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Producers and Directors

San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA metropolitan area. Estimated employment 5,030.

Data released May 2025 BLS OEWS · SOC 27-2012
Fig. 1 — The wage rule

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$130,640 · 50th
$71,67010th
$96,17025th
$130,64050th
$187,99075th
$288,30090th

That is the medianhalf of producers and directors in San Francisco earn more.

Table 1 — Adjusted

$130,640 in San Francisco buys what $113,000 buys across the country as a whole.

San Francisco's regional price parity is 115.6 — 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. San Francisco
Los Angeles$131,600$115,900113.6+2.6%
San Francisco This page$130,640$113,000115.6
San Diego$99,520$88,900111.9−21.3%
Riverside$97,360$91,500106.4−19.1%
Bakersfield$92,510$91,700100.9−18.9%
Vallejo$87,910$81,000108.5−28.3%
Salinas$87,900$80,600109.0−28.7%
Fresno$78,730$77,100102.2−31.8%

Price parity and difference against San Francisco 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
5,030 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
Occupation
SOC 27-2012, Producers and Directors. Mapped to our taxonomy as producers-and-directors.

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