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.
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.
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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How to use San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR wage figures in a real decision
- Physicians, All Other leads published medians in San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR at $141,670/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Physicians, All Other
- San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR's employment-weighted published-row mean is $38,831 across 487 occupation rows with employment estimates. Understanding BLS data
- Compare this metropolitan statistical area against the statewide occupation table for PR 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.