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 median — half 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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