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Laundry and Dry-Cleaning Workers pay in New Orleans-Metairie, LA and San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Laundry and Dry-Cleaning Workers is $29,960 per year in New Orleans-Metairie, LA. It is $44,410 per year in San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA. New Orleans-Metairie, LA is 32.5% below San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA on the published median.
Both rows use SOC 51-6011 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 870 wage and salary jobs in New Orleans-Metairie, LA and 810 in San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, 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.