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Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers pay in Hot Springs, AR and Midland, TX
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers is $41,680 per year in Hot Springs, AR. It is $112,420 per year in Midland, TX. Hot Springs, AR is 62.9% 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 30 wage and salary jobs in Hot Springs, AR 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.