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Property Appraisers and Assessors pay in Charlottesville, VA and San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Property Appraisers and Assessors is $64,780 per year in Charlottesville, VA. It is $105,580 per year in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA. Charlottesville, VA is 38.6% below San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA on the published median.
Both rows use SOC 13-2020 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 30 wage and salary jobs in Charlottesville, VA and 650 in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, 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.
Evidence: bls-oews-may-2025 · Rule: same-soc-same-metric-pair · nominal-median-gap · employment-not-openings