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Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners

San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA metropolitan area. Estimated employment 10,400.

Data released May 2025 BLS OEWS · SOC 37-2012
Fig. 1 — The wage rule

Where you sit in the distribution

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$42,150 · 50th
$36,35010th
$37,12025th
$42,15050th
$47,82075th
$59,05090th

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

Table 1 — Adjusted

$42,150 in San Diego buys what $37,700 buys across the country as a whole.

San Diego's regional price parity is 111.9 — 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. San Diego
San Jose$48,200$43,700110.4+15.9%
San Francisco$46,590$40,300115.6+7.0%
Napa$44,260$39,300112.6+4.4%
Los Angeles$43,530$38,300113.6+1.7%
Vallejo$43,090$39,700108.5+5.4%
Santa Rosa$42,740$39,700107.8+5.3%
San Diego This page$42,150$37,700111.9
Yuba City$40,560$38,900104.2+3.3%

Price parity and difference against San Diego 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 36.4% over the five years to 2025. Adjusted for inflation it still rose 14.8% — pay has outrun prices 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
10,400 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
Occupation
SOC 37-2012, Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners. Mapped to our taxonomy as maids-and-housekeeping-cleaners.

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