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Amusement and Recreation Attendants

Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA metropolitan area. Estimated employment 760.

Data released May 2025 BLS OEWS · SOC 39-3091
Fig. 1 — The wage rule

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$37,760 · 50th
$35,29010th
$36,65025th
$37,76050th
$39,71075th
$43,76090th

That is the medianhalf of people in this occupation in Santa Rosa earn more.

Table 1 — Adjusted

$37,760 in Santa Rosa buys what $35,000 buys across the country as a whole.

Santa Rosa's regional price parity is 107.8 — 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. Santa Rosa
San Jose$42,850$38,800110.4+10.8%
San Francisco$40,140$34,700115.6−0.9%
Vallejo$38,580$35,600108.5+1.5%
Napa$37,820$33,600112.6−4.1%
Santa Rosa This page$37,760$35,000107.8
Los Angeles$37,630$33,100113.6−5.4%
Santa Cruz$37,150$33,800109.9−3.5%
San Diego$36,510$32,600111.9−6.9%

Price parity and difference against Santa Rosa 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 19.5% over the five years to 2025. Adjusted for inflation it is roughly flat — people in this occupation in Santa Rosa earn about what they earned in 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
760 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
Occupation
SOC 39-3091, Amusement and Recreation Attendants. Mapped to our taxonomy as amusement-and-recreation-attendants.

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