Food Preparation Workers
Prescott Valley-Prescott, AZ metropolitan area. Estimated employment 360.
Where you sit in the distribution
That is the median — half of food preparation workers in Prescott Valley earn more.
$35,090 in Prescott Valley buys what $35,700 buys across the country as a whole.
Prescott Valley's regional price parity is 98.3 — below the national average, so a dollar here goes further than the nominal figure suggests. Adjusted figures for other metros are in the nearby-metros table below.
The same job, elsewhere in Arizona
Adjusted figures apply each metro's regional price parity, so the columns are directly comparable.
| Metro area | Median | Adjusted | RPP | vs. Prescott Valley |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flagstaff | $37,710 | $37,600 | 100.3 | +5.2% |
| Phoenix | $37,580 | $36,400 | 103.3 | +1.8% |
| Yuma | $35,390 | $38,200 | 92.7 | +6.9% |
| Tucson | $35,260 | $36,400 | 96.9 | +1.9% |
| Lake Havasu City | $35,180 | $37,400 | 94.1 | +4.7% |
| Prescott Valley This page | $35,090 | $35,700 | 98.3 | — |
| Sierra Vista | $33,610 | $37,700 | 89.2 | +5.5% |
Price parity and difference against Prescott Valley 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
- 360 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
- Occupation
- SOC 35-2021, Food Preparation Workers. Mapped to our taxonomy as food-preparation-workers.
Percentiles are reported exactly as released and are never interpolated between published values. We take no payment from employers, recruiters or anyone else for how any figure is presented.