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Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents pay in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ and San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents is $167,890 per year in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ. It is $76,180 per year in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA. New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ is 120.4% above San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA on the published median.
Both rows use SOC 41-3031 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 59,450 wage and salary jobs in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ and 5,520 in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, 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.