Nursing Assistants
Vallejo, CA metropolitan area. Estimated employment 940.
Where you sit in the distribution
That is the median — half of nursing assistants in Vallejo earn more.
$48,900 in Vallejo buys what $45,100 buys across the country as a whole.
Vallejo's regional price parity is 108.5 — 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. Vallejo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| San Jose | $56,840 | $51,500 | 110.4 | +14.2% |
| San Francisco | $56,080 | $48,500 | 115.6 | +7.6% |
| Napa | $50,370 | $44,800 | 112.6 | −0.7% |
| Santa Rosa | $49,240 | $45,700 | 107.8 | +1.3% |
| Vallejo This page | $48,900 | $45,100 | 108.5 | — |
| Salinas | $48,870 | $44,800 | 109.0 | −0.6% |
| San Diego | $48,070 | $43,000 | 111.9 | −4.7% |
| Santa Cruz | $47,940 | $43,600 | 109.9 | −3.2% |
Price parity and difference against Vallejo 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 30.5% over the five years to 2025. Adjusted for inflation it still rose 9.9% — 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
- 940 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
- Occupation
- SOC 31-1131, Nursing Assistants. Mapped to our taxonomy as nursing-assistants.
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.