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.
F
Wage Scorecard
34/100
Victoria, TX

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.

Wage Level F
$43,050
All-occupation median annual wage (BLS OEWS)
Wage Growth B+
+4.5%
Year-over-year change in median wage (BLS OEWS)
Real Purchasing Power F
$47,919
Median wage adjusted for regional price parity (RPP 89.8, BEA)

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
Read the chart as text
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.

What to do with this data

How to use Victoria, TX wage figures in a real decision

  • Physicians, All Other leads published medians in Victoria, TX at $219,640/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Physicians, All Other
  • The employment-weighted published-row mean of $52,850 adjusts to about $58,827 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 89.8. 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.

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