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title: "Average Salary in Dallas, TX"
description: "Mean $70,630, median $51,440 in the Dallas 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 Dallas, TX

Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metropolitan statistical area. Mean annual wage $70,630, median $51,440 (US: $69,770 / $50,980), BLS OEWS May 2025, 4,049,800 jobs. Median at national-average prices: $49,900.

| Percentile | Annual wage |
| --- | --- |
| 10th | $28,850 |
| 25th | $36,800 |
| 50th | $51,440 |
| 75th | $81,840 |
| 90th | $132,080 |

| Price level (BEA RPP 2024, US = 100) | Index |
| --- | --- |
| All items | 103.1 |
| Housing (rents) | 117.9 |
| Goods | 102.8 |
| Utilities | 90.7 |
| Other services | 99.7 |

## Highest-paying jobs (mean annual wage)

- [Allergist and Immunologist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/allergist-and-immunologist): $229,380
- [Psychiatrist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/psychiatrist): $223,100
- [Podiatrist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/podiatrist): $220,210
- [Dentist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/dentist): $202,010
- [Lawyer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/lawyer): $188,640
- [Financial Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/financial-manager): $187,300
- [IT Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/it-manager): $185,720
- [Architectural and Engineering Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/architectural-and-engineering-manager): $182,520
- [Physicist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/physicist): $182,230
- [Petroleum Engineer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/petroleum-engineer): $178,530

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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