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Substitute Teachers, Short-Term

Napa, CA metropolitan area. Estimated employment 300.

Data released May 2025 BLS OEWS · SOC 25-3031
Fig. 1 — The wage rule

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$76,520 · 50th
$46,31010th
$67,23025th
$76,52050th
$76,52075th
$96,25090th

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

Table 1 — Adjusted

$76,520 in Napa buys what $68,000 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
Napa This page$76,520$68,000112.6
San Jose$72,330$65,500110.4−3.7%
Bakersfield$66,480$65,900100.9−3.1%
Vallejo$66,000$60,800108.5−10.5%
Stockton$65,190$62,000105.1−8.8%
Salinas$63,970$58,700109.0−13.7%
Modesto$63,440$60,900104.1−10.4%
Santa Maria$62,310$57,300108.8−15.8%

Price parity and difference against Napa 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
300 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
Occupation
SOC 25-3031, Substitute Teachers, Short-Term. Mapped to our taxonomy as substitute-teachers-short-term.

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