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title: "Average Salary in Houston, TX"
description: "Mean $67,610, median $49,410 in the Houston 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 Houston, TX

Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX metropolitan statistical area. Mean annual wage $67,610, median $49,410 (US: $69,770 / $50,980), BLS OEWS May 2025, 3,289,720 jobs. Median at national-average prices: $50,100.

| Percentile | Annual wage |
| --- | --- |
| 10th | $27,380 |
| 25th | $35,640 |
| 50th | $49,410 |
| 75th | $79,260 |
| 90th | $128,040 |

| Price level (BEA RPP 2024, US = 100) | Index |
| --- | --- |
| All items | 98.6 |
| Housing (rents) | 104.5 |
| Goods | 100.6 |
| Utilities | 95.3 |
| Other services | 95.6 |

## Highest-paying jobs (mean annual wage)

- [Psychiatrist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/psychiatrist): $229,090
- [Physicist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/physicist): $196,520
- [Architectural and Engineering Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/architectural-and-engineering-manager): $195,640
- [Lawyer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/lawyer): $193,400
- [Financial Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/financial-manager): $186,560
- [Health Specialties Teacher, Postsecondary](https://nuecareer.com/careers/health-specialties-teacher-postsecondary): $186,400
- [Podiatrist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/podiatrist): $184,790
- [IT Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/it-manager): $182,210
- [Emergency Medicine Physician](https://nuecareer.com/careers/emergency-medicine-physician): $181,000
- [Geoscientist, Except Hydrologists and Geographers](https://nuecareer.com/careers/geoscientist): $179,730

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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