Workers in the San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX Metropolitan Statistical Area had an average (mean) hourly wage of $29.39 in May 2025, compared to the nationwide average of $33.54, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Acting Regional Commissioner Jerome Watters noted that higher paying major occupational groups included management ($59.93), legal ($56.76), and computer and mathematical ($50.81). Lower paying occupations included food preparation and serving related ($15.02), healthcare support ($16.41), and building and grounds cleaning and maintenance ($16.86). (See table A.)

Occupational groups with the highest employment shares in the San Antonio area included office and administrative support (12.9 percent), food preparation and serving related (10.6 percent), and transportation and material moving (8.6 percent). Major occupational groups on the lower end of local employment included legal (0.7 percent); life, physical, and social science (0.7 percent); and arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media (0.9 percent).

One occupational group—office and administrative support—was chosen to illustrate the diversity of data available for any of the 22 major occupational categories. San Antonio had 144,930 jobs in office and administrative support, accounting for 12.9 percent of local area employment, compared to the 11.4-percent share nationally. The average hourly wage for this occupational group locally was $22.79, compared to the national wage of $24.79.

Some of the larger detailed occupations within the office and administrative support group included customer service representatives (34,730), general office clerks (15,890), and first-line supervisors of office and administrative support workers (12,300). Among the higher paying jobs in this group were executive secretaries and executive administrative assistants ($36.06) and first-line supervisors of office and administrative support workers ($33.09). At the lower end of the wage scale were hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks ($14.73) and switchboard operators, including answering service ($16.69). (Detailed data for the office and administrative support occupations are presented in table 1; for a complete listing of detailed occupations available go to data.bls.gov/oes/#/area/0041700/2025.)

Location quotients allow us to explore the occupational make-up of a metropolitan area by comparing the composition of jobs in an area relative to the national average. (See table 1.) For example, a location quotient of 2.00 indicates that an occupation accounts for twice the share of employment in the area than it does nationally. In the San Antonio area, above-average concentrations of employment were found in some of the occupations within the office and administrative support group. For instance, customer service representatives were employed at 1.85 times the national rate in San Antonio, and insurance claims and policy processing clerks, at 1.69 times the U.S. average. Production, planning, and expediting clerks had a location quotient of 1.00 in San Antonio, indicating that this particular occupation’s local and national employment shares were similar.

The statistics in this release are from the Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) survey, a cooperative effort between BLS and the State Workforce Agencies (SWAs). BLS funds the survey and provides the procedures and technical support. State Workforce Agencies collect most of the data: in this case, the Texas Workforce Commission.

Technical Note

The Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) survey is a semiannual survey measuring occupational employment and wage rates for wage and salary workers in nonfarm establishments in the United States. The OEWS data available from BLS include cross-industry occupational employment and wage estimates for the nation; over 530 areas, including states and the District of Columbia, metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs), nonmetropolitan areas, and territories; national industry-specific estimates at the NAICS sector, 3-digit, most 4-digit, and selected 5- and 6-digit industry levels; and national estimates by ownership across all industries and for schools and hospitals. Full OEWS data tables are available online.

Additional information about the OEWS estimates and methodology is available in the national Technical Notes. The overall national response rate for the six panels, based on the 50 states and the District of Columbia, is 66.2 percent based on establishments and 67.2 percent based on weighted sampled employment. Sample sizes and response rates by metropolitan and nonmetropolitan area are available on the Additional OEWS data sets page.

Metropolitan area definitions

The substate area data published in this release reflect the standards and definitions established by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget.

The San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX Metropolitan Statistical Area includes Atascosa County, Bandera County, Bexar County, Comal County, Guadalupe County, Kendall County, Medina County, and Wilson County.

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Table 1. Employment and wage data for office and administrative support occupations, San Antonio metropolitan area, May 2025

Occupation (1)	Employment		Mean wages ($)
	Level (2)	Location quotient (3)	Hourly	Annual (4)
Office and administrative support occupations	144,930	1.13	22.79	47,400
First-line supervisors of office and administrative support workers	12,300	1.18	33.09	68,830
Switchboard operators, including answering service	290	1.15	16.69	34,710
Bill and account collectors	1,450	1.26	22.75	47,320
Billing and posting clerks	2,830	0.97	22.02	45,800
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks	8,960	0.90	24.41	50,770
Payroll and timekeeping clerks	980	0.88	25.93	53,930
Procurement clerks	490	1.22	24.81	51,600
Tellers	1,850	0.77	19.99	41,590
Financial clerks, all other	420	1.59	26.26	54,610
Correspondence clerks	130	4.09	24.22	50,380
Court, municipal, and license clerks	1,070	0.82	21.89	45,530
Credit authorizers, checkers, and clerks	40	0.40	25.36	52,750
Customer service representatives	34,730	1.85	20.64	42,940
Eligibility interviewers, government programs	930	0.82	22.16	46,090
File clerks	840	1.58	20.64	42,940
Hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks	2,070	1.09	14.73	30,640
Interviewers, except eligibility and loan	1,380	1.28	21.30	44,310
Library assistants, clerical	220	0.36	17.07	35,510
Loan interviewers and clerks	1,570	1.32	26.60	55,320
New accounts clerks	140	0.53	21.89	45,530
Order clerks	320	0.59	20.70	43,060
Human resources assistants, except payroll and timekeeping	600	0.91	23.72	49,350
Receptionists and information clerks	7,950	1.21	18.14	37,740
Reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks	1,350	1.57	27.81	57,840
Information and record clerks, all other	1,290	1.32	23.60	49,080
Cargo and freight agents	340	0.48	24.27	50,480
Couriers and messengers	320	0.63	19.58	40,720
Public safety telecommunicators	600	0.80	24.42	50,790
Dispatchers, except police, fire, and ambulance	1,570	1.06	24.13	50,200
Meter readers, utilities	120	0.87	21.81	45,360
Postal service clerks	340	0.64	28.95	60,210
Postal service mail carriers	2,030	0.85	29.81	62,010
Postal service mail sorters, processors, and processing machine operators	660	0.87	29.17	60,660
Production, planning, and expediting clerks	2,840	1.00	27.23	56,650
Shipping, receiving, and inventory clerks	7,100	1.20	20.92	43,520
Weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers, recordkeeping	300	0.78	23.44	48,760
Executive secretaries and executive administrative assistants	1,910	0.57	36.06	75,000
Legal secretaries and administrative assistants	690	0.61	24.05	50,010
Medical secretaries and administrative assistants	7,350	1.05	20.91	43,480
Secretaries and administrative assistants, except legal, medical, and executive	12,260	0.99	21.37	44,450
Data entry keyers	1,090	1.18	19.12	39,770
Word processors and typists	70	0.26	23.27	48,400
Insurance claims and policy processing clerks	2,620	1.69	28.73	59,750
Mail clerks and mail machine operators, except postal service	350	0.88	19.32	40,180
Office clerks, general	15,890	0.89	19.99	41,590
Office machine operators, except computer	90	0.49	17.25	35,870
Office and administrative support workers, all other	2,050	1.47	22.65	47,110
(1) For a complete listing of all detailed occupations in the San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX Metropolitan Statistical Area, see https://data.bls.gov/oes/#/area/0041700/2025. (2) Estimates for detailed occupations may not sum to the totals due to rounding, and because the totals may include occupations that are not shown separately. Estimates do not include self-employed workers. (3) The location quotient is the ratio of the area concentration of occupational employment to the national average concentration. A location quotient greater than one indicates the occupation has a higher share of employment than average, and a location quotient less than one indicates the occupation is less prevalent in the area than average. (4) Annual wages have been calculated by multiplying the hourly mean wage by a 'year-round, full-time' hours figure of 2,080 hours; for those occupations where there is not an hourly mean wage published, the annual wage has been directly calculated from the reported survey data.