Vallejo, CA Salaries
Highest published occupation medians in Vallejo, CA - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Vallejo, CA moved from $57,170 in May 2024 to $58,620 in May 2025 (+2.5%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Vallejo, CA sits -0.6 pp behind that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
Registered Nurses shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Vallejo, CA
Registered Nurses publishes $203,290 here versus $97,550 nationally (+108.4%; 4,120metro-area jobs). Next is Fast Food and Counter Workers at $44,110 locally versus $31,200 nationally (+41.4%).
- Registered Nurses$203,290 in Vallejo, CA sits 108.4% above the national Registered Nurses median of $97,550 (4,120 published local jobs).
- Fast Food and Counter Workers$44,110 in Vallejo, CA sits 41.4% above the national Fast Food and Counter Workers median of $31,200 (4,430 published local jobs).
- Stockers and Order Fillers$44,300 in Vallejo, CA sits 18.7% above the national Stockers and Order Fillers median of $37,330 (2,860 published local jobs).
- Cashiers$37,810 in Vallejo, CA sits 15.0% above the national Cashiers median of $32,880 (3,630 published local jobs).
Registered Nurses and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Vallejo, CA; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 46700 · Vallejo, CA $74K mean
MEAN-MEGA · RPP-ELEV · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-FULL
- MEAN-MEGA #24/528
- RPP-ELEV 108.5
- OCC-MID 365 occs
- TOP-LEAD Pediatricians,… · $357K
- EMP-MIX Registered N…
- TREND-INLINE -0.6 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH New Haven, CT
- BOOK-FULL 364 rows · May 2025
Read with New Haven, CT ($58 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 Vallejo, CA
Employment scale inside Vallejo, CA's top-pay list
Registered Nurses and Medical and Health Services Managers lead published employment inside Vallejo, CA's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Registered Nurses 4,120 jobs · $203,290
- 2. Medical and Health Services Managers 800 jobs · $170,730
- 3. Managers, All Other 380 jobs · $158,080
- 4. Pharmacists 350 jobs · $170,870
- 5. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 290 jobs · $163,150
- 6. Radiologic Technologists and Technicians 270 jobs · $160,380
- 7. Lawyers 220 jobs · $170,530
- 8. Computer and Information Systems Managers 200 jobs · $173,790
- 9. Nurse Practitioners 180 jobs · $182,370
- 10. Chief Executives 180 jobs · $180,180
- 11. Physician Assistants 150 jobs · $179,520
- 12. First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives 150 jobs · $175,070
- 13. Electrical Engineers 150 jobs · $160,060
- 14. Dentists, General 140 jobs · $183,000
- 15. Diagnostic Medical Sonographers 140 jobs · $171,170
- 16. Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists 130 jobs · $168,860
- 17. Human Resources Managers 120 jobs · $163,560
- 18. Marketing Managers 120 jobs · $161,560
Occupations Tracked
365
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$73,504
employment-weighted, 364 complete rows
Top Salary
$357,320
Pediatricians, General
Cost of Living
108.5
8% above US avg
Highest Paying Jobs in Vallejo, CA
Lowest Paying Jobs in Vallejo, CA
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Home Health and Personal Care Aides | $34,320 |
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $36,460 |
| Waiters and Waitresses | $36,610 |
| Manicurists and Pedicurists | $36,810 |
| Bartenders | $36,870 |
| Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service Workers | $37,010 |
| Physical Therapist Aides | $37,270 |
| Food Preparation and Serving Related Workers, All Other | $37,330 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $37,520 |
| Cashiers | $37,810 |
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 ($73,504 here) and summed published employment.
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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.