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.
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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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.