San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA Salaries
Local wages against a high BEA price level (RPP 115.6) - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA moved from $73,960 in May 2024 to $74,260 in May 2025 (+0.4%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA sits -2.7 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.
Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA
Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary publishes $357,220 here versus $107,310 nationally (+232.9%; 4,340metro-area jobs). Next is Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators at $124,750 locally versus $59,850 nationally (+108.4%).
- Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary$357,220 in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA sits 232.9% above the national Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary median of $107,310 (4,340 published local jobs).
- Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators$124,750 in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA sits 108.4% above the national Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators median of $59,850 (4,080 published local jobs).
- Firefighters$113,700 in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA sits 91.8% above the national Firefighters median of $59,280 (3,450 published local jobs).
- Registered Nurses$186,610 in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA sits 91.3% above the national Registered Nurses median of $97,550 (41,750 published local jobs).
Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 41860 · San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA $100K mean
MEAN-MEGA · RPP-HOT · OCC-MOST · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-BEHIND · NEAR-LOWER · BOOK-FULL
- MEAN-MEGA #2/528
- RPP-HOT 115.6
- OCC-MOST 687 occs
- TOP-LEAD Ophthalmologis… · $429K
- EMP-MIX Computer and…
- TREND-BEHIND -2.7 pp
- NEAR-LOWER Seattle-Tacoma-B…
- BOOK-FULL 663 rows · May 2025
Read with Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA ($8,375 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 San Francisco-Oakland-Fremo…
Largest San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA payrolls before the high-cost adjustment
Computer and Information Systems Managers and Managers, All Other lead published employment inside San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA's top-pay sample, order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Computer and Information Systems Managers 23,830 jobs · $232,890
- 2. Managers, All Other 21,550 jobs · $210,080
- 3. Lawyers 18,470 jobs · $212,500
- 4. Financial Managers 17,040 jobs · $216,150
- 5. Marketing Managers 11,170 jobs · $220,480
- 6. Natural Sciences Managers 5,530 jobs · $225,230
- 7. Chief Executives 5,190 jobs · $288,690
- 8. Architectural and Engineering Managers 5,000 jobs · $221,580
- 9. Human Resources Managers 4,960 jobs · $209,340
- 10. Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary 4,340 jobs · $357,220
- 11. Physicians, All Other 3,530 jobs · $294,360
- 12. Nurse Practitioners 3,110 jobs · $219,080
- 13. Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers 2,900 jobs · $374,680
- 14. Family Medicine Physicians 2,170 jobs · $304,560
- 15. Veterinarians 1,350 jobs · $208,080
- 16. Pediatricians, General 810 jobs · $207,450
- 17. Materials Scientists 380 jobs · $231,710
- 18. Emergency Medicine Physicians 370 jobs · $338,990
Occupations Tracked
687
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$99,708
employment-weighted, 663 complete rows
Top Salary
$429,080
Ophthalmologists, Except Pediatric
Cost of Living
115.6
16% above US avg
Highest Paying Jobs in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA
| # | Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ophthalmologists, Except Pediatric | $429,080 |
| 2 | Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers | $374,680 |
| 3 | Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary | $357,220 |
| 4 | General Internal Medicine Physicians | $351,670 |
| 5 | Emergency Medicine Physicians | $338,990 |
| 6 | Family Medicine Physicians | $304,560 |
| 7 | Physicians, All Other | $294,360 |
| 8 | Chief Executives | $288,690 |
| 9 | Dentists, All Other Specialists | $279,820 |
| 10 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $232,890 |
| 11 | Materials Scientists | $231,710 |
| 12 | Psychiatrists | $230,560 |
| 13 | Natural Sciences Managers | $225,230 |
| 14 | Architectural and Engineering Managers | $221,580 |
| 15 | Marketing Managers | $220,480 |
| 16 | Nurse Practitioners | $219,080 |
| 17 | Financial Managers | $216,150 |
| 18 | Nurse Midwives | $212,630 |
| 19 | Lawyers | $212,500 |
| 20 | Managers, All Other | $210,080 |
| 21 | Human Resources Managers | $209,340 |
| 22 | Veterinarians | $208,080 |
| 23 | Pediatricians, General | $207,450 |
| 24 | Radiation Therapists | $205,670 |
| 25 | Podiatrists | $204,350 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Home Health and Personal Care Aides | $35,950 |
| Forest and Conservation Workers | $36,080 |
| Gambling and Sports Book Writers and Runners | $36,360 |
| Gambling Dealers | $37,240 |
| Waiters and Waitresses | $38,860 |
| Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service Workers | $39,120 |
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $39,310 |
| Gambling Cage Workers | $39,390 |
| Bartenders | $39,670 |
| Food Processing Workers, All Other | $39,770 |
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 ($99,708 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 San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA wage figures in a real decision
- Ophthalmologists, Except Pediatric leads published medians in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA at $429,080/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Ophthalmologists, Except Pediatric
- The employment-weighted published-row mean of $99,708 adjusts to about $86,243 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 115.6. 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.