Food Preparation Workers
San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX metropolitan area. Estimated employment 7,910.
Where you sit in the distribution
That is the median — half of food preparation workers in San Antonio earn more.
$34,390 in San Antonio buys what $36,300 buys across the country as a whole.
San Antonio's regional price parity is 94.7 — below the national average, so a dollar here goes further than the nominal figure suggests. Adjusted figures for other metros are in the nearby-metros table below.
The same job, elsewhere in Texas
Adjusted figures apply each metro's regional price parity, so the columns are directly comparable.
| Metro area | Median | Adjusted | RPP | vs. San Antonio |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wichita Falls | $35,700 | $39,900 | 89.5 | +9.8% |
| Houston | $35,020 | $35,500 | 98.6 | −2.2% |
| Austin | $34,880 | $35,600 | 98.1 | −2.0% |
| San Antonio This page | $34,390 | $36,300 | 94.7 | — |
| College Station | $34,380 | $37,800 | 91.0 | +4.1% |
| Midland | $33,200 | $34,700 | 95.8 | −4.5% |
| Dallas | $30,740 | $29,800 | 103.1 | −17.9% |
| Odessa | $30,550 | $32,500 | 93.9 | −10.4% |
Price parity and difference against San Antonio are in the full table on wider screens.
Nominal against real
The same median, once as published and once restated in 2025 dollars.
Published pay rose 18.5% over the five years to 2025. Adjusted for inflation it is roughly flat — food preparation workers in San Antonio earn about what they earned in 2021. The two lines meet at the right edge by construction, since 2025 is the base year.
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.
- Inflation
- Real figures deflate by CPI-U annual averages (BLS, all items, US city average).
- Employment
- 7,910 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
- Occupation
- SOC 35-2021, Food Preparation Workers. Mapped to our taxonomy as food-preparation-workers.
Percentiles are reported exactly as released and are never interpolated between published values. We take no payment from employers, recruiters or anyone else for how any figure is presented.