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Speech-Language Pathologists pay in Alaska and California
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Speech-Language Pathologists is $102,670 per year in Alaska. It is $118,970 per year in California. Alaska is 13.7% below California on the published median.
Both rows use SOC 29-1127 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 340 wage and salary jobs in Alaska and 16,930 in California. 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