Houston vs. Los Angeles
First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers. Median, spread and buying power, side by side.
Data released May 2025
BLS OEWS · SOC 43-1011
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 17.5% higher — but after local prices, Los Angeles still leads by 2.0%.
Houston's median $65,990 buys $66,900 at national prices (price parity 98.6); Los Angeles's $77,530 buys $68,300 (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 | 36,940 | 54,340 | +47.1% |
| 10th percentile | $45,100 | $51,110 | +13.3% |
| 25th percentile | $53,670 | $62,610 | +16.7% |
| Median | $65,990 | $77,530 | +17.5% |
| 75th percentile | $85,720 | $96,740 | +12.9% |
| 90th percentile | $105,670 | $119,080 | +12.7% |
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
- First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers in Houston · First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers in Los Angeles
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