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title: "Average Salary in Los Angeles, CA"
description: "Mean $77,270, median $55,850 in the Los Angeles metro area (BLS OEWS May 2025), with prices and top jobs."
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last-updated: "2026-10-15T08:19:32.066Z"
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# Average salary in Los Angeles, CA

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metropolitan statistical area. Mean annual wage $77,270, median $55,850 (US: $69,770 / $50,980), BLS OEWS May 2025, 6,271,560 jobs. Median at national-average prices: $49,180.

| Percentile | Annual wage |
| --- | --- |
| 10th | $35,870 |
| 25th | $39,320 |
| 50th | $55,850 |
| 75th | $93,740 |
| 90th | $141,370 |

| Price level (BEA RPP 2024, US = 100) | Index |
| --- | --- |
| All items | 113.6 |
| Housing (rents) | 170.4 |
| Goods | 106.6 |
| Utilities | 158.6 |
| Other services | 104.4 |

## Highest-paying jobs (mean annual wage)

- [Allergist and Immunologist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/allergist-and-immunologist): $227,680
- [IT Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/it-manager): $208,290
- [Financial Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/financial-manager): $204,650
- [Pediatrician, General](https://nuecareer.com/careers/pediatrician-general): $201,090
- [Nurse Midwife](https://nuecareer.com/careers/nurse-midwife): $198,370
- [Architectural and Engineering Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/architectural-and-engineering-manager): $197,390
- [Podiatrist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/podiatrist): $196,370
- [Natural Sciences Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/natural-sciences-manager): $196,290
- [Family Medicine Physician](https://nuecareer.com/careers/family-medicine-physician): $196,000
- [Marketing Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/marketing-manager): $193,400

Occupation pay is the OEWS May 2025 metro mean as published in the DOL OFLC 2026–27 wage file (metro-level estimates only).

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This bank includes information from the O\*NET 31.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). O\*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. NueCareer has transformed the data by joining it to BLS wage and projection data and deriving facet, personality-fit and AI-resilience scores. BLS and BEA data are public domain (17 U.S.C. §105).

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