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Retail Salespersons

Urban Honolulu, HI metropolitan area. Estimated employment 12,810.

Data released May 2025 BLS OEWS · SOC 41-2031
Fig. 1 — The wage rule

Where you sit in the distribution

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$37,400 · 50th
$30,57010th
$34,42025th
$37,40050th
$43,59075th
$48,30090th

That is the medianhalf of retail salespersons in Urban Honolulu earn more.

Table 1 — Adjusted

$37,400 in Urban Honolulu buys what $33,700 buys across the country as a whole.

Urban Honolulu's regional price parity is 111.0 — 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 Hawaii

Adjusted figures apply each metro's regional price parity, so the columns are directly comparable.

Metro areaMedianAdjustedRPPvs. Urban Honolulu
Kahului$39,630$36,200109.4+7.5%
Urban Honolulu This page$37,400$33,700111.0

Price parity and difference against Urban Honolulu 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 26.1% over the five years to 2025. Adjusted for inflation it still rose 6.1% — 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
12,810 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
Occupation
SOC 41-2031, Retail Salespersons. Mapped to our taxonomy as retail-salespersons.

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