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Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks

Midland, TX metropolitan area. Estimated employment 280.

Data released May 2025 BLS OEWS · SOC 43-5061
Fig. 1 — The wage rule

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$58,450 · 50th
$39,12010th
$47,01025th
$58,45050th
$78,19075th
$99,49090th

That is the medianhalf of people in this occupation in Midland earn more.

Table 1 — Adjusted

$58,450 in Midland buys what $61,000 buys across the country as a whole.

Midland's regional price parity is 95.8 — 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.

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. Midland
Corpus Christi$66,540$71,80092.7+17.7%
Texarkana$61,480$73,20084.0+19.9%
Odessa$59,420$63,30093.9+3.7%
Midland This page$58,450$61,00095.8
Houston$57,600$58,40098.6−4.3%
Dallas$56,360$54,700103.1−10.4%
San Antonio$56,040$59,20094.7−3.0%
Longview$53,640$59,90089.5−1.8%

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

Fig. 2 — Five-year trend

Nominal against real

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

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Nominal, as published Real, in 2025 dollars US$ thousands

Published pay fell 2.6% over the five years to 2025. Adjusted for inflation it fell 18.0% — 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.
Inflation
Real figures deflate by CPI-U annual averages (BLS, all items, US city average).
Employment
280 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
Occupation
SOC 43-5061, Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks. Mapped to our taxonomy as production-planning-and-expediting-clerks.

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