Cooks, Short Order
Vallejo, CA metropolitan area. Estimated employment 240.
Where you sit in the distribution
That is the median — half of people in this occupation in Vallejo earn more.
$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.
The same job, elsewhere in California
Adjusted figures apply each metro's regional price parity, so the columns are directly comparable.
| Metro area | Median | Adjusted | RPP | vs. Vallejo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Rosa | $46,450 | $43,100 | 107.8 | +3.1% |
| San Jose | $45,990 | $41,600 | 110.4 | −0.4% |
| San Francisco | $45,790 | $39,600 | 115.6 | −5.3% |
| Vallejo This page | $45,360 | $41,800 | 108.5 | — |
| Napa | $43,930 | $39,000 | 112.6 | −6.7% |
| Los Angeles | $43,680 | $38,500 | 113.6 | −8.0% |
| Oxnard | $42,990 | $38,900 | 110.5 | −7.0% |
| Yuba City | $42,400 | $40,700 | 104.2 | −2.7% |
Price parity and difference against Vallejo are in the full table on wider screens.
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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