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.
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.
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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How to use Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA wage figures in a real decision
- Radiologists leads published medians in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA at $488,670/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Radiologists
- The employment-weighted published-row mean of $76,299 adjusts to about $67,185 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 113.6. 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.