Houston vs. Los Angeles
First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers. Median, spread and buying power, side by side.
Data released May 2025
BLS OEWS · SOC 47-1011
Fig. 1 — Side by side
Both distributions, one scale
10th to 90th percentile, median struck in red
Table 1 — Adjusted
Los Angeles's median is 28.4% higher — but after local prices, Los Angeles still leads by 11.5%.
Houston's median $76,020 buys $77,100 at national prices (price parity 98.6); Los Angeles's $97,600 buys $85,900 (113.6).
Table 2 — The figures
Point by point
Published percentiles for both metros; the last column is Los Angeles against Houston.
| Houston | Los Angeles | Δ | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Employment | 24,570 | 19,690 | −19.9% |
| 10th percentile | $48,170 | $58,240 | +20.9% |
| 25th percentile | $59,220 | $75,390 | +27.3% |
| Median | $76,020 | $97,600 | +28.4% |
| 75th percentile | $93,260 | $127,740 | +37.0% |
| 90th percentile | $119,090 | $154,940 | +30.1% |
Sources
How this page was made
- Wage data
- Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 release. Public domain.
- Price parity
- Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Price Parities, 2024.
- Full pages
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