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Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary

Vallejo, CA metropolitan area. Estimated employment 290.

Data released May 2025 BLS OEWS · SOC 11-9032
Fig. 1 — The wage rule

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$163,150 · 50th
$104,91010th
$134,17025th
$163,15050th
$173,05075th
$198,11090th

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

Table 1 — Adjusted

$163,150 in Vallejo buys what $150,400 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
San Jose$165,520$149,900110.4−0.3%
San Diego$163,200$145,900111.9−3.0%
Vallejo This page$163,150$150,400108.5
Visalia$163,130$163,40099.8+8.7%
Los Angeles$161,590$142,300113.6−5.4%
Salinas$161,590$148,200109.0−1.5%
Riverside$161,380$151,600106.4+0.8%
San Francisco$160,820$139,100115.6−7.5%

Price parity and difference against Vallejo 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 24.5% over the five years to 2025. Adjusted for inflation it still rose 4.8% — pay has outrun prices 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
290 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
Occupation
SOC 11-9032, Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary. Mapped to our taxonomy as education-administrators-kindergarten-through-secondary.

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