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Cooks, Short Order

Vallejo, CA metropolitan area. Estimated employment 240.

Data released May 2025 BLS OEWS · SOC 35-2015
Fig. 1 — The wage rule

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$45,360 · 50th
$37,24010th
$38,61025th
$45,36050th
$47,19075th
$49,81090th

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

Table 1 — Adjusted

$45,360 in Vallejo buys what $41,800 buys across the country as a whole.

Vallejo's regional price parity is 108.5 — 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. Vallejo
Santa Rosa$46,450$43,100107.8+3.1%
San Jose$45,990$41,600110.4−0.4%
San Francisco$45,790$39,600115.6−5.3%
Vallejo This page$45,360$41,800108.5
Napa$43,930$39,000112.6−6.7%
Los Angeles$43,680$38,500113.6−8.0%
Oxnard$42,990$38,900110.5−7.0%
Yuba City$42,400$40,700104.2−2.7%

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

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
240 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
Occupation
SOC 35-2015, Cooks, Short Order. Mapped to our taxonomy as cooks-short-order.

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