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Speech-Language Pathologists pay in Cape Girardeau, MO-IL and El Centro, CA
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Speech-Language Pathologists is $97,900 per year in Cape Girardeau, MO-IL. It is $133,760 per year in El Centro, CA. Cape Girardeau, MO-IL is 26.8% below El Centro, CA 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 80 wage and salary jobs in Cape Girardeau, MO-IL and 70 in El Centro, 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