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Tire Repairers and Changers pay in Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA and Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Tire Repairers and Changers is $37,970 per year in Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA. It is $48,880 per year in Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA. Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA is 22.3% below Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA on the published median.
Both rows use SOC 49-3093 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 250 wage and salary jobs in Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA and 1,060 in Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA. 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.