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Pharmacists

Napa, CA metropolitan area. Estimated employment 180.

Data released May 2025 BLS OEWS · SOC 29-1051
Fig. 1 — The wage rule

Where you sit in the distribution

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$200,580 · 50th
$145,78010th
$169,16025th
$200,58050th
$217,38075th
$217,42090th

That is the medianhalf of pharmacists in Napa earn more.

Table 1 — Adjusted

$200,580 in Napa buys what $178,200 buys across the country as a whole.

Napa's regional price parity is 112.6 — 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.

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. Napa
Napa This page$200,580$178,200112.6
San Jose$199,040$180,300110.4+1.1%
San Francisco$177,410$153,500115.6−13.9%
San Luis Obispo$172,860$159,200108.6−10.7%
Sacramento$172,680$161,900106.7−9.2%
Hanford$171,900$169,200101.6−5.1%
Vallejo$170,870$157,500108.5−11.6%
Santa Rosa$170,570$158,300107.8−11.2%

Price parity and difference against Napa 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 24.2% over the four years to 2025. Adjusted for inflation it still rose 12.9% — 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
180 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
Occupation
SOC 29-1051, Pharmacists. Mapped to our taxonomy as pharmacists.

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