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Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors pay in El Centro, CA and Greensboro-High Point, NC
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors is $141,760 per year in El Centro, CA. It is $56,230 per year in Greensboro-High Point, NC. El Centro, CA is 152.1% above Greensboro-High Point, NC on the published median.
Both rows use SOC 21-1012 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 200 wage and salary jobs in El Centro, CA and 660 in Greensboro-High Point, NC. 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.