San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR Salaries
Largest OEWS employment footprints with published wages - BLS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR moved from $28,080 in May 2024 to $29,440 in May 2025 (+4.8%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR sits +1.7 pp ahead of that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR
Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel publishes $28,960 here versus $69,990 nationally (-58.6%; 2,480metro-area jobs). Next is Registered Nurses at $41,980 locally versus $97,550 nationally (-57.0%).
- Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel$28,960 in San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR sits 58.6% below the national Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel median of $69,990 (2,480 published local jobs).
- Registered Nurses$41,980 in San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR sits 57.0% below the national Registered Nurses median of $97,550 (14,940 published local jobs).
- Buyers and Purchasing Agents$34,190 in San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR sits 56.0% below the national Buyers and Purchasing Agents median of $77,710 (3,520 published local jobs).
- Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers$26,170 in San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR sits 55.4% below the national Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers median of $58,640 (7,770 published local jobs).
Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 41980 · San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR $39K mean
MEAN-TRACE · RPP-UNK · OCC-MOST · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · NEAR-LOWER · BOOK-FULL
- MEAN-TRACE #522/528
- RPP-UNK RPP n/a
- OCC-MOST 514 occs
- TOP-LEAD Physicians, Al… · $142K
- EMP-MIX Financial Ma…
- TREND-INLINE +1.7 pp
- NEAR-LOWER Aguadilla, PR
- BOOK-FULL 487 rows · May 2025
Read with Aguadilla, PR ($3,227 on published-row mean) · Fastest-growing occupations
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 Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR
Largest published OEWS footprints in San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR
Financial Managers and Chief Executives lead published employment inside San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Financial Managers 3,200 jobs · $94,600
- 2. Chief Executives 2,180 jobs · $98,800
- 3. Pharmacists 1,480 jobs · $113,420
- 4. Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary 1,260 jobs · $101,530
- 5. Computer and Information Systems Managers 1,190 jobs · $99,780
- 6. Physicians, All Other 810 jobs · $141,670
- 7. Industrial Production Managers 740 jobs · $130,690
- 8. Engineers, All Other 740 jobs · $95,990
- 9. Architectural and Engineering Managers 540 jobs · $132,180
- 10. School Psychologists 510 jobs · $97,210
- 11. Family Medicine Physicians 470 jobs · $126,310
- 12. Optometrists 220 jobs · $132,790
- 13. Education Administrators, All Other 210 jobs · $100,860
- 14. Veterinarians 130 jobs · $91,170
- 15. Air Traffic Controllers 110 jobs · $125,780
- 16. Training and Development Managers 110 jobs · $95,170
- 17. Dentists, General 100 jobs · $120,160
- 18. Natural Sciences Managers 70 jobs · $119,430
Occupations Tracked
514
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$38,831
employment-weighted, 487 complete rows
Top Salary
$141,670
Physicians, All Other
Top-pay occupations in San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR, by employment
Same top-pay sample as the salary ranking, sorted by published local jobs so the title sequence follows the OEWS mix.
| # | Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Financial Managers | $94,600 |
| 2 | Chief Executives | $98,800 |
| 3 | Pharmacists | $113,420 |
| 4 | Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary | $101,530 |
| 5 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $99,780 |
| 6 | Physicians, All Other | $141,670 |
| 7 | Industrial Production Managers | $130,690 |
| 8 | Engineers, All Other | $95,990 |
| 9 | Architectural and Engineering Managers | $132,180 |
| 10 | School Psychologists | $97,210 |
| 11 | Family Medicine Physicians | $126,310 |
| 12 | Optometrists | $132,790 |
| 13 | Education Administrators, All Other | $100,860 |
| 14 | Veterinarians | $91,170 |
| 15 | Air Traffic Controllers | $125,780 |
| 16 | Training and Development Managers | $95,170 |
| 17 | Dentists, General | $120,160 |
| 18 | Natural Sciences Managers | $119,430 |
| 19 | Database Architects | $98,890 |
| 20 | Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Workers, All Other | $103,380 |
| 21 | Physics Teachers, Postsecondary | $90,180 |
| 22 | Obstetricians and Gynecologists | $124,150 |
| 23 | Physical Scientists, All Other | $97,150 |
| 24 | Architecture Teachers, Postsecondary | $126,700 |
| 25 | Pediatricians, General | $98,350 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Refuse and Recyclable Material Collectors | $21,840 |
| Packers and Packagers, Hand | $21,840 |
| Parking Attendants | $21,840 |
| Metal Workers and Plastic Workers, All Other | $21,840 |
| Coil Winders, Tapers, and Finishers | $21,840 |
| Highway Maintenance Workers | $21,840 |
| Personal Care and Service Workers, All Other | $21,840 |
| Baggage Porters and Bellhops | $21,840 |
| Ushers, Lobby Attendants, and Ticket Takers | $21,840 |
| Food Servers, Nonrestaurant | $21,840 |
Other BLS Wage Areas in PR
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 PR. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($38,831 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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