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.
Based on wage level, year-over-year wage growth, and regional-price-parity-adjusted purchasing power from BLS and BEA sources, not job availability, industry mix, or day-to-day livability.
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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How to use El Centro, CA wage figures in a real decision
- Physicians, All Other leads published medians in El Centro, CA at $370,290/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Physicians, All Other
- The employment-weighted published-row mean of $59,189 adjusts to about $62,190 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 95.2. Salary vs cost of living
- Compare this metropolitan statistical area against the statewide occupation table for CA before treating one geography as the other. State wage page
BLS OEWS estimates reflect the May 2025 reference period; small occupation-area cells can be suppressed, and figures are not employer offers.
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.