2026 Edition · An annual reference on what work pays

Construction Managers

Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metropolitan area. Estimated employment 17,110.

Data released May 2025 BLS OEWS · SOC 11-9021
Fig. 1 — The wage rule

Where you sit in the distribution

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$103,550 · 50th
$66,58010th
$81,00025th
$103,55050th
$133,03075th
$166,77090th

That is the medianhalf of construction managers in Dallas earn more.

Table 1 — Adjusted

$103,550 in Dallas buys what $100,400 buys across the country as a whole.

Dallas's regional price parity is 103.1 — above the national average, so the nominal figure overstates what it buys. Adjusted figures for other metros are in the nearby-metros table below.

Fig. 2 — The ladder

What comes next

Median offered base pay by seniority for Construction Managers in Dallas, classified from job titles on visa filings.

Entry
$80,000
Mid
$94,008
Senior
$126,630
Table 2 — Nearby metros

The same job, elsewhere in Texas

Adjusted figures apply each metro's regional price parity, so the columns are directly comparable.

Metro areaMedianAdjustedRPPvs. Dallas
Midland$118,630$123,90095.8+23.3%
Odessa$106,800$113,70093.9+13.2%
Dallas This page$103,550$100,400103.1
Houston$103,530$105,00098.6+4.5%
Austin$102,980$105,00098.1+4.5%
Beaumont$100,340$111,40090.0+10.9%
Corpus Christi$98,520$106,30092.7+5.8%
San Antonio$98,450$103,90094.7+3.5%

Price parity and difference against Dallas are in the full table on wider screens.

Fig. 3 — Five-year trend

Nominal against real

The same median, once as published and once restated in 2025 dollars.

90k100k110k120k 20212022202320242025
Nominal, as published Real, in 2025 dollars US$ thousands

Published pay rose 5.1% over the five years to 2025. Adjusted for inflation it fell 11.5% — prices rose faster than pay since 2021. The two lines meet at the right edge by construction, since 2025 is the base year.

Sources

How this page was made

Wage data
Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 release. Public domain.
Price parity
Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Price Parities, 2024.
Career ladder
Seniority classified from job titles on the same visa filings; levels shown only with five or more filings each and a strictly rising progression.
Inflation
Real figures deflate by CPI-U annual averages (BLS, all items, US city average).
Employment
17,110 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
Occupation
SOC 11-9021, Construction Managers. Mapped to our taxonomy as construction-managers.

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