Lawyers
San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA metropolitan area. Estimated employment 290.
Where you sit in the distribution
That is the median — half of lawyers in San Luis Obispo earn more.
$175,780 in San Luis Obispo buys what $161,900 buys across the country as a whole.
San Luis Obispo's regional price parity is 108.6 — 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.
The same job, elsewhere in California
Adjusted figures apply each metro's regional price parity, so the columns are directly comparable.
| Metro area | Median | Adjusted | RPP | vs. San Luis Obispo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| San Jose | $301,320 | $272,900 | 110.4 | +68.6% |
| San Francisco | $212,500 | $183,800 | 115.6 | +13.6% |
| Los Angeles | $194,410 | $171,200 | 113.6 | +5.8% |
| Oxnard | $185,520 | $167,800 | 110.5 | +3.7% |
| Santa Rosa | $181,560 | $168,400 | 107.8 | +4.1% |
| Sacramento | $178,540 | $167,400 | 106.7 | +3.4% |
| San Diego | $178,220 | $159,300 | 111.9 | −1.6% |
| San Luis Obispo This page | $175,780 | $161,900 | 108.6 | — |
Price parity and difference against San Luis Obispo are in the full table on wider screens.
Nominal against real
The same median, once as published and once restated in 2025 dollars.
Published pay rose 38.9% over the four years to 2025. Adjusted for inflation it still rose 16.9% — pay has outrun prices since 2021. The two lines meet at the right edge by construction, since 2025 is the base year.
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 23-1011, Lawyers. Mapped to our taxonomy as lawyers.
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.