450 |
| 12 | Speech-Language Pathologists | $96,340 |
| 13 | Administrative Services Managers | $114,000 |
| 14 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $127,870 |
| 15 | Marketing Managers | $112,680 |
| 16 | First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives | $111,870 |
| 17 | Physician Assistants | $124,120 |
| 18 | Physicians, All Other | $265,860 |
| 19 | Human Resources Managers | $103,990 |
| 20 | Occupational Therapists | $96,760 |
| 21 | Dentists, General | $149,820 |
| 22 | Industrial Production Managers | $101,280 |
| 23 | Family Medicine Physicians | $227,450 |
| 24 | Architectural and Engineering Managers | $155,340 |
| 25 | Engineering Teachers, Postsecondary | $100,340 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in Laredo, TX
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $20,910 |
| Bartenders | $21,380 |
| Cooks, Short Order | $21,490 |
| Waiters and Waitresses | $22,020 |
| Childcare Workers | $22,350 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $22,530 |
| Physical Therapist Aides | $22,790 |
| Tutors | $23,000 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $23,030 |
| Educational Instruction and Library Workers, All Other | $23,040 |
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 ($47,629 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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