2026 Edition · An annual reference on what work pays

Recreation Workers

Napa, CA metropolitan area. Estimated employment 240.

Data released May 2025 BLS OEWS · SOC 39-9032
Fig. 1 — The wage rule

Where you sit in the distribution

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$42,670 · 50th
$35,13010th
$39,40025th
$42,67050th
$48,68075th
$59,18090th

That is the medianhalf of recreation workers in Napa earn more.

Table 1 — Adjusted

$42,670 in Napa buys what $37,900 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
San Jose$57,580$52,100110.4+37.5%
San Francisco$46,290$40,000115.6+5.6%
Napa This page$42,670$37,900112.6
San Diego$40,380$36,100111.9−4.8%
Yuba City$40,100$38,500104.2+1.5%
Santa Rosa$40,010$37,100107.8−2.1%
Vallejo$38,990$35,900108.5−5.2%
Oxnard$38,930$35,200110.5−7.1%

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 27.0% over the five years to 2025. Adjusted for inflation it still rose 6.9% — pay has outrun prices since 2021. 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
240 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
Occupation
SOC 39-9032, Recreation Workers. Mapped to our taxonomy as recreation-workers.

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