2026 Edition · An annual reference on what work pays

Postsecondary Teachers, All Other

San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA metropolitan area. Estimated employment 3,480.

Data released May 2025 BLS OEWS · SOC 25-1199
Fig. 1 — The wage rule

Where you sit in the distribution

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$101,820 · 50th
$53,51010th
$70,64025th
$101,82050th
$135,66075th
$175,52090th

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

Table 1 — Adjusted

$101,820 in San Diego buys what $91,000 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
Sacramento$135,060$126,600106.7+39.1%
Los Angeles$105,640$93,000113.6+2.2%
Modesto$104,890$100,800104.1+10.7%
San Diego This page$101,820$91,000111.9
Riverside$100,550$94,500106.4+3.8%
Fresno$99,480$97,400102.2+7.0%
San Jose$94,690$85,800110.4−5.8%
San Francisco$82,620$71,500115.6−21.5%

Price parity and difference against San Diego are in the full table on wider screens.

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.
Employment
3,480 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
Occupation
SOC 25-1199, Postsecondary Teachers, All Other. Mapped to our taxonomy as postsecondary-teachers-all-other.

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