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title: "Average Salary in Austin, TX"
description: "Mean $74,580, median $56,950 in the Austin metro area (BLS OEWS May 2025), with prices and top jobs."
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last-updated: "2026-10-15T08:19:32.066Z"
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# Average salary in Austin, TX

Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX metropolitan statistical area. Mean annual wage $74,580, median $56,950 (US: $69,770 / $50,980), BLS OEWS May 2025, 1,293,690 jobs. Median at national-average prices: $58,070.

| Percentile | Annual wage |
| --- | --- |
| 10th | $29,860 |
| 25th | $38,230 |
| 50th | $56,950 |
| 75th | $90,560 |
| 90th | $137,820 |

| Price level (BEA RPP 2024, US = 100) | Index |
| --- | --- |
| All items | 98.1 |
| Housing (rents) | 120.4 |
| Goods | 93.8 |
| Utilities | 82.0 |
| Other services | 96.2 |

## Highest-paying jobs (mean annual wage)

- [Psychiatrist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/psychiatrist): $222,020
- [Dentist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/dentist): $210,830
- [Airline Pilot](https://nuecareer.com/careers/airline-pilot): $208,280
- [Architectural and Engineering Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/architectural-and-engineering-manager): $196,210
- [IT Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/it-manager): $192,460
- [Financial Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/financial-manager): $184,970
- [Lawyer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/lawyer): $184,640
- [Financial Advisor](https://nuecareer.com/careers/financial-advisor): $179,150
- [Health Specialties Teacher, Postsecondary](https://nuecareer.com/careers/health-specialties-teacher-postsecondary): $179,150
- [Computer Hardware Engineer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/computer-hardware-engineer): $174,450

Occupation pay is the OEWS May 2025 metro mean as published in the DOL OFLC 2026–27 wage file (metro-level estimates only).

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This bank includes information from the O\*NET 31.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). O\*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. NueCareer has transformed the data by joining it to BLS wage and projection data and deriving facet, personality-fit and AI-resilience scores. BLS and BEA data are public domain (17 U.S.C. §105).

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