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General and Operations Managers

Slidell-Mandeville-Covington, LA metropolitan area. Estimated employment 2,470.

Data released May 2025 BLS OEWS · SOC 11-1021
Fig. 1 — The wage rule

Where you sit in the distribution

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$102,450 · 50th
$50,50010th
$69,85025th
$102,45050th
$165,66075th
$226,86090th

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

Table 1 — Adjusted

$102,450 in Slidell buys what $110,500 buys across the country as a whole.

Slidell's regional price parity is 92.7 — well below the national average — the nominal figure understates local buying power considerably. Adjusted figures for other metros are in the nearby-metros table below.

Table 2 — Nearby metros

The same job, elsewhere in Louisiana

Adjusted figures apply each metro's regional price parity, so the columns are directly comparable.

Metro areaMedianAdjustedRPPvs. Slidell
Houma$107,200$126,00085.1+14.0%
Baton Rouge$107,140$118,00090.8+6.8%
New Orleans$105,110$113,50092.6+2.7%
Slidell This page$102,450$110,50092.7
Lake Charles$101,370$118,10085.9+6.9%
Lafayette$99,510$114,10087.2+3.3%
Shreveport$98,610$116,30084.8+5.3%
Alexandria$98,360$114,80085.7+3.9%

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

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.
Employment
2,470 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
Occupation
SOC 11-1021, General and Operations Managers. Mapped to our taxonomy as general-and-operations-managers.

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