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Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers pay in San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX and San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers is $95,500 per year in San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX. It is $177,400 per year in San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA. San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX is 46.2% below San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA on the published median.
Both rows use SOC 11-3071 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 1,670 wage and salary jobs in San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX and 1,760 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.