Odessa, TX Salaries
Highest published occupation medians in Odessa, TX - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Odessa, TX moved from $47,420 in May 2024 to $48,590 in May 2025 (+2.5%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Odessa, TX sits -0.6 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.
Fast Food and Counter Workers shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Odessa, TX
Fast Food and Counter Workers publishes $28,390 here versus $31,200 nationally (-9.0%; 2,960metro-area jobs). Next is Roustabouts, Oil and Gas at $45,650 locally versus $46,960 nationally (-2.8%).
- Fast Food and Counter Workers$28,390 in Odessa, TX sits 9.0% below the national Fast Food and Counter Workers median of $31,200 (2,960 published local jobs).
- Roustabouts, Oil and Gas$45,650 in Odessa, TX sits 2.8% below the national Roustabouts, Oil and Gas median of $46,960 (2,060 published local jobs).
- General and Operations Managers$104,100 in Odessa, TX sits 1.6% below the national General and Operations Managers median of $105,770 (2,630 published local jobs).
- Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers$58,370 in Odessa, TX sits 0.5% below the national Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers median of $58,640 (3,190 published local jobs).
Fast Food and Counter Workers and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Odessa, TX; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 36220 · Odessa, TX $60K mean
MEAN-MID · RPP-LOW · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST
- MEAN-MID #205/528
- RPP-LOW 93.9
- OCC-MID 241 occs
- TOP-LEAD Chief Executives · $281K
- EMP-MIX Sales Managers
- TREND-INLINE -0.6 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH York-Hanover, PA
- BOOK-MOST 239 rows · May 2025
Read with York-Hanover, PA ($1 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 Odessa, TX
Employment scale inside Odessa, TX's top-pay list
Sales Managers and Financial Managers lead published employment inside Odessa, TX's top-pay sample, order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Sales Managers 340 jobs · $125,370
- 2. Financial Managers 280 jobs · $152,200
- 3. Managers, All Other 240 jobs · $134,830
- 4. Petroleum Engineers 220 jobs · $135,620
- 5. Industrial Production Managers 150 jobs · $125,070
- 6. Management Analysts 120 jobs · $122,080
- 7. Mechanical Engineers 120 jobs · $111,700
- 8. Lawyers 110 jobs · $133,340
- 9. Software Developers 110 jobs · $127,080
- 10. Computer and Information Systems Managers 100 jobs · $146,830
- 11. Pharmacists 100 jobs · $141,260
- 12. Marketing Managers 80 jobs · $133,420
- 13. Human Resources Managers 80 jobs · $132,250
- 14. Administrative Services Managers 80 jobs · $115,470
- 15. Architectural and Engineering Managers 70 jobs · $166,340
- 16. Nurse Practitioners 70 jobs · $126,690
- 17. Electrical Engineers 70 jobs · $111,750
- 18. Geoscientists, Except Hydrologists and Geographers 60 jobs · $129,730
Occupations Tracked
241
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$59,676
employment-weighted, 239 complete rows
Top Salary
$281,480
Chief Executives
Cost of Living
93.9
6% below US avg
Highest Paying Jobs in Odessa, TX
| # | Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chief Executives | $281,480 |
| 2 | Physicians, All Other | $200,310 |
| 3 | Architectural and Engineering Managers | $166,340 |
| 4 | Dentists, General | $153,860 |
| 5 | Financial Managers | $152,200 |
| 6 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $146,830 |
| 7 | Pharmacists | $141,260 |
| 8 | Petroleum Engineers | $135,620 |
| 9 | Managers, All Other | $134,830 |
| 10 | Sales Engineers | $134,740 |
| 11 | Marketing Managers | $133,420 |
| 12 | Lawyers | $133,340 |
| 13 | Human Resources Managers | $132,250 |
| 14 | Geoscientists, Except Hydrologists and Geographers | $129,730 |
| 15 | Physician Assistants | $129,380 |
| 16 | Software Developers | $127,080 |
| 17 | Nurse Practitioners | $126,690 |
| 18 | Sales Managers | $125,370 |
| 19 | Industrial Production Managers | $125,070 |
| 20 | Management Analysts | $122,080 |
| 21 | Administrative Services Managers | $115,470 |
| 22 | Electrical Engineers | $111,750 |
| 23 | Mechanical Engineers | $111,700 |
| 24 | Facilities Managers | $109,740 |
| 25 | Physical Therapists | $109,690 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in Odessa, TX
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $20,320 |
| Bartenders | $20,370 |
| Waiters and Waitresses | $22,600 |
| Cooks, Short Order | $24,350 |
| Physical Therapist Aides | $26,870 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $27,010 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $27,040 |
| Childcare Workers | $27,210 |
| Cooks, Fast Food | $27,520 |
| Home Health and Personal Care Aides | $27,670 |
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 ($59,676 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 Odessa, TX wage figures in a real decision
- Chief Executives leads published medians in Odessa, TX at $281,480/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Chief Executives
- The employment-weighted published-row mean of $59,676 adjusts to about $63,555 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 93.9. 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.