Puerto Rico nonmetropolitan area Salaries
BLS nonmetropolitan reporting area wages for Puerto Rico nonmetropolitan area (May 2025)
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 7200006 · Puerto Rico nonmetropolitan area $33K mean
MEAN-TRACE · RPP-UNK · OCC-THIN · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-UNK · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST
- MEAN-TRACE #527/528
- RPP-UNK RPP n/a
- OCC-THIN 131 occs
- TOP-LEAD Architectural… · $137K
- EMP-MIX Secondary Sc…
- TREND-UNK Pay chg n/a
- PHOTO-FINISH Mayaguez, PR
- BOOK-MOST 126 rows · May 2025
Read with Mayaguez, PR (+$314 on published-row mean) · Understanding BLS wage data
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 Puerto Rico nonmetropolitan…
Largest published OEWS rows in this nonmetropolitan area
Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education and Teachers and Instructors, All Other lead published employment inside Puerto Rico nonmetropolitan area's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education 320 jobs · $59,590
- 2. Teachers and Instructors, All Other 300 jobs · $61,330
- 3. Middle School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education 290 jobs · $59,190
- 4. Kindergarten Teachers, Except Special Education 280 jobs · $62,320
- 5. Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education 250 jobs · $60,340
- 6. Special Education Teachers, Secondary School 160 jobs · $58,970
- 7. Child, Family, and School Social Workers 130 jobs · $58,530
- 8. General and Operations Managers 120 jobs · $65,560
- 9. Special Education Teachers, Kindergarten and Elementary School 110 jobs · $58,980
- 10. Pharmacists 90 jobs · $110,750
- 11. Special Education Teachers, Middle School 90 jobs · $57,520
- 12. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 80 jobs · $83,000
- 13. Compliance Officers 80 jobs · $61,170
- 14. Industrial Production Managers 70 jobs · $128,650
- 15. Financial Managers 70 jobs · $73,200
- 16. Librarians and Media Collections Specialists 70 jobs · $60,760
- 17. Industrial Engineers 60 jobs · $77,410
- 18. Family Medicine Physicians 50 jobs · $99,910
Occupations Tracked
131
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$32,840
employment-weighted, 126 complete rows
Top Salary
$137,340
Architectural and Engineering Managers
Top-pay occupations in Puerto Rico nonmetropolitan area, by employment
Same top-pay sample as the salary ranking, sorted by published local jobs so the title sequence follows the OEWS mix.
Lowest Paying Jobs in Puerto Rico nonmetropolitan area
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Refuse and Recyclable Material Collectors | $21,840 |
| Packers and Packagers, Hand | $21,840 |
| Light Truck Drivers | $21,840 |
| Cabinetmakers and Bench Carpenters | $21,840 |
| Sewing Machine Operators | $21,840 |
| Food Batchmakers | $21,840 |
| Butchers and Meat Cutters | $21,840 |
| Bakers | $21,840 |
| Helpers--Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers | $21,840 |
| Maintenance and Repair Workers, General | $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 ($32,840 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 local-area 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.