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.
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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