Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR Salaries
Local wages where BEA prices sit below the US average (RPP 89.4) - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR moved from $44,730 in May 2024 to $45,790 in May 2025 (+2.4%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR sits -0.7 pp behind that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
Physicians, All Other shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR
Physicians, All Other publishes $74,500 here versus $265,930 nationally (-72.0%; 2,150metro-area jobs). Next is Managers, All Other at $90,610 locally versus $141,900 nationally (-36.1%).
- Physicians, All Other$74,500 in Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR sits 72.0% below the national Physicians, All Other median of $265,930 (2,150 published local jobs).
- Managers, All Other$90,610 in Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR sits 36.1% below the national Managers, All Other median of $141,900 (2,090 published local jobs).
- Waiters and Waitresses$24,610 in Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR sits 30.1% below the national Waiters and Waitresses median of $35,230 (5,120 published local jobs).
- Financial Managers$119,360 in Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR sits 28.3% below the national Financial Managers median of $166,570 (2,320 published local jobs).
Physicians, All Other and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 30780 · Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR $57K mean
MEAN-LOW · RPP-LOW · OCC-MOST · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-FULL
- MEAN-LOW #287/528
- RPP-LOW 89.4
- OCC-MOST 513 occs
- TOP-LEAD Nurse Anesthet… · $224K
- EMP-MIX Financial Ma…
- TREND-INLINE -0.7 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Evansville, IN
- BOOK-FULL 500 rows · May 2025
Read with Evansville, IN (+$40 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 Little Rock-North Little Ro…
Where Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR already employs the upper wage tier
Financial Managers and Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary lead published employment inside Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Financial Managers 2,320 jobs · $119,360
- 2. Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary 1,560 jobs · $214,790
- 3. Nurse Practitioners 1,360 jobs · $126,680
- 4. Computer and Information Systems Managers 1,290 jobs · $129,700
- 5. Pharmacists 1,020 jobs · $136,700
- 6. Industrial Production Managers 430 jobs · $124,550
- 7. Architectural and Engineering Managers 390 jobs · $148,930
- 8. Electrical Engineers 370 jobs · $108,700
- 9. Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers 350 jobs · $106,960
- 10. Physician Assistants 340 jobs · $109,110
- 11. Computer Network Architects 330 jobs · $124,820
- 12. Dentists, General 240 jobs · $172,250
- 13. Purchasing Managers 210 jobs · $129,700
- 14. Power Distributors and Dispatchers 140 jobs · $127,180
- 15. Veterinarians 120 jobs · $107,330
- 16. Database Architects 100 jobs · $121,490
- 17. Psychiatrists 90 jobs · $124,750
- 18. Computer Hardware Engineers 70 jobs · $124,510
Occupations Tracked
513
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$57,146
employment-weighted, 500 complete rows
Top Salary
$224,280
Nurse Anesthetists
Cost of Living
89.4
11% below US avg
Top-pay occupations in Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, 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 | Financial Managers | $119,360 |
| 2 | Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary | $214,790 |
| 3 | Nurse Practitioners | $126,680 |
| 4 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $129,700 |
| 5 | Pharmacists | $136,700 |
| 6 | Industrial Production Managers | $124,550 |
| 7 | Architectural and Engineering Managers | $148,930 |
| 8 | Electrical Engineers | $108,700 |
| 9 | Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers | $106,960 |
| 10 | Physician Assistants | $109,110 |
| 11 | Computer Network Architects | $124,820 |
| 12 | Dentists, General | $172,250 |
| 13 | Purchasing Managers | $129,700 |
| 14 | Power Distributors and Dispatchers | $127,180 |
| 15 | Veterinarians | $107,330 |
| 16 | Database Architects | $121,490 |
| 17 | Psychiatrists | $124,750 |
| 18 | Computer Hardware Engineers | $124,510 |
| 19 | Optometrists | $114,360 |
| 20 | Psychologists, All Other | $124,650 |
| 21 | Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers | $130,750 |
| 22 | Electronics Engineers, Except Computer | $110,830 |
| 23 | Nurse Anesthetists | $224,280 |
| 24 | Family Medicine Physicians | $205,910 |
| 25 | Chief Executives | $129,490 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Barbers | $24,460 |
| Bartenders | $24,540 |
| Waiters and Waitresses | $24,610 |
| Recreation Workers | $25,800 |
| Teaching Assistants, Postsecondary | $26,680 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $27,070 |
| Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service Workers | $27,130 |
| Sales and Related Workers, All Other | $27,210 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $27,420 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $27,470 |
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 ($57,146 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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