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Coaches and Scouts

San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA metropolitan area. Estimated employment 310.

Data released May 2025 BLS OEWS · SOC 27-2022
Fig. 1 — The wage rule

Where you sit in the distribution

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$49,540 · 50th
$36,28010th
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$49,54050th
$90,58075th
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That is the medianhalf of coaches and scouts in San Luis Obispo earn more.

Table 1 — Adjusted

$49,540 in San Luis Obispo buys what $45,600 buys across the country as a whole.

San Luis Obispo's regional price parity is 108.6 — 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.

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 Luis Obispo
San Jose$57,250$51,800110.4+13.7%
Salinas$54,940$50,400109.0+10.4%
San Francisco$54,770$47,400115.6+3.8%
Visalia$49,710$49,80099.8+9.2%
San Luis Obispo This page$49,540$45,600108.6
Napa$49,470$44,000112.6−3.7%
Santa Rosa$48,440$44,900107.8−1.5%
Santa Cruz$48,380$44,000109.9−3.5%

Price parity and difference against San Luis Obispo 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 3.7% over the five years to 2025. Adjusted for inflation it fell 12.8% — 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
310 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
Occupation
SOC 27-2022, Coaches and Scouts. Mapped to our taxonomy as coaches-and-scouts.

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