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Education Administrators, All Other pay in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN and Visalia, CA
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Education Administrators, All Other is $75,450 per year in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN. It is $157,490 per year in Visalia, CA. Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN is 52.1% below Visalia, CA on the published median.
Both rows use SOC 11-9039 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 1,600 wage and salary jobs in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN and 80 in Visalia, CA. 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.
Evidence: bls-oews-may-2025 · Rule: same-soc-same-metric-pair · nominal-median-gap · employment-not-openings