Compared with the local labor market
License and Permit Specialist III pay vs. Texas
Across all employers in Texas, the median wage for Court, Municipal, and License Clerks — about 15,730 people — is $46,580. Texas Department of Motor Vehicles pays a median base salary of $50,480 for this role, 8% above that figure — about the 76th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
Where Texas Department of Motor Vehicles sits in the local pay range
$36,220
$39,610
$46,580
$49,410
$60,120
Texas Department of Motor Vehicles median · $50,480
The bar is the range of annual wages for Court, Municipal, and License Clerks across every employer in Texas, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Texas Department of Motor Vehicles’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Court, Municipal, and License Clerks — about 179,750 people — is $48,700. Texas Department of Motor Vehicles’s median base salary is 4% above that national figure, about the 54th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.
$36,300
$40,810
$48,700
$60,840
$73,820
Texas Department of Motor Vehicles median · $50,480
Local and national wages differ for reasons beyond how well a job pays — cost of living, the mix of employers, and local demand for the occupation all move the Texas range relative to the national one.
Median total compensation for this role at Texas Department of Motor Vehicles is $50,480, which includes overtime and employer-paid benefits. The benchmark above excludes both, so total compensation is deliberately not compared against it.
Benchmark: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025). BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) covers all employers in the area — private, non-profit, and government alike — so this is a comparison against the whole local labor market for the occupation, not against private-sector pay. OEWS wages are straight-time pay and exclude overtime, shift differentials, and employer-paid benefits, so the government figure shown here is base pay on the same basis. Total compensation is not comparable to it. Job titles are matched to the closest standard occupation, so the comparison is between similar work rather than an identical job classification.