The annual salary statistics of cartographers and photogrammetrists in Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, Texas is shown in Table 1. The wage information of cartographers and photogrammetrists in Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown is based on the national compensation survey conducted by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics in 2022 and published in April 2023 [1].
| Percentile Bracket | Average Annual Salary |
|---|---|
| 10th Percentile Wage | $54,330 |
| 25th Percentile Wage | $61,220 |
| 50th Percentile Wage | $78,160 |
| 75th Percentile Wage | $96,890 |
| 90th Percentile Wage | $118,370 |
Table 1 shows the average annual salary for cartographers and photogrammetrists in Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, Texas in 5 percentile scales. The average annual salary for the 90th percentile (the top 10 percent of the highest paid) is $118,370. The median (50th percentile) annual salary is $78,160. The average annual salary for the bottom 10 percent earners is $54,330.
The table and chart below show the trend of the median salary of cartographers and photogrammetrists from 2012 to 2022.
| Year | Median Salary | Yearly Growth | 10-Year Growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | $78,160 | 1.11% | 12.40% |
| 2021 | $77,290 | 15.86% | - |
| 2020 | $65,030 | 6.92% | - |
| 2019 | $60,530 | -4.05% | - |
| 2018 | $62,980 | -1.64% | - |
| 2017 | $64,010 | -7.55% | - |
| 2016 | $68,840 | -1.03% | - |
| 2015 | $69,550 | 3.74% | - |
| 2014 | $66,950 | 11.07% | - |
| 2013 | $59,540 | -15.00% | - |
| 2012 | $68,470 | - | - |
From Table 3 we note that with a median annual salary of $78,160, Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown is the second highest paying city for cartographers and photogrammetrists in state of Texas, following the highest paying city Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington (median annual salary of $79,300). Compared with Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, the median annual salary of cartographers and photogrammetrists in Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown is 1.4 percent (1.4%) lower.
| Cities/Areas | Median Annual Salary |
|---|---|
| Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington | |
| Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown | |
| Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos | |
| Fort Worth-Arlington | |
| Killeen-Temple-Fort Hood | |
| Midland | |
| Beaumont-Port Arthur | |
| Corpus Christi | |
| San Antonio-New Braunfels | |
| Amarillo | |
| Dallas-Plano-Irving | |
| Eastern Texas nonmetropolitan area | |
| Lubbock | |
| North Central Texas nonmetropolitan area | |
| El Paso |