J07Annual · US$ per job per year, nominal (log scale)
Average annual pay per job by industry (QCEW, California private)
Average annual pay per job from QCEW. Pay is not tax paid, and industry is not occupation.
Not fucked
Better than its 2017–19 range · improvingJudged on “California · All private industries”. Lower average pay is bad (nominal dollars). Latest 97,204 vs 2017–19 range 65,545–71,134.
How verdicts work →California · Accommodation & food
36,516US$ per job per year (nominal) · 2025Los Angeles County · Accommodation
37,771US$ per job per year (nominal) · 2025California · All jobs incl. govern
96,963US$ per job per year (nominal) · 2025Dashed / hollow = preliminary or estimate
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What this is
Nominal dollars as published. Log scale so low and high pay are both readable.
- Unit
- US$ per job per year, nominal (log scale)
- Frequency
- Annual
- Geography
- California; Los Angeles County
- Coverage
- From 1 Jul 2016 · latest observation 1 Jul 2025
- Release
- Annual averages ~September of the following year; quarterly ~5-6 months after quarter end
- Typical lag
- ~9 months
- Source
- BLS QCEW annual averages · www.bls.gov ↗
- Vintage
- QCEW 2016 annual · QCEW 2017 annual · QCEW 2018 annual · QCEW 2019 annual · QCEW 2020 annual · QCEW 2021 annual · QCEW 2022 annual · QCEW 2023 annual · QCEW 2024 annual · QCEW 2025 annual
- Pipeline
- automated download
Every observation in this file
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