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.
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.
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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How to use Laredo, TX wage figures in a real decision
- Physicians, All Other leads published medians in Laredo, TX at $265,860/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Physicians, All Other
- The employment-weighted published-row mean of $47,629 adjusts to about $54,774 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 87.0. Salary vs cost of living
- Compare this metropolitan statistical area against the statewide occupation table for TX 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.