Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA Salaries
Local wages against a high BEA price level (RPP 113.6) - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA moved from $53,490 in May 2024 to $55,850 in May 2025 (+4.4%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA sits +1.3 pp ahead of that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention Workers shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA
First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention Workers publishes $169,350 here versus $93,530 nationally (+81.1%; 2,410metro-area jobs). Next is Firefighters at $98,050 locally versus $59,280 nationally (+65.4%).
- First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention Workers$169,350 in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA sits 81.1% above the national First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention Workers median of $93,530 (2,410 published local jobs).
- Firefighters$98,050 in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA sits 65.4% above the national Firefighters median of $59,280 (7,200 published local jobs).
- English Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary$128,810 in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA sits 63.5% above the national English Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary median of $78,760 (2,150 published local jobs).
- Probation Officers and Correctional Treatment Specialists$108,150 in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA sits 63.2% above the national Probation Officers and Correctional Treatment Specialists median of $66,270 (4,700 published local jobs).
First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention Workers and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 31080 · Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA $76K mean
MEAN-MEGA · RPP-ELEV · OCC-FULL · TOP-LEAD · EMP-HEAVY · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-FULL
- MEAN-MEGA #16/528
- RPP-ELEV 113.6
- OCC-FULL 737 occs
- TOP-LEAD Radiologists · $489K
- EMP-HEAVY Lawyers
- TREND-INLINE +1.3 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Sacramento-Rosev…
- BOOK-FULL 697 rows · May 2025
Read with Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA ($1 on published-row mean) · Salary vs. cost of living
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 Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anah…
Largest Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA payrolls before the high-cost adjustment
Lawyers and Financial Managers lead published employment inside Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Lawyers 41,580 jobs · $194,410
- 2. Financial Managers 34,480 jobs · $175,310
- 3. Computer and Information Systems Managers 23,180 jobs · $204,370
- 4. Chief Executives 10,800 jobs · $234,290
- 5. Architectural and Engineering Managers 9,570 jobs · $190,900
- 6. Physicians, All Other 6,810 jobs · $196,760
- 7. Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers 6,710 jobs · $364,730
- 8. Pediatricians, General 3,080 jobs · $176,900
- 9. Natural Sciences Managers 2,530 jobs · $193,340
- 10. Psychiatrists 1,610 jobs · $370,510
- 11. Air Traffic Controllers 690 jobs · $173,020
- 12. Atmospheric, Earth, Marine, and Space Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary 580 jobs · $175,120
- 13. Physics Teachers, Postsecondary 440 jobs · $172,510
- 14. Podiatrists 350 jobs · $199,990
- 15. Physicians, Pathologists 330 jobs · $319,340
- 16. Radiologists 310 jobs · $488,670
- 17. Nurse Midwives 220 jobs · $202,850
Occupations Tracked
737
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$76,299
employment-weighted, 697 complete rows
Top Salary
$488,670
Radiologists
Cost of Living
113.6
14% above US avg
Highest Paying Jobs in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA
Lowest Paying Jobs in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Home Health and Personal Care Aides | $34,320 |
| Motorboat Operators | $34,510 |
| Door-to-Door Sales Workers, News and Street Vendors, and Related Workers | $35,090 |
| Gambling Dealers | $35,090 |
| Bartenders | $35,510 |
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $35,800 |
| Waiters and Waitresses | $35,850 |
| Gambling Service Workers, All Other | $36,040 |
| Slaughterers and Meat Packers | $36,270 |
| Textile, Apparel, and Furnishings Workers, All Other | $36,540 |
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 ($76,299 here) and summed published employment.
Similar mean wage
Nearest other metros by employment-weighted published-row annual mean wage.
Similar employment scale
Nearest headcount peers (floor 100,000 summed published jobs), distinct from the mean-wage column.
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.