Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA Salaries
Highest published occupation medians in Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA moved from $48,240 in May 2024 to $48,400 in May 2025 (+0.3%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA sits -2.8 pp behind that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
Correctional Officers and Jailers shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA
Correctional Officers and Jailers publishes $94,730 here versus $58,940 nationally (+60.7%; 4,800metro-area jobs). Next is Middle School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education at $100,810 locally versus $64,370 nationally (+56.6%).
- Correctional Officers and Jailers$94,730 in Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA sits 60.7% above the national Correctional Officers and Jailers median of $58,940 (4,800 published local jobs).
- Middle School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education$100,810 in Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA sits 56.6% above the national Middle School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education median of $64,370 (4,860 published local jobs).
- Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education$98,520 in Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA sits 54.0% above the national Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education median of $63,970 (18,850 published local jobs).
- Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary$161,380 in Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA sits 52.4% above the national Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary median of $105,870 (3,340 published local jobs).
Correctional Officers and Jailers and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 40140 · Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA $64K mean
MEAN-HIGH · RPP-ELEV · OCC-MOST · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-BEHIND · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-FULL
- MEAN-HIGH #115/528
- RPP-ELEV 106.4
- OCC-MOST 671 occs
- TOP-LEAD Obstetricians… · $375K
- EMP-MIX Computer and…
- TREND-BEHIND -2.8 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Redding, CA
- BOOK-FULL 647 rows · May 2025
Read with Redding, CA (+$78 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 Riverside-San Bernardino-On…
Employment scale inside Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA's top-pay list
Computer and Information Systems Managers and Physicians, All Other lead published employment inside Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Computer and Information Systems Managers 2,270 jobs · $176,320
- 2. Physicians, All Other 2,130 jobs · $279,090
- 3. Chief Executives 1,920 jobs · $176,700
- 4. Nurse Practitioners 1,710 jobs · $169,920
- 5. Architectural and Engineering Managers 1,160 jobs · $172,600
- 6. Physician Assistants 1,020 jobs · $165,490
- 7. Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary 560 jobs · $163,750
- 8. Psychiatrists 490 jobs · $364,530
- 9. Communications Teachers, Postsecondary 300 jobs · $180,650
- 10. Obstetricians and Gynecologists 280 jobs · $375,400
- 11. Natural Sciences Managers 260 jobs · $169,370
- 12. Social Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary, All Other 180 jobs · $180,230
- 13. Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers 160 jobs · $207,000
- 14. Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Teachers, Postsecondary 150 jobs · $223,240
- 15. Nurse Anesthetists 140 jobs · $298,910
- 16. Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary 130 jobs · $171,660
- 17. History Teachers, Postsecondary 110 jobs · $192,320
- 18. Podiatrists 100 jobs · $196,500
Occupations Tracked
671
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$64,085
employment-weighted, 647 complete rows
Top Salary
$375,400
Obstetricians and Gynecologists
Cost of Living
106.4
6% above US avg
Highest Paying Jobs in Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA
Lowest Paying Jobs in Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Home Health and Personal Care Aides | $34,320 |
| Gambling Dealers | $34,560 |
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $34,590 |
| Passenger Attendants | $34,750 |
| Waiters and Waitresses | $34,800 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $34,830 |
| Bartenders | $34,840 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $34,990 |
| Parking Attendants | $35,020 |
| Baggage Porters and Bellhops | $35,090 |
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 ($64,085 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.