The Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA all-occupations median was 9.6% above the U.S. all-occupations median in the same release. Home Health and Personal Care Aides had the largest published employment estimate among the 30 occupation rows shown on this hub, at 385,530.
Among those high-employment rows, Home Health and Personal Care Aides had the highest published location quotient at 2.22. A location quotient above 1.00 means a larger share of local employment than the national share; it does not measure job quality or future demand.
Occupation detail
Largest published occupations in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA
Sorted by published employment. Open a row for its local distribution, national comparison, and jobs.
Largest published occupation estimates by employment
Six high-employment rows from the bounded area summary. The table below keeps each full title and published field.
Home Health and Perso...: 385,530 jobs. Fast Food and Counter...: 160,270 jobs. Retail Salespersons: 130,650 jobs. Laborers and Freight,...: 120,720 jobs. Office Clerks, General: 112,270 jobs. Cashiers: 109,940 jobs.
$34,320/yearEmployment: 385,530 Jobs per 1,000: 61.47 Location quotient: 2.22
385,530
61.47
2.22
Price-level context
What the local median may buy
BEA's 2024 all-items price index for Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA was 113.6, or 13.6% above the national price level. Its housing index was 170.4.
National-price-dollar proxy
$49,178
WageScope divides the published all occupations median by the BEA all-items index. This is a price-level comparison, not take-home pay, a personal budget, or a quality-of-life score.
Wage period: BLS May 2025. Price period: BEA 2024. The releases describe different periods and are shown separately.
Price level in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA; U.S. = 100
U.S. baseline: 100.0. All items: 113.6. Housing: 170.4.
Read the all-jobs wage, role mix, local job shares, price-level context, and survey limits as separate facts. Every value stays tied to BLS area 31080.
Questions, answered
Wage data for Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA: common questions
What is the all-occupations median wage in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA?
The May 2025 BLS OEWS release published an all-occupations median of $55,850 per year in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA. It combines covered wage and salary jobs and is not a median for every individual occupation.
How many wage and salary jobs does BLS estimate in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA?
BLS published an all-occupations employment estimate of 6,271,560 jobs for Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA. It is a survey estimate, not a current opening count.
What is the largest detailed occupation shown for Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA?
Home Health and Personal Care Aides is the largest detailed occupation in the bounded table on this page, with 385,530 estimated jobs and a published median of $34,320 per year.
Does the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA wage data adjust for local prices?
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What the all-jobs median says about Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA
The May 2025 BLS OEWS estimate puts the all-occupations median in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA at $55,850 per year. This is the middle wage across covered wage and salary jobs in the area. It is not the median for each job title. It is not one worker's pay. Use an occupation page when you need a role-level answer.
BLS lists 6,271,560 covered jobs in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA. The all-occupations mean is $77,270 per year. Mean means add the wage values and split the total by the number of jobs behind the estimate. The median and mean can differ because the local wage mix is not even.
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA's $55,850 all-occupations median is 9.6% above the U.S. all-occupations median of $50,980 on the same published median. This is a wage check on the same source period. It does not add local price levels, taxes, hours, benefits, or household needs.
Where Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA sits among metro areas
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA ranks 46 of 393 among metro areas with a published annual all-occupations median. WageScope keeps the map type the same. It does not place a state, metro, and nonmetro row in one rank. The rank uses the May 2025 BLS median only.
A rank is a place in a sorted list. It is not a score. It does not say a place is good or bad. It does not show the size of the job base. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA has 6,271,560 covered jobs, while another row near it can have a very different count.
The nearby rank rows give context without turning the list into a league table. Small gaps can move a place by several spots. A later BLS release can also change the order. Read the wage gap and the source date beside the rank. Do not use rank alone to make a move.
43. Carson City, NV has an all-occupations median of $56,680 per year and 31,940 covered jobs. Its wage gap from Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA is $830.
44. Manchester-Nashua, NH has an all-occupations median of $56,530 per year and 199,560 covered jobs. Its wage gap from Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA is $680.
45. Barnstable Town, MA has an all-occupations median of $56,360 per year and 94,110 covered jobs. Its wage gap from Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA is $510.
47. Ann Arbor, MI has an all-occupations median of $55,380 per year and 219,730 covered jobs. Its wage gap from Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA is $470.
48. Fort Collins-Loveland, CO has an all-occupations median of $55,310 per year and 169,430 covered jobs. Its wage gap from Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA is $540.
49. Salem, OR has an all-occupations median of $55,310 per year and 188,620 covered jobs. Its wage gap from Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA is $540.
The largest detailed occupations shown for Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA
The role list is sorted by the BLS employment estimate. It shows detailed occupations from the bounded source table for Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA. The first row, Home Health and Personal Care Aides, has 385,530 estimated jobs. Its median is $34,320 per year.
Large roles shape the all-occupations wage mix, but they do not set it by themselves. A role with many jobs and a lower wage can pull the middle one way. A smaller role with a higher wage can move the mean. The all-occupations row is based on the whole covered job mix, not just the occupations shown in this bounded list.
Employment here means wage and salary jobs in the BLS survey scope. It does not mean people looking for work. It does not mean openings. It does not show how fast a role is changing. Use the current job cards only to inspect dated employer-title matches. Keep that view apart from this May 2025 job count.
1. Home Health and Personal Care Aides has 385,530 estimated jobs in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA. Its published median is $34,320 per year. Its location quotient is 2.22.
2. Fast Food and Counter Workers has 160,270 estimated jobs in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA. Its published median is $42,110 per year. Its location quotient is 1.03.
Role pay range
How published medians differ inside Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA
The detailed roles shown for Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA do not share one pay level. Software Developers has the highest published median in this bounded role set, at $160,920 per year. That does not make it the highest-paid role in every job or in every part of the area.
The list keeps each official SOC title tied to its own wage row. It does not blend fields, levels, or job posts. A role median can be above the $55,850 all-occupations median even when the role has few jobs. A large role can sit below that mark. Pay and job count answer different questions.
Use a role's own WageScope page before you compare places. That page shows the national spread, the same SOC code across areas, and the source limits. The area list is a starting map. It is not enough to set a pay target for one person or one listing.
1. Software Developers has a published median of $160,920 per year in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA. BLS lists 55,540 jobs. Its local share is 0.82 times the national share.
2. Registered Nurses has a published median of $135,560 per year in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA. BLS lists 109,360 jobs. Its local share is 0.8 times the national share.
3. General and Operations Managers has a published median of $125,830 per year in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA. BLS lists 104,610 jobs. Its local share is 0.74 times the national share.
Local share
Roles with a larger local share in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA
Location quotient compares a role's share of jobs in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA with that role's share across the nation. A value of 1 means the shares match. A value above 1 means the role takes a larger share of local jobs. A value below 1 means the share is smaller. The value does not show growth or open jobs.
Home Health and Personal Care Aides has the highest published location quotient in this bounded set, at 2.22. The same row has 385,530 jobs and a median of $34,320 per year. Read all three fields together.
A high share can appear in a small job base. A large job count can appear with a share near 1. A high median can appear in either case. The three measures are not a single score. They help you ask three clear questions: how many jobs, how common the role is in the local mix, and what wage BLS published.
1. Home Health and Personal Care Aides has a location quotient of 2.22 in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA. BLS lists 385,530 jobs and a median of $34,320 per year.
2. Cooks, Fast Food has a location quotient of 1.87 in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA. BLS lists 48,440 jobs and a median of $38,000 per year.
3. Security Guards has a location quotient of 1.61 in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA. BLS lists 83,280 jobs and a median of $40,030 per year.
Separate price view
What the BEA price level adds for Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA
BEA's 2024 all-items price index for Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA is 113.6. The U.S. level is 100. The local all-items level is 13.6% above that mark. This is a broad price comparison. It is not a personal budget.
The housing index is 170.4. The goods index is 106.6. Utilities are 158.6. Other services are 104.4. These parts can move in different ways. The all-items number joins them with BEA's method; WageScope does not pick its own weights.
The BLS wage period is May 2025. The BEA price period is 2024. WageScope shows both dates because the clocks differ. It can divide a wage by the all-items index for a clear national-price-dollar proxy. It does not call that result take-home pay, spending power for one home, or a place score.
How to read survey care marks for Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA
The all-occupations employment RSE for Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA is 0%. The mean-wage RSE is 0.5%. RSE means relative standard error. It is a survey precision flag. A smaller value often means less sampling uncertainty. It is not an error bar for one person's wage.
The employment RSE belongs to the 6,271,560 job estimate. The mean-wage RSE belongs to the all-occupations mean. WageScope does not attach either field to a detailed role, the median, or a percentile. Each role row has its own published care marks when BLS supplies them.
Some BLS values are blank or top coded. Blank does not mean zero. A top code means the value is at least the shown bound. WageScope keeps those states in the role pages and tables. It does not fill a missing value from a peer role, past year, or nearby place.
Use Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA as a map, then choose one occupation
Start with the role that matches the work you mean. Official titles can sound broad. Open the role page and check its SOC code. Then compare the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA row with the U.S. row on the same annual or hourly metric. Read the job count and location quotient beside the wage. Add the BEA price level only when the exact row is present.
Next, look at the wage spread. The median shows the middle. The 10th, 25th, 75th, and 90th percentiles show more of the range. A posted job range can be compared with those marks as context, but it stays employer evidence. It never becomes part of the BLS estimate.
If the role-place row is missing, use the national role page or choose another official area. Do not guess. A clean missing state is more useful than a made-up number. It tells you what the source can and cannot answer.
Move from Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA wage data to one checked job
The area page does not treat every local job as the same. Choose an occupation first. WageScope can then use a strict employer-title match for that role. A place filter is used only when the BLS area has an exact approved match in the public place list. If that match is not safe, the page says so.
Each shown job keeps the employer, place, source, and seen date. The cards can change as the public catalog changes. They do not count toward this page's stable content gate. They do not change Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA's $55,850 all-occupations median. They do not prove that the employer uses the BLS title.
Open a listing before you tailor. Use facts from your own work that you can support. A wage value is not a skill, result, or duty. MeritLog can help shape confirmed work for the listing you chose. The public area page does not save the role, listing, place, or résumé on load.
What this Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA page does not say
The page does not say what one person in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA earns. It does not promise a wage, job, move, or result. It does not call the all-occupations median a role wage. It does not turn rank 46 of 393 into a place score. It does not say why wages differ.
The BLS job count leaves out people who work for themselves and other work outside the survey scope. The current job cards are a separate set of public listings. Neither source shows all work. Neither source tells you the chance of getting hired. A missing value stays missing.
Use the page for a narrow task. See the May 2025 local wage picture. Choose one official occupation. Compare the same field across like places. Add the separate 2024 price level when it exists. Read a current employer-title match. Then make a résumé choice from work facts you have confirmed.
No. BLS wage estimates are nominal. Where an exact BEA Regional Price Parity row exists, WageScope shows that price-level context separately and labels its source period.
Are MeritLog job listings part of the government wage estimate?
No. Eligible live listings remain separate from BLS statistics. Their locations and posted pay do not change the official area or occupation rows.
3. Retail Salespersons has 130,650 estimated jobs in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA. Its published median is $37,700 per year. Its location quotient is 0.83.
4. Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand has 120,720 estimated jobs in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA. Its published median is $42,390 per year. Its location quotient is 1.01.
5. Office Clerks, General has 112,270 estimated jobs in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA. Its published median is $48,100 per year. Its location quotient is 1.13.
6. Cashiers has 109,940 estimated jobs in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA. Its published median is $36,980 per year. Its location quotient is 0.88.
7. Registered Nurses has 109,360 estimated jobs in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA. Its published median is $135,560 per year. Its location quotient is 0.8.
8. General and Operations Managers has 104,610 estimated jobs in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA. Its published median is $125,830 per year. Its location quotient is 0.74.
4. Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education has a published median of $101,860 per year in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA. BLS lists 44,790 jobs. Its local share is 0.8 times the national share.
5. Accountants and Auditors has a published median of $94,360 per year in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA. BLS lists 70,640 jobs. Its local share is 1.21 times the national share.
6. Business Operations Specialists, All Other has a published median of $82,750 per year in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA. BLS lists 50,470 jobs. Its local share is 1.15 times the national share.
7. Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel has a published median of $79,450 per year in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA. BLS lists 50,470 jobs. Its local share is 1 times the national share.
8. First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers has a published median of $77,530 per year in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA. BLS lists 54,340 jobs. Its local share is 0.94 times the national share.
4. Food Preparation Workers has a location quotient of 1.25 in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA. BLS lists 44,930 jobs and a median of $39,770 per year.
5. Accountants and Auditors has a location quotient of 1.21 in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA. BLS lists 70,640 jobs and a median of $94,360 per year.
6. Business Operations Specialists, All Other has a location quotient of 1.15 in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA. BLS lists 50,470 jobs and a median of $82,750 per year.
7. Office Clerks, General has a location quotient of 1.13 in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA. BLS lists 112,270 jobs and a median of $48,100 per year.
8. Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scientific Products has a location quotient of 1.1 in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA. BLS lists 54,950 jobs and a median of $74,490 per year.
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