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
- 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
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. Medical and Health Services Managers 200 jobs · $103,420
- 2. Physical Therapists 140 jobs · $102,520
- 3. Speech-Language Pathologists 140 jobs · $95,950
- 4. Sales Managers 130 jobs · $125,380
- 5. Financial Managers 100 jobs · $135,710
- 6. Nurse Practitioners 100 jobs · $129,580
- 7. Occupational Therapists 100 jobs · $103,800
- 8. Physicians, All Other 80 jobs · $219,640
- 9. Pharmacists 80 jobs · $140,860
- 10. Industrial Production Managers 70 jobs · $128,600
- 11. Lawyers 70 jobs · $123,770
- 12. Managers, All Other 70 jobs · $121,600
- 13. Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Powerhouse, Substation, and Relay 60 jobs · $98,680
- 14. Computer and Information Systems Managers 50 jobs · $135,990
- 15. Administrative Services Managers 50 jobs · $100,720
- 16. Industrial Engineers 50 jobs · $93,560
- 17. Computer Occupations, All Other 50 jobs · $89,320
- 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
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
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Bartenders | $20,600 |
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $21,770 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $21,800 |
| Waiters and Waitresses | $22,330 |
| Childcare Workers | $23,280 |
| Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners | $23,390 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $24,510 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $24,520 |
| Tutors | $24,780 |
| Home Health and Personal Care Aides | $24,890 |
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.
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.