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Marketing Managers salary in Brownsville, TX

Median pay for marketing managers in Brownsville, TX: $104,870/yr

Typical range (10th–90th percentile): $52,090 – $239,200 · about 150 employed locally

Below the typical metro median ($127,800) by −$22,930 (-18%).

What it's really worth in Brownsville

With Brownsville's cost of living at 86 (US=100), that $104,870 has the buying power of about $122,370 in an average-cost US metro.

Local context: median household income $47,435 · median home $207,150 · median rent $1,460/mo.

Full Brownsville cost of living & taxes →

How Brownsville ranks for this job

On raw pay, Brownsville, TX is 155th of the 183 metros we hold marketing managers wages for. Once Brownsville's cost of living is applied, it ranks 128th.

Pay here goes further than the headline number suggests — Brownsville is one of the places where marketing managers gain ground in real terms, because local costs are low relative to what the job pays.

What that salary buys in Brownsville

A median home in Brownsville, TX costs $207,150 — about this salary, against a typical US metro figure of 4.7×. Buying is more attainable here than in the average metro on this income.

Median rent of $1,460/mo works out at 17% of gross pay — inside the conventional 30% affordability ceiling.

Where marketing managers earn more

Pay on its own is only half the picture, so each row shows what rent costs there relative to Brownsville.

MetroMedian payvs BrownsvilleRent vs Brownsville
San Jose, CA $217,300 +107% 2.5×
San Francisco, CA $209,170 +99% 2.2×
Trenton, NJ $202,000 +93% 1.8×
New York, NY $176,530 +68% 2.4×

Same job elsewhere in TX

MetroMedian payvs BrownsvilleRent vs Brownsville
Austin, TX $154,010 +47% 1.1×
Houston, TX $136,970 +31% 1.1×
Dallas, TX $136,000 +30% 1.1×
Longview, TX $126,990 +21% 0.8×

Staying in TX keeps state income tax and licensing the same, which makes these the most directly comparable moves.

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Source: US BLS OEWS (May 2023) median annual wage; cost of living from BEA; home price and rent from Zillow; household income from US Census ACS. Rankings are across the 183 metros we hold wage data for in this occupation. Estimates for guidance only. See methodology.