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Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers pay in Midland, TX and Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers is $112,420 per year in Midland, TX. It is $52,000 per year in Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC. Midland, TX is 116.2% above Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC 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 140 wage and salary jobs in Midland, TX and 220 in Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC. 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.