Texarkana, TX-AR Salaries
Local wages where BEA prices sit below the US average (RPP 84.0) - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Texarkana, TX-AR moved from $41,050 in May 2024 to $43,200 in May 2025 (+5.2%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Texarkana, TX-AR sits +2.1 pp ahead of that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
Fast Food and Counter Workers shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Texarkana, TX-AR
Fast Food and Counter Workers publishes $22,880 here versus $31,200 nationally (-26.7%; 2,170metro-area jobs).
- Fast Food and Counter Workers$22,880 in Texarkana, TX-AR sits 26.7% below the national Fast Food and Counter Workers median of $31,200 (2,170 published local jobs).
Fast Food and Counter Workers and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Texarkana, TX-AR; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 45500 · Texarkana, TX-AR $51K mean
MEAN-TRACE · RPP-QUIET · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-AHEAD · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST
- MEAN-TRACE #459/528
- RPP-QUIET 84.0
- OCC-MID 228 occs
- TOP-LEAD Physicians, Al… · $517K
- EMP-MIX Medical and…
- TREND-AHEAD +2.1 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Auburn-Opelika, AL
- BOOK-MOST 226 rows · May 2025
Read with Auburn-Opelika, AL (+$26 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 Texarkana, TX-AR
Where Texarkana, TX-AR already employs the upper wage tier
Medical and Health Services Managers and Financial Managers lead published employment inside Texarkana, TX-AR's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Medical and Health Services Managers 300 jobs · $97,100
- 2. Financial Managers 170 jobs · $121,770
- 3. Sales Managers 170 jobs · $102,780
- 4. Nurse Practitioners 150 jobs · $127,920
- 5. Physical Therapists 140 jobs · $105,580
- 6. Managers, All Other 130 jobs · $98,280
- 7. Pharmacists 120 jobs · $132,530
- 8. Lawyers 120 jobs · $118,410
- 9. Speech-Language Pathologists 110 jobs · $99,990
- 10. Industrial Production Managers 100 jobs · $118,450
- 11. Physicians, All Other 90 jobs · $516,930
- 12. Software Developers 80 jobs · $116,490
- 13. Chief Executives 70 jobs · $161,180
- 14. Computer and Information Systems Managers 70 jobs · $128,650
- 15. Mechanical Engineers 70 jobs · $106,330
- 16. Occupational Therapists 70 jobs · $106,060
- 17. Education Administrators, Postsecondary 70 jobs · $95,790
- 18. Personal Financial Advisors 50 jobs · $120,420
Occupations Tracked
228
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$51,198
employment-weighted, 226 complete rows
Top Salary
$516,930
Physicians, All Other
Cost of Living
84.0
16% below US avg
Top-pay occupations in Texarkana, TX-AR, 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 | Medical and Health Services Managers | $97,100 |
| 2 | Financial Managers | $121,770 |
| 3 | Sales Managers | $102,780 |
| 4 | Nurse Practitioners | $127,920 |
| 5 | Physical Therapists | $105,580 |
| 6 | Managers, All Other | $98,280 |
| 7 | Pharmacists | $132,530 |
| 8 | Lawyers | $118,410 |
| 9 | Speech-Language Pathologists | $99,990 |
| 10 | Industrial Production Managers | $118,450 |
| 11 | Physicians, All Other | $516,930 |
| 12 | Software Developers | $116,490 |
| 13 | Chief Executives | $161,180 |
| 14 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $128,650 |
| 15 | Mechanical Engineers | $106,330 |
| 16 | Occupational Therapists | $106,060 |
| 17 | Education Administrators, Postsecondary | $95,790 |
| 18 | Personal Financial Advisors | $120,420 |
| 19 | Marketing Managers | $99,790 |
| 20 | Administrative Services Managers | $99,460 |
| 21 | Facilities Managers | $98,140 |
| 22 | Nurse Anesthetists | $199,320 |
| 23 | Physician Assistants | $124,870 |
| 24 | Human Resources Managers | $106,610 |
| 25 | Electrical Engineers | $103,380 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in Texarkana, TX-AR
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $20,640 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $22,880 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $22,880 |
| Bartenders | $22,880 |
| Bus Drivers, School | $23,100 |
| Waiters and Waitresses | $23,330 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $23,570 |
| Cooks, Fast Food | $24,500 |
| Home Health and Personal Care Aides | $24,630 |
| Childcare Workers | $24,680 |
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 ($51,198 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.