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Interviewers, Except Eligibility and Loan pay in California and North Dakota
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Interviewers, Except Eligibility and Loan is $56,880 per year in California. It is $38,590 per year in North Dakota. California is 47.4% above North Dakota on the published median.
Both rows use SOC 43-4111 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 22,250 wage and salary jobs in California and 160 in North Dakota. 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