2026 Edition · An annual reference on what work pays

Personal Care and Service Workers, All Other

Grants Pass, OR metropolitan area. Estimated employment 510.

Data released May 2025 BLS OEWS · SOC 39-9099
Fig. 1 — The wage rule

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$41,600 · 50th
$41,60010th
$41,60025th
$41,60050th
$41,60075th
$44,10090th

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

Table 1 — Adjusted

$41,600 in Grants Pass buys what $42,600 buys across the country as a whole.

Grants Pass's regional price parity is 97.8 — 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.

Table 2 — Nearby metros

The same job, elsewhere in Oregon

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

Metro areaMedianAdjustedRPPvs. Grants Pass
Albany$41,600$40,700102.1−4.3%
Bend$41,600$40,200103.6−5.6%
Corvallis$41,600$40,000104.0−6.0%
Eugene$41,600$41,000101.6−3.7%
Grants Pass This page$41,600$42,60097.8
Medford$41,600$41,000101.4−3.6%
Portland$41,600$39,500105.4−7.3%
Salem$41,600$40,100103.6−5.7%

Price parity and difference against Grants Pass 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 20.0% over the four years to 2025. Adjusted for inflation it still rose 9.1% — pay has outrun prices since 2022. 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
510 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
Occupation
SOC 39-9099, Personal Care and Service Workers, All Other. Mapped to our taxonomy as personal-care-and-service-workers-all-other.

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