Visalia, CA Salaries
Highest published occupation medians in Visalia, CA - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Visalia, CA moved from $44,320 in May 2024 to $45,130 in May 2025 (+1.8%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Visalia, CA sits -1.3 pp behind that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Visalia, CA
Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education publishes $98,430 here versus $63,970 nationally (+53.9%; 2,440metro-area jobs). Next is Registered Nurses at $125,180 locally versus $97,550 nationally (+28.3%).
- Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education$98,430 in Visalia, CA sits 53.9% above the national Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education median of $63,970 (2,440 published local jobs).
- Registered Nurses$125,180 in Visalia, CA sits 28.3% above the national Registered Nurses median of $97,550 (2,990 published local jobs).
- Fast Food and Counter Workers$38,600 in Visalia, CA sits 23.7% above the national Fast Food and Counter Workers median of $31,200 (4,850 published local jobs).
- Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary$45,230 in Visalia, CA sits 23.0% above the national Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary median of $36,780 (2,760 published local jobs).
Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Visalia, CA; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 47300 · Visalia, CA $57K mean
MEAN-LOW · RPP-MID · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-FULL
- MEAN-LOW #273/528
- RPP-MID 99.8
- OCC-MID 365 occs
- TOP-LEAD General Intern… · $307K
- EMP-MIX Education Ad…
- TREND-INLINE -1.3 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Coast Oregon non…
- BOOK-FULL 362 rows · May 2025
Read with Coast Oregon nonmetropolitan area ($2 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 Visalia, CA
Employment scale inside Visalia, CA's top-pay list
Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary and Financial Managers lead published employment inside Visalia, CA's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 520 jobs · $163,130
- 2. Financial Managers 370 jobs · $138,630
- 3. Pharmacists 310 jobs · $158,080
- 4. Lawyers 270 jobs · $150,140
- 5. Nurse Practitioners 250 jobs · $159,430
- 6. Managers, All Other 250 jobs · $130,570
- 7. Chief Executives 210 jobs · $155,510
- 8. Dentists, General 170 jobs · $214,950
- 9. School Psychologists 170 jobs · $128,020
- 10. Family Medicine Physicians 150 jobs · $226,500
- 11. Computer and Information Systems Managers 140 jobs · $160,790
- 12. Human Resources Managers 120 jobs · $142,320
- 13. Physician Assistants 100 jobs · $166,510
- 14. Marketing Managers 100 jobs · $140,040
- 15. Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists 100 jobs · $129,480
- 16. Education Administrators, All Other 80 jobs · $157,490
- 17. General Internal Medicine Physicians 70 jobs · $307,430
- 18. Architectural and Engineering Managers 60 jobs · $154,630
Occupations Tracked
365
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$57,490
employment-weighted, 362 complete rows
Top Salary
$307,430
General Internal Medicine Physicians
Cost of Living
99.8
0% below US avg
Highest Paying Jobs in Visalia, CA
Lowest Paying Jobs in Visalia, CA
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $34,320 |
| Waiters and Waitresses | $34,320 |
| Bartenders | $34,320 |
| Home Health and Personal Care Aides | $34,320 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $34,360 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $34,510 |
| Packers and Packagers, Hand | $34,740 |
| Dishwashers | $34,750 |
| Cashiers | $34,770 |
| Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse | $34,800 |
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 ($57,490 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.