The San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA all-occupations median was 15.1% 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 57,080.
Among those high-employment rows, Cooks, Fast Food had the highest published location quotient at 1.68. 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 San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, 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...: 57,080 jobs. Fast Food and Counter...: 42,550 jobs. Retail Salespersons: 34,390 jobs. Cashiers: 30,420 jobs. Registered Nurses: 28,680 jobs. Office Clerks, General: 28,470 jobs.
$35,300/yearEmployment: 57,080 Jobs per 1,000: 37.11 Location quotient: 1.34
57,080
37.11
1.34
Price-level context
What the local median may buy
BEA's 2024 all-items price index for San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA was 111.9, or 11.9% above the national price level. Its housing index was 179.3.
National-price-dollar proxy
$52,455
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 San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA; U.S. = 100
U.S. baseline: 100.0. All items: 111.9. Housing: 179.3.
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 41740.
Questions, answered
Wage data for San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA: common questions
What is the all-occupations median wage in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA?
The May 2025 BLS OEWS release published an all-occupations median of $58,690 per year in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, 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 San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA?
BLS published an all-occupations employment estimate of 1,538,060 jobs for San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA. It is a survey estimate, not a current opening count.
What is the largest detailed occupation shown for San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA?
Home Health and Personal Care Aides is the largest detailed occupation in the bounded table on this page, with 57,080 estimated jobs and a published median of $35,300 per year.
Does the San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA wage data adjust for local prices?
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What the all-jobs median says about San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA
The May 2025 BLS OEWS estimate puts the all-occupations median in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA at $58,690 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 1,538,060 covered jobs in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA. The all-occupations mean is $79,060 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.
San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA's $58,690 all-occupations median is 15.1% 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 San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA sits among metro areas
San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA ranks 26 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. San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA has 1,538,060 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.
23. Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA has an all-occupations median of $59,590 per year and 52,600 covered jobs. Its wage gap from San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA is $900.
24. Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI has an all-occupations median of $59,320 per year and 1,951,650 covered jobs. Its wage gap from San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA is $630.
25. Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD has an all-occupations median of $59,070 per year and 1,356,680 covered jobs. Its wage gap from San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA is $380.
27. Vallejo, CA has an all-occupations median of $58,620 per year and 144,130 covered jobs. Its wage gap from San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA is $70.
28. Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY has an all-occupations median of $58,460 per year and 449,410 covered jobs. Its wage gap from San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA is $230.
29. Ithaca, NY has an all-occupations median of $58,130 per year and 47,980 covered jobs. Its wage gap from San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA is $560.
The largest detailed occupations shown for San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA
The role list is sorted by the BLS employment estimate. It shows detailed occupations from the bounded source table for San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA. The first row, Home Health and Personal Care Aides, has 57,080 estimated jobs. Its median is $35,300 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 57,080 estimated jobs in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA. Its published median is $35,300 per year. Its location quotient is 1.34.
2. Fast Food and Counter Workers has 42,550 estimated jobs in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA. Its published median is $42,190 per year. Its location quotient is 1.12.
Role pay range
How published medians differ inside San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA
The detailed roles shown for San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA do not share one pay level. Software Developers has the highest published median in this bounded role set, at $163,270 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 $58,690 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 $163,270 per year in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA. BLS lists 20,610 jobs. Its local share is 1.23 times the national share.
2. Registered Nurses has a published median of $139,520 per year in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA. BLS lists 28,680 jobs. Its local share is 0.86 times the national share.
3. General and Operations Managers has a published median of $119,600 per year in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA. BLS lists 26,230 jobs. Its local share is 0.76 times the national share.
Local share
Roles with a larger local share in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA
Location quotient compares a role's share of jobs in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, 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.
Cooks, Fast Food has the highest published location quotient in this bounded set, at 1.68. The same row has 10,630 jobs and a median of $42,450 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. Cooks, Fast Food has a location quotient of 1.68 in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA. BLS lists 10,630 jobs and a median of $42,450 per year.
2. Business Operations Specialists, All Other has a location quotient of 1.46 in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA. BLS lists 15,690 jobs and a median of $96,580 per year.
3. Home Health and Personal Care Aides has a location quotient of 1.34 in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA. BLS lists 57,080 jobs and a median of $35,300 per year.
Separate price view
What the BEA price level adds for San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA
BEA's 2024 all-items price index for San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA is 111.9. The U.S. level is 100. The local all-items level is 11.9% above that mark. This is a broad price comparison. It is not a personal budget.
The housing index is 179.3. The goods index is 108.0. Utilities are 174.2. Other services are 99.6. 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 San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA
The all-occupations employment RSE for San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA is 0%. The mean-wage RSE is 0.4%. 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 1,538,060 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 San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, 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 San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, 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 San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, 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 San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA's $58,690 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 San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA page does not say
The page does not say what one person in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, 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 26 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 34,390 estimated jobs in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA. Its published median is $37,810 per year. Its location quotient is 0.89.
4. Cashiers has 30,420 estimated jobs in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA. Its published median is $37,020 per year. Its location quotient is 1.
5. Registered Nurses has 28,680 estimated jobs in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA. Its published median is $139,520 per year. Its location quotient is 0.86.
6. Office Clerks, General has 28,470 estimated jobs in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA. Its published median is $49,920 per year. Its location quotient is 1.17.
7. General and Operations Managers has 26,230 estimated jobs in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA. Its published median is $119,600 per year. Its location quotient is 0.76.
8. Waiters and Waitresses has 24,050 estimated jobs in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA. Its published median is $35,850 per year. Its location quotient is 1.07.
4. Project Management Specialists has a published median of $117,460 per year in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA. BLS lists 10,740 jobs. Its local share is 1.02 times the national share.
5. Management Analysts has a published median of $101,190 per year in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA. BLS lists 11,950 jobs. Its local share is 1.34 times the national share.
6. Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education has a published median of $97,000 per year in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA. BLS lists 11,340 jobs. Its local share is 0.83 times the national share.
7. Business Operations Specialists, All Other has a published median of $96,580 per year in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA. BLS lists 15,690 jobs. Its local share is 1.46 times the national share.
8. Accountants and Auditors has a published median of $96,340 per year in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA. BLS lists 13,450 jobs. Its local share is 0.94 times the national share.
4. Management Analysts has a location quotient of 1.34 in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA. BLS lists 11,950 jobs and a median of $101,190 per year.
5. Security Guards has a location quotient of 1.27 in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA. BLS lists 16,090 jobs and a median of $38,500 per year.
6. Software Developers has a location quotient of 1.23 in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA. BLS lists 20,610 jobs and a median of $163,270 per year.
7. Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants has a location quotient of 1.18 in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA. BLS lists 11,260 jobs and a median of $51,650 per year.
8. Office Clerks, General has a location quotient of 1.17 in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA. BLS lists 28,470 jobs and a median of $49,920 per year.
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