Waco, TX Salaries
Highest published occupation medians in Waco, TX - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Waco, TX moved from $44,530 in May 2024 to $46,020 in May 2025 (+3.3%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Waco, TX sits +0.2 pp near that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
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.
Home Health and Personal Care Aides shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Waco, TX
Home Health and Personal Care Aides publishes $23,910 here versus $35,800 nationally (-33.2%; 2,200metro-area jobs). Next is Retail Salespersons at $29,810 locally versus $35,410 nationally (-15.8%).
- Home Health and Personal Care Aides$23,910 in Waco, TX sits 33.2% below the national Home Health and Personal Care Aides median of $35,800 (2,200 published local jobs).
- Retail Salespersons$29,810 in Waco, TX sits 15.8% below the national Retail Salespersons median of $35,410 (3,140 published local jobs).
- Customer Service Representatives$38,810 in Waco, TX sits 13.3% below the national Customer Service Representatives median of $44,770 (3,260 published local jobs).
- Cashiers$28,610 in Waco, TX sits 13.0% below the national Cashiers median of $32,880 (2,570 published local jobs).
Home Health and Personal Care Aides and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Waco, TX; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 47380 · Waco, TX $56K mean
MEAN-LOW · RPP-LOW · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-FULL
- MEAN-LOW #316/528
- RPP-LOW 92.5
- OCC-MID 340 occs
- TOP-LEAD Physicians, Al… · $313K
- EMP-MIX Financial Ma…
- TREND-INLINE +0.2 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Lewiston, ID-WA
- BOOK-FULL 337 rows · May 2025
Read with Lewiston, ID-WA (+$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 Waco, TX
Employment scale inside Waco, TX's top-pay list
Financial Managers and Software Developers lead published employment inside Waco, TX's top-pay sample, order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Financial Managers 490 jobs · $134,010
- 2. Software Developers 490 jobs · $123,080
- 3. Sales Managers 490 jobs · $117,820
- 4. Computer and Information Systems Managers 310 jobs · $141,810
- 5. Lawyers 280 jobs · $130,230
- 6. Marketing Managers 270 jobs · $126,880
- 7. Industrial Production Managers 240 jobs · $123,200
- 8. Physicians, All Other 220 jobs · $312,520
- 9. Nurse Practitioners 210 jobs · $128,920
- 10. Pharmacists 180 jobs · $150,710
- 11. Human Resources Managers 160 jobs · $125,290
- 12. Electrical Engineers 140 jobs · $108,940
- 13. Architectural and Engineering Managers 100 jobs · $159,620
- 14. Dentists, General 100 jobs · $145,630
- 15. Chief Executives 90 jobs · $217,610
- 16. Physician Assistants 90 jobs · $131,000
- 17. Purchasing Managers 90 jobs · $122,250
- 18. Family Medicine Physicians 60 jobs · $235,710
Occupations Tracked
340
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$56,365
employment-weighted, 337 complete rows
Top Salary
$312,520
Physicians, All Other
Cost of Living
92.5
7% below US avg
Highest Paying Jobs in Waco, TX
| # | Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Physicians, All Other | $312,520 |
| 2 | Family Medicine Physicians | $235,710 |
| 3 | Chief Executives | $217,610 |
| 4 | Nursing Instructors and Teachers, Postsecondary | $206,810 |
| 5 | Architectural and Engineering Managers | $159,620 |
| 6 | Pharmacists | $150,710 |
| 7 | Dentists, General | $145,630 |
| 8 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $141,810 |
| 9 | Financial Managers | $134,010 |
| 10 | Physician Assistants | $131,000 |
| 11 | Lawyers | $130,230 |
| 12 | Nurse Practitioners | $128,920 |
| 13 | Marketing Managers | $126,880 |
| 14 | Human Resources Managers | $125,290 |
| 15 | Industrial Production Managers | $123,200 |
| 16 | Software Developers | $123,080 |
| 17 | Veterinarians | $122,920 |
| 18 | Purchasing Managers | $122,250 |
| 19 | Sales Managers | $117,820 |
| 20 | Education Administrators, All Other | $117,810 |
| 21 | Electronics Engineers, Except Computer | $117,700 |
| 22 | Administrative Law Judges, Adjudicators, and Hearing Officers | $115,920 |
| 23 | Electrical Engineers | $108,940 |
| 24 | Computer Network Architects | $107,750 |
| 25 | Social Workers, All Other | $105,830 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in Waco, TX
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Bartenders | $21,420 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $22,560 |
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $22,570 |
| Waiters and Waitresses | $23,010 |
| Home Health and Personal Care Aides | $23,910 |
| Substitute Teachers, Short-Term | $26,690 |
| Childcare Workers | $26,760 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $27,070 |
| Cooks, Fast Food | $27,470 |
| Cooks, All Other | $27,710 |
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 ($56,365 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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How to use Waco, TX wage figures in a real decision
- Physicians, All Other leads published medians in Waco, TX at $312,520/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Physicians, All Other
- The employment-weighted published-row mean of $56,365 adjusts to about $60,902 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 92.5. 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.