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Probation Officers and Correctional Treatment Specialists pay in New Orleans-Metairie, LA and San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Probation Officers and Correctional Treatment Specialists is $65,510 per year in New Orleans-Metairie, LA. It is $144,410 per year in San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA. New Orleans-Metairie, LA is 54.6% below San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA on the published median.
Both rows use SOC 21-1092 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 180 wage and salary jobs in New Orleans-Metairie, LA and 560 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.