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Security and Fire Alarm Systems Installers pay in Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA and San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Security and Fire Alarm Systems Installers is $52,000 per year in Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA. It is $81,980 per year in San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA. Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA is 36.6% below San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA on the published median.
Both rows use SOC 49-2098 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 Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA and 320 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.