Producers and Directors
San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA metropolitan area. Estimated employment 5,030.
Where you sit in the distribution
That is the median — half of producers and directors in San Francisco earn more.
$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.
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. San Francisco |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles | $131,600 | $115,900 | 113.6 | +2.6% |
| San Francisco This page | $130,640 | $113,000 | 115.6 | — |
| San Diego | $99,520 | $88,900 | 111.9 | −21.3% |
| Riverside | $97,360 | $91,500 | 106.4 | −19.1% |
| Bakersfield | $92,510 | $91,700 | 100.9 | −18.9% |
| Vallejo | $87,910 | $81,000 | 108.5 | −28.3% |
| Salinas | $87,900 | $80,600 | 109.0 | −28.7% |
| Fresno | $78,730 | $77,100 | 102.2 | −31.8% |
Price parity and difference against San Francisco are in the full table on wider screens.
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.
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.