Tucson, AZ Salaries
Highest published occupation medians in Tucson, AZ - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Tucson, AZ moved from $46,450 in May 2024 to $47,760 in May 2025 (+2.8%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Tucson, AZ sits -0.3 pp near that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Tucson, AZ
Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education publishes $50,940 here versus $72,040 nationally (-29.3%; 3,320metro-area jobs). Next is Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education at $47,220 locally versus $63,970 nationally (-26.2%).
- Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education$50,940 in Tucson, AZ sits 29.3% below the national Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education median of $72,040 (3,320 published local jobs).
- Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education$47,220 in Tucson, AZ sits 26.2% below the national Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education median of $63,970 (3,530 published local jobs).
- General and Operations Managers$83,610 in Tucson, AZ sits 21.0% below the national General and Operations Managers median of $105,770 (12,130 published local jobs).
- Human Resources Specialists$63,950 in Tucson, AZ sits 15.8% below the national Human Resources Specialists median of $75,940 (2,130 published local jobs).
Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Tucson, AZ; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 46060 · Tucson, AZ $62K mean
MEAN-MID · RPP-MID · OCC-MOST · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-FULL
- MEAN-MID #149/528
- RPP-MID 96.9
- OCC-MOST 490 occs
- TOP-LEAD Physicians, Al… · $357K
- EMP-MIX Computer and…
- TREND-INLINE -0.3 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Atlantic City-Ha…
- BOOK-FULL 476 rows · May 2025
Read with Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ (+$18 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 Tucson, AZ
Employment scale inside Tucson, AZ's top-pay list
Computer and Information Systems Managers and Sales Managers lead published employment inside Tucson, AZ's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Computer and Information Systems Managers 1,500 jobs · $151,520
- 2. Sales Managers 1,100 jobs · $138,880
- 3. Architectural and Engineering Managers 1,070 jobs · $159,610
- 4. Pharmacists 1,010 jobs · $147,420
- 5. Physicians, All Other 900 jobs · $357,070
- 6. Nurse Practitioners 820 jobs · $129,340
- 7. Marketing Managers 370 jobs · $129,570
- 8. Dentists, General 330 jobs · $182,200
- 9. General Internal Medicine Physicians 320 jobs · $264,320
- 10. Family Medicine Physicians 290 jobs · $227,940
- 11. Physician Assistants 290 jobs · $129,880
- 12. Veterinarians 250 jobs · $131,540
- 13. Computer Hardware Engineers 180 jobs · $129,340
- 14. Dermatologists 80 jobs · $231,030
- 15. Pediatricians, General 80 jobs · $183,400
- 16. Optometrists 80 jobs · $157,650
- 17. Psychiatrists 70 jobs · $257,650
- 18. Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers 60 jobs · $206,050
Occupations Tracked
490
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$62,306
employment-weighted, 476 complete rows
Top Salary
$357,070
Physicians, All Other
Cost of Living
96.9
3% below US avg
Highest Paying Jobs in Tucson, AZ
| # | Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Physicians, All Other | $357,070 |
| 2 | Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons | $299,990 |
| 3 | General Internal Medicine Physicians | $264,320 |
| 4 | Psychiatrists | $257,650 |
| 5 | Dentists, All Other Specialists | $254,650 |
| 6 | Dermatologists | $231,030 |
| 7 | Family Medicine Physicians | $227,940 |
| 8 | Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers | $206,050 |
| 9 | Chief Executives | $185,100 |
| 10 | Pediatricians, General | $183,400 |
| 11 | Dentists, General | $182,200 |
| 12 | Physicists | $171,190 |
| 13 | Architectural and Engineering Managers | $159,610 |
| 14 | Optometrists | $157,650 |
| 15 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $151,520 |
| 16 | Pharmacists | $147,420 |
| 17 | Sales Managers | $138,880 |
| 18 | Compensation and Benefits Managers | $138,560 |
| 19 | Purchasing Managers | $136,610 |
| 20 | Psychologists, All Other | $134,430 |
| 21 | Veterinarians | $131,540 |
| 22 | Physician Assistants | $129,880 |
| 23 | Marketing Managers | $129,570 |
| 24 | Computer Hardware Engineers | $129,340 |
| 25 | Nurse Practitioners | $129,340 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in Tucson, AZ
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Ushers, Lobby Attendants, and Ticket Takers | $30,580 |
| Driver/Sales Workers | $30,730 |
| Cooks, Fast Food | $30,830 |
| Manicurists and Pedicurists | $30,870 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $31,410 |
| Animal Trainers | $31,410 |
| Parking Attendants | $31,530 |
| Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals | $31,670 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $31,690 |
| Locker Room, Coatroom, and Dressing Room Attendants | $31,790 |
Other BLS Wage Areas in AZ
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 AZ. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($62,306 here) and summed published employment.
Similar mean wage
Nearest other metros by employment-weighted published-row annual mean wage.
Similar employment scale
Nearest headcount peers (floor 100,000 summed published jobs), distinct from the mean-wage column.
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.