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Automotive Glass Installers and Repairers pay in Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA and Providence-Warwick, RI-MA
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Automotive Glass Installers and Repairers is $46,160 per year in Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA. It is $65,190 per year in Providence-Warwick, RI-MA. Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA is 29.2% below Providence-Warwick, RI-MA on the published median.
Both rows use SOC 49-3022 and the same annual wage metric. Median means the middle of each area's published wage spread. It is not one worker's pay. The larger median is not proof that one place gives a better job or a better result. It is one wage fact from one source period.
BLS lists 50 wage and salary jobs in Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA and 60 in Providence-Warwick, RI-MA. Those are survey job counts, not open posts. Read pay, job scale, local share, and price level as separate facts before you make a choice.