El Centro, CA Salaries
Highest published occupation medians in El Centro, CA - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in El Centro, CA moved from $44,470 in May 2024 to $45,140 in May 2025 (+1.5%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- El Centro, CA sits -1.6 pp behind that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
Home Health and Personal Care Aides shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in El Centro, CA
Home Health and Personal Care Aides publishes $34,320 here versus $35,800 nationally (-4.1%; 8,020metro-area jobs). Next is Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse at $35,140 locally versus $35,660 nationally (-1.5%).
- Home Health and Personal Care Aides$34,320 in El Centro, CA sits 4.1% below the national Home Health and Personal Care Aides median of $35,800 (8,020 published local jobs).
- Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse$35,140 in El Centro, CA sits 1.5% below the national Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse median of $35,660 (3,350 published local jobs).
Home Health and Personal Care Aides and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for El Centro, CA; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 20940 · El Centro, CA $59K mean
MEAN-MID · RPP-MID · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST
- MEAN-MID #221/528
- RPP-MID 95.2
- OCC-MID 228 occs
- TOP-LEAD Physicians, Al… · $370K
- EMP-MIX Detectives a…
- TREND-INLINE -1.6 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH La Crosse-Onalas…
- BOOK-MOST 228 rows · May 2025
Read with La Crosse-Onalaska, WI-MN (+$9 on published-row mean) · Highest-paying careers
Instrument codes from this MSA’s OEWS published-row mean, BEA RPP, occupation book, employment lead, All Occupations pay change, and nearest peer — not a moving recommendation.
Published-row mean neighbourhood around El Centro, CA
Employment scale inside El Centro, CA's top-pay list
Detectives and Criminal Investigators and Managers, All Other lead published employment inside El Centro, CA's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Detectives and Criminal Investigators 770 jobs · $123,970
- 2. Managers, All Other 360 jobs · $147,410
- 3. Medical and Health Services Managers 220 jobs · $132,620
- 4. Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors 200 jobs · $141,760
- 5. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 170 jobs · $156,750
- 6. Financial Managers 130 jobs · $129,480
- 7. Lawyers 110 jobs · $162,580
- 8. Pharmacists 90 jobs · $158,490
- 9. Industrial Production Managers 80 jobs · $132,280
- 10. Nurse Practitioners 70 jobs · $164,700
- 11. Speech-Language Pathologists 70 jobs · $133,760
- 12. Software Developers 70 jobs · $125,930
- 13. Family Medicine Physicians 60 jobs · $220,170
- 14. Chief Executives 60 jobs · $177,950
- 15. Construction Managers 60 jobs · $130,630
- 16. Computer and Information Systems Managers 50 jobs · $152,360
- 17. First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives 50 jobs · $149,290
- 18. School Psychologists 50 jobs · $145,400
Occupations Tracked
228
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$59,189
employment-weighted, 228 complete rows
Top Salary
$370,290
Physicians, All Other
Cost of Living
95.2
5% below US avg
Highest Paying Jobs in El Centro, CA
Lowest Paying Jobs in El Centro, CA
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Packers and Packagers, Hand | $34,320 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $34,320 |
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $34,320 |
| Waiters and Waitresses | $34,320 |
| Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service Workers | $34,320 |
| Crossing Guards and Flaggers | $34,320 |
| Home Health and Personal Care Aides | $34,320 |
| Parking Attendants | $34,350 |
| Bartenders | $34,620 |
| Recreation Workers | $34,900 |
Other BLS Wage Areas in CA
Other metropolitan or nonmetropolitan OEWS areas assigned to the same state. Cross-state pay and employment peers live in Nationwide similar metros below.
Nationwide metros with similar published-row mean pay or employment scale
Two OEWS peer sets outside CA. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($59,189 here) and summed published employment.
Similar mean wage
Nearest other metros by employment-weighted published-row annual mean wage.
Peers are nearest-neighbor matches on BLS OEWS employment-weighted published-row mean wage and summed occupation employment. Employment peers exclude metros already listed in the mean-wage column so the two link sets stay distinct. Mean wage here is not a worker-level median.
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Source data and WageDex calculations are identified in context on this page. Occupation rows use BLS OEWS May 2025. The metro benchmark is WageDex's employment-weighted mean of published occupation means; where BEA RPP is available, the price-level figure divides that benchmark by the published area parity. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.