Northwest Arkansas Salaries (August 2026)
The median advertised salary in Northwest Arkansas is $117,500, based on 1317 live job postings with disclosed pay. Drag the range below to see who's hiring at every pay level.
$38,230 – $185,540
870 of 1000 postings in this band
A salary of $111,885 pays more than 65% of NWA postings with disclosed pay.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is the average salary in Northwest Arkansas?
Based on live job postings with disclosed pay collected by NWA Job Search, the median advertised salary across the Northwest Arkansas metro (Bentonville, Rogers, Fayetteville, Springdale, and surrounding cities) is shown above and updated daily. Corporate roles concentrated in Bentonville tend to advertise well above the metro median, while hourly retail, food-production, and service roles anchor the lower half of the distribution.
Where does this salary data come from?
Every number on this page comes from real, live job postings scraped daily from Northwest Arkansas employer career sites — Walmart, Tyson Foods, J.B. Hunt, city governments, hospitals, school districts, and dozens more. We annualize hourly rates (× 2,080 hours) and exclude implausible values. This is advertised pay from postings, not self-reported survey data.
Why don't all jobs show a salary?
Not every employer discloses pay in its postings. Roughly half of live NWA postings include a salary or wage range; the statistics here are computed only from postings that do. Disclosure varies a lot by employer — Walmart and city governments publish pay on nearly every posting, while many healthcare and transportation employers publish none.
Are these salaries what people actually earn?
They are advertised salary ranges from job postings, which is what an employer is offering to pay a new hire today. That makes them a strong signal of the current market, but they can differ from what existing employees earn and they exclude bonuses, benefits, and equity.
Methodology: salaries are annualized from live postings on NWA employer career sites (hourly × 2,080), outliers excluded. Statistics refresh daily.
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