Longview, TX Salaries
Local wages where BEA prices sit below the US average (RPP 89.5) - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Longview, TX moved from $42,710 in May 2024 to $45,150 in May 2025 (+5.7%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Longview, TX sits +2.6 pp ahead of that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
Home Health and Personal Care Aides shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Longview, TX
Home Health and Personal Care Aides publishes $23,610 here versus $35,800 nationally (-34.1%; 2,290metro-area jobs). Next is Retail Salespersons at $29,130 locally versus $35,410 nationally (-17.7%).
- Home Health and Personal Care Aides$23,610 in Longview, TX sits 34.1% below the national Home Health and Personal Care Aides median of $35,800 (2,290 published local jobs).
- Retail Salespersons$29,130 in Longview, TX sits 17.7% below the national Retail Salespersons median of $35,410 (3,110 published local jobs).
- Registered Nurses$80,330 in Longview, TX sits 17.7% below the national Registered Nurses median of $97,550 (2,480 published local jobs).
- Cashiers$27,740 in Longview, TX sits 15.6% below the national Cashiers median of $32,880 (2,530 published local jobs).
Home Health and Personal Care Aides and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Longview, TX; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 30980 · Longview, TX $55K mean
MEAN-LOW · RPP-LOW · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-AHEAD · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-FULL
- MEAN-LOW #363/528
- RPP-LOW 89.5
- OCC-MID 322 occs
- TOP-LEAD Physicians, Al… · $239K
- EMP-MIX Sales Managers
- TREND-AHEAD +2.6 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Columbus, GA-AL
- BOOK-FULL 317 rows · May 2025
Read with Columbus, GA-AL ($87 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 Longview, TX
Where Longview, TX already employs the upper wage tier
Sales Managers and Financial Managers lead published employment inside Longview, TX's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Sales Managers 450 jobs · $124,850
- 2. Financial Managers 370 jobs · $134,800
- 3. Managers, All Other 280 jobs · $121,130
- 4. Industrial Production Managers 270 jobs · $124,940
- 5. Nurse Practitioners 250 jobs · $129,210
- 6. Physicians, All Other 200 jobs · $239,170
- 7. Physical Therapists 190 jobs · $113,980
- 8. Computer Occupations, All Other 190 jobs · $110,310
- 9. Computer and Information Systems Managers 180 jobs · $143,620
- 10. Pharmacists 150 jobs · $137,280
- 11. Marketing Managers 150 jobs · $124,360
- 12. Occupational Therapists 130 jobs · $112,760
- 13. Human Resources Managers 120 jobs · $119,330
- 14. Architectural and Engineering Managers 110 jobs · $153,490
- 15. Electrical Engineers 110 jobs · $110,130
- 16. Chief Executives 80 jobs · $205,770
- 17. Dentists, General 80 jobs · $170,660
- 18. Physician Assistants 70 jobs · $128,180
Occupations Tracked
322
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$54,860
employment-weighted, 317 complete rows
Top Salary
$239,170
Physicians, All Other
Cost of Living
89.5
11% below US avg
Top-pay occupations in Longview, 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 | Sales Managers | $124,850 |
| 2 | Financial Managers | $134,800 |
| 3 | Managers, All Other | $121,130 |
| 4 | Industrial Production Managers | $124,940 |
| 5 | Nurse Practitioners | $129,210 |
| 6 | Physicians, All Other | $239,170 |
| 7 | Physical Therapists | $113,980 |
| 8 | Computer Occupations, All Other | $110,310 |
| 9 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $143,620 |
| 10 | Pharmacists | $137,280 |
| 11 | Marketing Managers | $124,360 |
| 12 | Occupational Therapists | $112,760 |
| 13 | Human Resources Managers | $119,330 |
| 14 | Architectural and Engineering Managers | $153,490 |
| 15 | Electrical Engineers | $110,130 |
| 16 | Chief Executives | $205,770 |
| 17 | Dentists, General | $170,660 |
| 18 | Physician Assistants | $128,180 |
| 19 | Purchasing Managers | $124,980 |
| 20 | Data Scientists | $107,270 |
| 21 | Nurse Anesthetists | $195,450 |
| 22 | Veterinarians | $124,730 |
| 23 | Education Administrators, All Other | $116,890 |
| 24 | Optometrists | $127,840 |
| 25 | Transportation Inspectors | $107,670 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in Longview, TX
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $20,760 |
| Bartenders | $21,140 |
| Waiters and Waitresses | $22,240 |
| Cooks, Short Order | $22,880 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $23,370 |
| Childcare Workers | $23,410 |
| Home Health and Personal Care Aides | $23,610 |
| Substitute Teachers, Short-Term | $24,820 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $25,010 |
| Food Preparation Workers | $26,150 |
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 ($54,860 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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