The San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR all-occupations median was 42.3% below the U.S. all-occupations median in the same release. Retail Salespersons had the largest published employment estimate among the 30 occupation rows shown on this hub, at 27,950.
Among those high-employment rows, Security Guards had the highest published location quotient at 3.93. 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 Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR
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.
Retail Salespersons: 27,950 jobs. Security Guards: 22,420 jobs. Janitors and Cleaners...: 21,530 jobs. Cashiers: 18,010 jobs. Fast Food and Counter...: 17,900 jobs. Customer Service Repr...: 15,940 jobs.
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 41980.
Questions, answered
Wage data for San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR: common questions
What is the all-occupations median wage in San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR?
The May 2025 BLS OEWS release published an all-occupations median of $29,440 per year in San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR. 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 Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR?
BLS published an all-occupations employment estimate of 690,810 jobs for San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR. It is a survey estimate, not a current opening count.
What is the largest detailed occupation shown for San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR?
Retail Salespersons is the largest detailed occupation in the bounded table on this page, with 27,950 estimated jobs and a published median of $22,780 per year.
Does the San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR wage data adjust for local prices?
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What the all-jobs median says about San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR
The May 2025 BLS OEWS estimate puts the all-occupations median in San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR at $29,440 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 690,810 covered jobs in San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR. The all-occupations mean is $39,970 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 Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR's $29,440 all-occupations median is 42.3% below 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 Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR sits among metro areas
San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR ranks 388 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 Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR has 690,810 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.
385. Brownsville-Harlingen, TX has an all-occupations median of $36,490 per year and 157,450 covered jobs. Its wage gap from San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR is $7,050.
386. McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX has an all-occupations median of $35,830 per year and 296,700 covered jobs. Its wage gap from San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR is $6,390.
387. Eagle Pass, TX has an all-occupations median of $35,560 per year and 18,820 covered jobs. Its wage gap from San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR is $6,120.
389. Ponce, PR has an all-occupations median of $26,940 per year and 63,500 covered jobs. Its wage gap from San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR is $2,500.
390. Aguadilla, PR has an all-occupations median of $26,480 per year and 48,810 covered jobs. Its wage gap from San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR is $2,960.
391. Arecibo, PR has an all-occupations median of $26,120 per year and 34,720 covered jobs. Its wage gap from San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR is $3,320.
The largest detailed occupations shown for San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR
The role list is sorted by the BLS employment estimate. It shows detailed occupations from the bounded source table for San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR. The first row, Retail Salespersons, has 27,950 estimated jobs. Its median is $22,780 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. Retail Salespersons has 27,950 estimated jobs in San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR. Its published median is $22,780 per year. Its location quotient is 1.61.
2. Security Guards has 22,420 estimated jobs in San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR. Its published median is $21,840 per year. Its location quotient is 3.93.
Role pay range
How published medians differ inside San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR
The detailed roles shown for San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR do not share one pay level. Managers, All Other has the highest published median in this bounded role set, at $83,450 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 $29,440 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. Managers, All Other has a published median of $83,450 per year in San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR. BLS lists 4,900 jobs. Its local share is 1.77 times the national share.
2. General and Operations Managers has a published median of $75,370 per year in San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR. BLS lists 5,690 jobs. Its local share is 0.37 times the national share.
3. Business Operations Specialists, All Other has a published median of $46,990 per year in San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR. BLS lists 7,980 jobs. Its local share is 1.65 times the national share.
Local share
Roles with a larger local share in San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR
Location quotient compares a role's share of jobs in San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR 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.
Security Guards has the highest published location quotient in this bounded set, at 3.93. The same row has 22,420 jobs and a median of $21,840 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. Security Guards has a location quotient of 3.93 in San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR. BLS lists 22,420 jobs and a median of $21,840 per year.
2. Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers has a location quotient of 3.62 in San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR. BLS lists 10,770 jobs and a median of $45,510 per year.
3. Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants has a location quotient of 2.98 in San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR. BLS lists 6,090 jobs and a median of $37,170 per year.
Separate price view
What the BEA price level adds for San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR
WageScope has no exact approved 2024 BEA price row for San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR. It does not use a nearby place. It does not copy a state value into a local row. The May 2025 BLS wage page stays useful without that extra source.
A missing BEA row means the page cannot show the national-price-dollar proxy. It does not mean local prices equal the U.S. level. It does not mean the area has low or high prices. The source is absent for this exact map key, so the answer stays absent.
You can still compare the same BLS wage metric with the U.S. row or with like area rows. Keep that as a nominal wage comparison. Add price context only when an exact, current, reviewed source row is available.
How to read survey care marks for San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR
The all-occupations employment RSE for San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR is 0%. The mean-wage RSE is 1%. 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 690,810 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 Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR 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 Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR 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 Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR 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 Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR's $29,440 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 Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR page does not say
The page does not say what one person in San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR 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 388 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. Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners has 21,530 estimated jobs in San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR. Its published median is $21,930 per year. Its location quotient is 2.19.
4. Cashiers has 18,010 estimated jobs in San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR. Its published median is $22,300 per year. Its location quotient is 1.31.
5. Fast Food and Counter Workers has 17,900 estimated jobs in San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR. Its published median is $22,130 per year. Its location quotient is 1.05.
6. Customer Service Representatives has 15,940 estimated jobs in San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR. Its published median is $26,520 per year. Its location quotient is 1.38.
7. Registered Nurses has 14,940 estimated jobs in San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR. Its published median is $41,980 per year. Its location quotient is 1.
8. Office Clerks, General has 14,400 estimated jobs in San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR. Its published median is $24,580 per year. Its location quotient is 1.31.
4. Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers has a published median of $45,510 per year in San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR. BLS lists 10,770 jobs. Its local share is 3.62 times the national share.
5. Accountants and Auditors has a published median of $44,470 per year in San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR. BLS lists 10,260 jobs. Its local share is 1.59 times the national share.
6. First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers has a published median of $44,030 per year in San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR. BLS lists 12,720 jobs. Its local share is 1.99 times the national share.
7. Registered Nurses has a published median of $41,980 per year in San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR. BLS lists 14,940 jobs. Its local share is 1 times the national share.
8. Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants has a published median of $37,170 per year in San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR. BLS lists 6,090 jobs. Its local share is 2.98 times the national share.
4. Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners has a location quotient of 2.19 in San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR. BLS lists 21,530 jobs and a median of $21,930 per year.
5. First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers has a location quotient of 1.99 in San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR. BLS lists 12,720 jobs and a median of $44,030 per year.
6. Managers, All Other has a location quotient of 1.77 in San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR. BLS lists 4,900 jobs and a median of $83,450 per year.
7. First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers has a location quotient of 1.7 in San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR. BLS lists 8,490 jobs and a median of $30,470 per year.
8. Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive has a location quotient of 1.67 in San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR. BLS lists 12,690 jobs and a median of $26,780 per year.
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