What salary do you need to live in Amarillo, TX?

The cost side of living in Amarillo

Median gross rent, meaning contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities, runs $854, $1,066 and $1,389 a month for one, two and three bedrooms across Amarillo, TX. The largest of those is 63% more than the smallest.

The median value of owner-occupied homes in the metro is $208,700. Against a median household income of $69,611, the ratio is 3.0× — one of the gentler home-price-to-income ratios in the country.

The Regional Price Parity, BEA's index of local prices with the US at 100, is 91.8 here. Below 100 means a paycheck stretches further: $100,000 in Amarillo has the buying power of roughly $108,909 at national average prices.

Income needed for each grade in Amarillo

With a two-bedroom at the median rent, the score enters Tight at $28,000, Okay at $55,000 and Comfortable at $110,000 a year before tax. At the Comfortable line, a year of rent takes 12% of income and the median home is 1.9× income.

Reaching Royal takes $327,000 — 3.0× the Comfortable line — because the last points come slowly once rent is already a small share.

These lines come straight from the calculator's formula: the income is raised until the two-bedroom score crosses each cutoff, then rounded up to the next $1,000.

Amarillo at four common salaries

On $75,000, a one-bedroom scores 58 and a three-bedroom 50, both Okay; the extra bedrooms cost points but not a grade.

Of the four salaries, $150,000 is the first where a two-bedroom reads Comfortable or better; $100,000 still lands at Okay.

How Amarillo ranks among 387 metros

Ranked against all 387 metros, Amarillo sits 248th on overall price level and 243rd on the two-bedroom rent median, counting from the most expensive. Its median home value ranks 285th.

Its nearest neighbors on the rent list are Janesville-Beloit, WI ($1,068) and Duluth, MN-WI ($1,066).

Amarillo in a Texas context

How Amarillo stacks up against its state: $1,066 for a two-bedroom against Texas's $1,395, $208,700 for the median home against $283,800, and a price level of 91.8 against 97.1.

Scored the same way, the statewide figures turn Comfortable at $166,000, so Amarillo needs $56,000 less than Texas overall.

Looking for somewhere comparable without leaving Texas? Killeen-Temple, TX, College Station-Bryan, TX, and Longview, TX have the closest mix of rent and overall prices.

Does the typical Amarillo income clear the bar?

A household at the Amarillo median income of $69,611 would see a two-bedroom score of 52 — Okay — with rent at 18% of income. Put differently, Amarillo's typical household is $40,389 below the $110,000 it takes to read Comfortable on two bedrooms. For Texas as a whole, the median household income of $78,476 scores 44 against statewide rents. Household income can include more than one earner, so a single salary of the same size goes less far.

Treat every number here as a pre-tax, public-data estimate rather than financial advice.