Victoria, TX Salaries

Local wages where BEA prices sit below the US average (RPP 89.8) - BLS OEWS May 2025

Observed metro pay change

What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025

May 2024 → May 2025
  • BLS's published All Occupations median in Victoria, TX moved from $41,190 in May 2024 to $43,050 in May 2025 (+4.5%).
  • Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
  • Victoria, TX sits +1.4 pp ahead of that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.

BLS OEWS metro wage desk

MSA 47020 · Victoria, TX $53K mean

MEAN-TRACE · RPP-LOW · OCC-THIN · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST

  • MEAN-TRACE #425/528
  • RPP-LOW 89.8
  • OCC-THIN 191 occs
  • TOP-LEAD Physicians, Al… · $220K
  • EMP-MIX Medical and…
  • TREND-INLINE +1.4 pp
  • PHOTO-FINISH Brunswick-St. Si…
  • BOOK-MOST 191 rows · May 2025

Read with Brunswick-St. Simons, GA (+$10 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 Victoria, TX

Guayama, PR · lowest mean: $32KGuayama, PR · lowest mean$32KVictoria, TX · this MSA: $53KVictoria, TX · this MSA$53KBrunswick-St. Simons… · near: $53KBrunswick-St. Simons… · near$53KBowling Green, KY · near: $53KBowling Green, KY · near$53KJackson, TN · near: $53KJackson, TN · near$53KLubbock, TX · near: $53KLubbock, TX · near$53KSan Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · highest mean: $119KSan Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · high…$119K
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Label Value
Guayama, PR · lowest mean $32K
Victoria, TX · this MSA $53K
Brunswick-St. Simons… · near $53K
Bowling Green, KY · near $53K
Jackson, TN · near $53K
Lubbock, TX · near $53K
San Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · highest mean $119K

Where Victoria, TX already employs the upper wage tier

Medical and Health Services Managers and Physical Therapists lead published employment inside Victoria, TX's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.

  1. 1. Medical and Health Services Managers 200 jobs · $103,420
  2. 2. Physical Therapists 140 jobs · $102,520
  3. 3. Speech-Language Pathologists 140 jobs · $95,950
  4. 4. Sales Managers 130 jobs · $125,380
  5. 5. Financial Managers 100 jobs · $135,710
  6. 6. Nurse Practitioners 100 jobs · $129,580
  7. 7. Occupational Therapists 100 jobs · $103,800
  8. 8. Physicians, All Other 80 jobs · $219,640
  9. 9. Pharmacists 80 jobs · $140,860
  10. 10. Industrial Production Managers 70 jobs · $128,600
  11. 11. Lawyers 70 jobs · $123,770
  12. 12. Managers, All Other 70 jobs · $121,600
  13. 13. Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Powerhouse, Substation, and Relay 60 jobs · $98,680
  14. 14. Computer and Information Systems Managers 50 jobs · $135,990
  15. 15. Administrative Services Managers 50 jobs · $100,720
  16. 16. Industrial Engineers 50 jobs · $93,560
  17. 17. Computer Occupations, All Other 50 jobs · $89,320
  18. 18. Occupational Health and Safety Specialists 50 jobs · $88,110

Occupations Tracked

191

with wage data

Published-Row Mean

$52,850

employment-weighted, 191 complete rows

Top Salary

$219,640

Physicians, All Other

Cost of Living

89.8

10% below US avg

Price-level adjustment: Dividing the derived published-row mean of $52,850 by the metro RPP gives $58,827 on a national-price basis. This is not an after-tax income or a personal cost-of-living result.

Top-pay occupations in Victoria, TX, 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 $103,420
2 Physical Therapists $102,520
3 Speech-Language Pathologists $95,950
4 Sales Managers $125,380
5 Financial Managers $135,710
6 Nurse Practitioners $129,580
7 Occupational Therapists $103,800
8 Physicians, All Other $219,640
9 Pharmacists $140,860
10 Industrial Production Managers $128,600
11 Lawyers $123,770
12 Managers, All Other $121,600
13 Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Powerhouse, Substation, and Relay $98,680
14 Computer and Information Systems Managers $135,990
15 Administrative Services Managers $100,720
16 Industrial Engineers $93,560
17 Computer Occupations, All Other $89,320
18 Occupational Health and Safety Specialists $88,110
19 Facilities Managers $108,270
20 Electrical Engineers $105,190
21 Marketing Managers $99,440
22 Computer Systems Analysts $97,170
23 Dental Hygienists $85,680
24 Dentists, General $129,430
25 Financial and Investment Analysts $85,740

Lowest Paying Jobs in Victoria, TX

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 ($52,850 here) and summed published employment.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does the lower price level do to Victoria, TX wage reading?
The employment-weighted published-row mean across 191 occupation rows is $52,850/year (BLS OEWS May 2025). BEA RPP 89.8 puts local prices 10% below the US average, so the same mean reads as $58,827 in national-price terms. Page lists 191 occupations with a published median — a different denominator. The top-tier median average of the 25 highest-paying rows is $113,925.
What is the highest paying job in Victoria, TX?
The highest paying occupation in Victoria, TX is Physicians, All Other with a median salary of $219,640/year. The second highest is Pharmacists at $140,860/year.
What jobs pay the least in Victoria, TX?
The lowest paying occupation in Victoria, TX is Bartenders with a median salary of $20,600/year according to BLS data.
Which federal tables feed Victoria, TX's wage and price figures?
Occupation wages are BLS OEWS May 2025 estimates for this metropolitan statistical area. The price-level figure is BEA Regional Price Parities for the matching metro area (latest published year on the page). WageDex divides the employment-weighted published-row mean by RPP only when both inputs exist; it does not substitute a national RPP.

Last updated: May 2025 (BLS OEWS annual release). Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS May 2025. Cost-of-living index: BEA Regional Price Parities, 2024.

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.

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