2026 Edition · An annual reference on what work pays

Actors

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metropolitan area. Estimated employment 24,800.

Data released May 2025 BLS OEWS · SOC 27-2011
Fig. 1 — The wage rule

Where you sit in the distribution

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$55.29 · 50th
$21.9710th
$25.1225th
$55.2950th
$143.2675th
$145.4790th

That is the medianhalf of actors in Los Angeles earn more.

Table 1 — Adjusted

$55.29 in Los Angeles buys what $48.69 buys across the country as a whole.

Los Angeles's regional price parity is 113.6 — well above the national average — a dollar here buys noticeably less than in the US as a whole. Adjusted figures for other metros are in the nearby-metros table below.

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.
Employment
24,800 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
Occupation
SOC 27-2011, Actors. Mapped to our taxonomy as actors.

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