2026 Edition · An annual reference on what work pays

Financial Managers

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metropolitan area. Estimated employment 34,480.

Data released May 2025 BLS OEWS · SOC 11-3031
Fig. 1 — The wage rule

Where you sit in the distribution

Drag the marker, or type a figure
$175,310 · 50th
$102,36010th
$136,10025th
$175,31050th
$251,43075th
$337,68090th

That is the medianhalf of financial managers in Los Angeles earn more.

Table 1 — Adjusted

$175,310 in Los Angeles buys what $154,400 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.

Fig. 2 — The ladder

What comes next

Median offered base pay by seniority for Financial Managers in Los Angeles, classified from job titles on visa filings.

Mid
$150,259
Senior
$171,058
Lead
$193,149
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$225,280$204,000110.4+32.2%
San Francisco$216,150$187,000115.6+21.1%
Los Angeles This page$175,310$154,400113.6
San Diego$174,210$155,700111.9+0.9%
Oxnard$169,900$153,700110.5−0.4%
Santa Cruz$165,800$150,900109.9−2.3%
Santa Maria$164,270$151,000108.8−2.2%
Santa Rosa$164,140$152,300107.8−1.3%

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

Fig. 3 — 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 15.4% over the five years to 2025. Adjusted for inflation it fell 2.8% — 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.
Career ladder
Seniority classified from job titles on the same visa filings; levels shown only with five or more filings each and a strictly rising progression.
Inflation
Real figures deflate by CPI-U annual averages (BLS, all items, US city average).
Employment
34,480 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
Occupation
SOC 11-3031, Financial Managers. Mapped to our taxonomy as financial-managers.

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