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.
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 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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How to use Longview, TX wage figures in a real decision
- Physicians, All Other leads published medians in Longview, TX at $239,170/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Physicians, All Other
- The employment-weighted published-row mean of $54,860 adjusts to about $61,306 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 89.5. 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.