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Entertainers and Performers, Sports and Related Workers, All Other pay in New Orleans-Metairie, LA and Omaha, NE-IA
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Entertainers and Performers, Sports and Related Workers, All Other is $37.26 per hour in New Orleans-Metairie, LA. It is $15.33 per hour in Omaha, NE-IA. New Orleans-Metairie, LA is 143.1% above Omaha, NE-IA on the published median.
Both rows use SOC 27-2099 and the same hourly 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 560 wage and salary jobs in New Orleans-Metairie, LA and 30 in Omaha, NE-IA. 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.