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Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers pay in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX and Midland, TX
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers is $61,530 per year in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX. It is $112,420 per year in Midland, TX. Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX is 45.3% below Midland, TX on the published median.
Both rows use SOC 23-2093 and the same annual wage metric. Median means the middle of each area's published wage spread. It is not one worker's pay. The larger median is not proof that one place gives a better job or a better result. It is one wage fact from one source period.
BLS lists 2,140 wage and salary jobs in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX and 140 in Midland, TX. Those are survey job counts, not open posts. Read pay, job scale, local share, and price level as separate facts before you make a choice.