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Personal Care and Service Workers, All Other pay in Salinas, CA and San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Personal Care and Service Workers, All Other is $50,910 per year in Salinas, CA. It is $53,580 per year in San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX. Salinas, CA is 5.0% below San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX on the published median.
Both rows use SOC 39-9099 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 50 wage and salary jobs in Salinas, CA and Not published in San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX. 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