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Administrative Services Managers

San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA metropolitan area. Estimated employment 2,420.

Data released May 2025 BLS OEWS · SOC 11-3012
Fig. 1 — The wage rule

Where you sit in the distribution

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$137,820 · 50th
$83,55010th
$103,34025th
$137,82050th
$206,30075th
$297,08090th

That is the medianhalf of administrative services managers in San Jose earn more.

Table 1 — Adjusted

$137,820 in San Jose buys what $124,800 buys across the country as a whole.

San Jose's regional price parity is 110.4 — 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.

Table 2 — Nearby metros

The same job, elsewhere in California

Adjusted figures apply each metro's regional price parity, so the columns are directly comparable.

Metro areaMedianAdjustedRPPvs. San Jose
San Jose This page$137,820$124,800110.4
San Francisco$134,660$116,500115.6−6.7%
Los Angeles$124,560$109,700113.6−12.1%
Chico$123,530$122,100101.2−2.2%
San Diego$122,000$109,000111.9−12.6%
Oxnard$120,370$108,900110.5−12.7%
Santa Cruz$117,010$106,500109.9−14.7%
San Luis Obispo$114,250$105,200108.6−15.7%

Price parity and difference against San Jose are in the full table on wider screens.

Fig. 2 — Five-year trend

Nominal against real

The same median, once as published and once restated in 2025 dollars.

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Nominal, as published Real, in 2025 dollars US$ thousands

Published pay rose 10.2% over the four years to 2025. Adjusted for inflation it fell 7.2% — prices rose faster than pay since 2021. The two lines meet at the right edge by construction, since 2025 is the base year.

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.
Inflation
Real figures deflate by CPI-U annual averages (BLS, all items, US city average).
Employment
2,420 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
Occupation
SOC 11-3012, Administrative Services Managers. Mapped to our taxonomy as administrative-services-managers.

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