Northwest Arkansas Salaries (October 2026)
The median advertised pay in Northwest Arkansas is $20.50/hr for hourly roles (476 postings) and $135,000 a year for salaried roles (877 postings). Walmart posts 58% of the salaried postings with pay; without Walmart, the salaried median is $129,750. Drag the range below to see who's hiring at every pay level.
$39,520 – $181,145
1085 of 1353 postings in this band
A salary of $110,333 pays more than 54% of NWA postings with pay listed, counting hourly pay at 2,080 hours a year.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is the average salary in Northwest Arkansas?
The median advertised pay across Northwest Arkansas is $20.50/hr for hourly roles (476 postings) and $135,000 a year for salaried roles (877 postings). Walmart posts 58% of the salaried postings with pay; without Walmart, the salaried median is $129,750. Corporate roles concentrated in Bentonville advertise well above the hourly figures, which are anchored by retail, food-production, and service roles.
Where does this salary data come from?
Every number on this page comes from live job postings collected daily from Northwest Arkansas employer career sites — Walmart, Tyson Foods, J.B. Hunt, city governments, hospitals, school districts, and dozens more. These figures are computed from live job postings collected daily from employer career sites, not survey responses. Each posting counts at the midpoint of its advertised range. Hourly and salaried roles are reported separately, because one combined figure is dominated by whichever group is larger; postings that don't list pay are left out.
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: medians use the midpoint of each advertised range from live postings on NWA employer career sites, with hourly and salaried roles reported separately and outliers excluded. The explorer above counts hourly pay at 2,080 hours a year. Statistics refresh daily.
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