Mayaguez, PR Salaries
Highest published occupation medians in Mayaguez, PR - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Mayaguez, PR moved from $22,610 in May 2024 to $25,270 in May 2025 (+11.8%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Mayaguez, PR sits +8.7 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.
Registered Nurses shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Mayaguez, PR
Registered Nurses publishes $39,280 here versus $97,550 nationally (-59.7%; 2,070metro-area jobs). Next is Sewing Machine Operators at $21,840 locally versus $36,670 nationally (-40.4%).
- Registered Nurses$39,280 in Mayaguez, PR sits 59.7% below the national Registered Nurses median of $97,550 (2,070 published local jobs).
- Sewing Machine Operators$21,840 in Mayaguez, PR sits 40.4% below the national Sewing Machine Operators median of $36,670 (2,370 published local jobs).
- Retail Salespersons$22,090 in Mayaguez, PR sits 37.6% below the national Retail Salespersons median of $35,410 (2,610 published local jobs).
Registered Nurses and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Mayaguez, PR; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 32420 · Mayaguez, PR $33K mean
MEAN-TRACE · RPP-UNK · OCC-THIN · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-AHEAD · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST
- MEAN-TRACE #526/528
- RPP-UNK RPP n/a
- OCC-THIN 196 occs
- TOP-LEAD Physicians, Al… · $230K
- EMP-MIX Teachers and…
- TREND-AHEAD +8.7 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Arecibo, PR
- BOOK-MOST 194 rows · May 2025
Read with Arecibo, PR (+$290 on published-row mean) · Highest-paying careers
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 Mayaguez, PR
Employment scale inside Mayaguez, PR's top-pay list
Teachers and Instructors, All Other and Kindergarten Teachers, Except Special Education lead published employment inside Mayaguez, PR's top-pay sample, order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Teachers and Instructors, All Other 340 jobs · $61,830
- 2. Kindergarten Teachers, Except Special Education 300 jobs · $60,860
- 3. Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers 190 jobs · $61,440
- 4. Family Medicine Physicians 160 jobs · $131,870
- 5. Administrative Services Managers 160 jobs · $63,730
- 6. Pharmacists 140 jobs · $111,950
- 7. Financial Managers 120 jobs · $75,380
- 8. Managers, All Other 110 jobs · $60,200
- 9. Education Administrators, Postsecondary 90 jobs · $103,610
- 10. Chief Executives 90 jobs · $90,220
- 11. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 70 jobs · $81,630
- 12. Management Analysts 70 jobs · $59,540
- 13. Medical and Health Services Managers 60 jobs · $73,850
- 14. Sales Managers 60 jobs · $71,750
- 15. Industrial Engineers 60 jobs · $63,280
- 16. School Psychologists 50 jobs · $97,210
- 17. Nursing Instructors and Teachers, Postsecondary 50 jobs · $78,580
- 18. Engineers, All Other 50 jobs · $73,780
Occupations Tracked
196
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$33,154
employment-weighted, 194 complete rows
Top Salary
$229,760
Physicians, All Other
Highest Paying Jobs in Mayaguez, PR
Lowest Paying Jobs in Mayaguez, PR
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Refuse and Recyclable Material Collectors | $21,840 |
| Packers and Packagers, Hand | $21,840 |
| Cleaners of Vehicles and Equipment | $21,840 |
| Shuttle Drivers and Chauffeurs | $21,840 |
| Sewing Machine Operators | $21,840 |
| Food Batchmakers | $21,840 |
| Helpers--Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers | $21,840 |
| Highway Maintenance Workers | $21,840 |
| Legal Secretaries and Administrative Assistants | $21,840 |
| Interviewers, Except Eligibility and Loan | $21,840 |
Other BLS Wage Areas in PR
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 PR. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($33,154 here) and summed published employment.
Similar mean wage
Nearest other metros by employment-weighted published-row annual mean wage.
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 Mayaguez, PR wage figures in a real decision
- Physicians, All Other leads published medians in Mayaguez, PR at $229,760/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Physicians, All Other
- Mayaguez, PR's employment-weighted published-row mean is $33,154 across 194 occupation rows with employment estimates. Understanding BLS data
- Compare this metropolitan statistical area against the statewide occupation table for PR 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.