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.
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.
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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How to use Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR wage figures in a real decision
- Nurse Anesthetists leads published medians in Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR at $224,280/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Nurse Anesthetists
- The employment-weighted published-row mean of $57,146 adjusts to about $63,947 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 89.4. Salary vs cost of living
- Compare this metropolitan statistical area against the statewide occupation table for AR 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.