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title: "Average Salary in Tucson, AZ"
description: "Mean $63,200, median $47,760 in the Tucson 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 Tucson, AZ

Tucson, AZ metropolitan statistical area. Mean annual wage $63,200, median $47,760 (US: $69,770 / $50,980), BLS OEWS May 2025, 389,630 jobs. Median at national-average prices: $49,290.

| Percentile | Annual wage |
| --- | --- |
| 10th | $32,070 |
| 25th | $36,610 |
| 50th | $47,760 |
| 75th | $74,110 |
| 90th | $107,430 |

| Price level (BEA RPP 2024, US = 100) | Index |
| --- | --- |
| All items | 96.9 |
| Housing (rents) | 91.8 |
| Goods | 96.2 |
| Utilities | 89.5 |
| Other services | 99.8 |

## Highest-paying jobs (mean annual wage)

- [General Internal Medicine Physician](https://nuecareer.com/careers/general-internal-medicine-physician): $230,480
- [Airline Pilot](https://nuecareer.com/careers/airline-pilot): $218,380
- [Pediatrician, General](https://nuecareer.com/careers/pediatrician-general): $194,710
- [Veterinarian](https://nuecareer.com/careers/veterinarian): $193,400
- [Chief Executive](https://nuecareer.com/careers/chief-executive): $178,300
- [Dentist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/dentist): $176,200
- [Architectural and Engineering Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/architectural-and-engineering-manager): $166,030
- [Sales Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/sales-manager): $150,740
- [IT Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/it-manager): $150,130
- [Physicist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/physicist): $149,550

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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