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Eligibility Interviewers, Government Programs

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metropolitan area. Estimated employment 15,160.

Data released May 2025 BLS OEWS · SOC 43-4061
Fig. 1 — The wage rule

Where you sit in the distribution

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$63,520 · 50th
$48,58010th
$61,30025th
$63,52050th
$63,52075th
$76,89090th

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

Table 1 — Adjusted

$63,520 in Los Angeles buys what $55,900 buys across the country as a whole.

Los Angeles's regional price parity is 113.6 — 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. Los Angeles
San Jose$97,900$88,700110.4+58.5%
San Francisco$82,960$71,800115.6+28.3%
Santa Rosa$80,330$74,500107.8+33.2%
Salinas$76,090$69,800109.0+24.8%
Vallejo$75,360$69,500108.5+24.2%
Santa Cruz$66,940$60,900109.9+8.9%
Santa Maria$66,220$60,900108.8+8.8%
Modesto$64,730$62,200104.1+11.2%

Price parity and difference against Los Angeles 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 5.3% over the five years to 2025. Adjusted for inflation it fell 11.4% — 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
15,160 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
Occupation
SOC 43-4061, Eligibility Interviewers, Government Programs. Mapped to our taxonomy as eligibility-interviewers-government-programs.

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