Wichita Falls, TX Salaries
Local wages where BEA prices sit below the US average (RPP 89.5) - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Wichita Falls, TX moved from $40,410 in May 2024 to $43,210 in May 2025 (+6.9%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Wichita Falls, TX sits +3.8 pp ahead of that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
Fast Food and Counter Workers shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Wichita Falls, TX
Fast Food and Counter Workers publishes $25,540 here versus $31,200 nationally (-18.1%; 2,240metro-area jobs).
- Fast Food and Counter Workers$25,540 in Wichita Falls, TX sits 18.1% below the national Fast Food and Counter Workers median of $31,200 (2,240 published local jobs).
Fast Food and Counter Workers and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Wichita Falls, TX; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 48660 · Wichita Falls, TX $52K mean
MEAN-TRACE · RPP-LOW · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-AHEAD · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST
- MEAN-TRACE #446/528
- RPP-LOW 89.5
- OCC-MID 236 occs
- TOP-LEAD Physicians, Al… · $292K
- EMP-MIX Medical and…
- TREND-AHEAD +3.8 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Parkersburg-Vien…
- BOOK-MOST 234 rows · May 2025
Read with Parkersburg-Vienna, WV (+$93 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 Wichita Falls, TX
Where Wichita Falls, TX already employs the upper wage tier
Medical and Health Services Managers and Nurse Practitioners lead published employment inside Wichita Falls, TX's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Medical and Health Services Managers 280 jobs · $105,640
- 2. Nurse Practitioners 190 jobs · $130,310
- 3. Financial Managers 150 jobs · $127,490
- 4. Sales Managers 130 jobs · $100,970
- 5. Pharmacists 110 jobs · $139,400
- 6. Managers, All Other 100 jobs · $120,440
- 7. Speech-Language Pathologists 90 jobs · $99,590
- 8. Industrial Engineers 90 jobs · $93,830
- 9. Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers 80 jobs · $112,260
- 10. Lawyers 80 jobs · $106,780
- 11. Industrial Production Managers 80 jobs · $105,640
- 12. Physicians, All Other 70 jobs · $292,330
- 13. Software Developers 70 jobs · $108,260
- 14. Occupational Therapists 70 jobs · $101,720
- 15. Computer and Information Systems Managers 60 jobs · $124,540
- 16. Marketing Managers 60 jobs · $108,620
- 17. Administrative Services Managers 60 jobs · $102,640
- 18. Mechanical Engineers 60 jobs · $95,710
Occupations Tracked
236
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$51,867
employment-weighted, 234 complete rows
Top Salary
$292,330
Physicians, All Other
Cost of Living
89.5
10% below US avg
Top-pay occupations in Wichita Falls, 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 | $105,640 |
| 2 | Nurse Practitioners | $130,310 |
| 3 | Financial Managers | $127,490 |
| 4 | Sales Managers | $100,970 |
| 5 | Pharmacists | $139,400 |
| 6 | Managers, All Other | $120,440 |
| 7 | Speech-Language Pathologists | $99,590 |
| 8 | Industrial Engineers | $93,830 |
| 9 | Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers | $112,260 |
| 10 | Lawyers | $106,780 |
| 11 | Industrial Production Managers | $105,640 |
| 12 | Physicians, All Other | $292,330 |
| 13 | Software Developers | $108,260 |
| 14 | Occupational Therapists | $101,720 |
| 15 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $124,540 |
| 16 | Marketing Managers | $108,620 |
| 17 | Administrative Services Managers | $102,640 |
| 18 | Mechanical Engineers | $95,710 |
| 19 | Management Analysts | $95,570 |
| 20 | Architectural and Engineering Managers | $139,420 |
| 21 | Physician Assistants | $128,780 |
| 22 | Human Resources Managers | $105,680 |
| 23 | Dentists, General | $148,800 |
| 24 | Electrical Engineers | $107,400 |
| 25 | Chief Executives | $163,170 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in Wichita Falls, TX
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $20,890 |
| Bartenders | $21,460 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $22,190 |
| Cooks, Short Order | $22,430 |
| Home Health and Personal Care Aides | $22,950 |
| Waiters and Waitresses | $22,980 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $23,510 |
| Childcare Workers | $24,120 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $25,540 |
| Hotel, Motel, and Resort Desk Clerks | $27,060 |
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 ($51,867 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.