Graph and download economic data for Average Hourly Earnings of All Employees: Total Private in California (SMU06000000500000003) from Jan 2007 to May 2025 about earnings, hours, CA, private, employment, and USA.

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Average Hourly Earnings of All Employees: Information in California was 60.78000 $ per Hour in January of 2024, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, Average Hourly Earnings of All Employees: Information in California reached a record high of 62.48000 in January of 2023 and a record low of 33.76000 in January of 2009. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for Average Hourly Earnings of All Employees: Information in California - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on July of 2025.

In 2023, the average annual wage in California was ****** U.S. dollars, an increase from the year prior, when the average wage in the U.S. state was ******. The average annual wages are expected to rise in California, with the annual wage in 2027 estimated to reach over ******* U.S. dollars.

California Average Hourly Earnings: 18 years of historical data from 2007 to 2025.

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VITAL SIGNS INDICATOR Jobs by Wage Level (EQ1)

FULL MEASURE NAME Distribution of jobs by low-, middle-, and high-wage occupations

LAST UPDATED January 2019

DESCRIPTION Jobs by wage level refers to the distribution of jobs by low-, middle- and high-wage occupations. In the San Francisco Bay Area, low-wage occupations have a median hourly wage of less than 80% of the regional median wage; median wages for middle-wage occupations range from 80% to 120% of the regional median wage, and high-wage occupations have a median hourly wage above 120% of the regional median wage.

DATA SOURCE California Employment Development Department OES (2001-2017) http://www.labormarketinfo.edd.ca.gov/data/oes-employment-and-wages.html

American Community Survey (2001-2017) http://api.census.gov

CONTACT INFORMATION vitalsigns.info@bayareametro.gov

METHODOLOGY NOTES (across all datasets for this indicator) Jobs are determined to be low-, middle-, or high-wage based on the median hourly wage of their occupational classification in the most recent year. Low-wage jobs are those that pay below 80% of the regional median wage. Middle-wage jobs are those that pay between 80% and 120% of the regional median wage. High-wage jobs are those that pay above 120% of the regional median wage. Regional median hourly wages are estimated from the American Community Survey and are published on the Vital Signs Income indicator page. For the national context analysis, occupation wage classifications are unique to each metro area. A low-wage job in New York, for instance, may be a middle-wage job in Miami. For the Bay Area in 2017, the median hourly wage for low-wage occupations was less than $20.86 per hour. For middle-wage jobs, the median ranged from $20.86 to $31.30 per hour; and for high-wage jobs, the median wage was above $31.30 per hour.

Occupational employment and wage information comes from the Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) program. Regional and subregional data is published by the California Employment Development Department. Metro data is published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The OES program collects data on wage and salary workers in nonfarm establishments to produce employment and wage estimates for some 800 occupations. Data from non-incorporated self-employed persons are not collected, and are not included in these estimates. Wage estimates represent a three-year rolling average.

Due to changes in reporting during the analysis period, subregion data from the EDD OES have been aggregated to produce geographies that can be compared over time. West Bay is San Mateo, San Francisco, and Marin counties. North Bay is Sonoma, Solano and Napa counties. East Bay is Alameda and Contra Costa counties. South Bay is Santa Clara County from 2001-2004 and Santa Clara and San Benito counties from 2005-2017.

Due to changes in occupation classifications during the analysis period, all occupations have been reassigned to 2010 SOC codes. For pre-2009 reporting years, all employment in occupations that were split into two or more 2010 SOC occupations are assigned to the first 2010 SOC occupation listed in the crosswalk table provided by the Census Bureau. This method assumes these occupations always fall in the same wage category, and sensitivity analysis of this reassignment method shows this is true in most cases.

In order to use OES data for time series analysis, several steps were taken to handle missing wage or employment data. For some occupations, such as airline pilots and flight attendants, no wage information was provided and these were removed from the analysis. Other occupations did not record a median hourly wage (mostly due to irregular work hours) but did record an annual average wage. Nearly all these occupations were in education (i.e. teachers). In this case, a 2080 hour-work year was assumed and [annual average wage/2080] was used as a proxy for median income. Most of these occupations were classified as high-wage, thus dispelling concern of underestimating a median wage for a teaching occupation that requires less than 2080 hours of work a year (equivalent to 12 months fulltime). Finally, the OES has missing employment data for occupations across the time series. To make the employment data comparable between years, gaps in employment data for occupations are ‘filled-in’ using linear interpolation if there are at least two years of employment data found in OES. Occupations with less than two years of employment data were dropped from the analysis. Over 80% of interpolated cells represent missing employment data for just one year in the time series. While this interpolating technique may impact year-over-year comparisons, the long-term trends represented in the analysis generally are accurate.

Graph and download economic data for Average Hourly Earnings of All Employees: Leisure and Hospitality in California (SMU06000007000000003) from Jan 2007 to May 2025 about leisure, hospitality, earnings, hours, CA, employment, and USA.

Average Hourly Earnings of All Employees: Information in California was 65.57000 $ per Hour in April of 2025, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, Average Hourly Earnings of All Employees: Information in California reached a record high of 66.08000 in February of 2025 and a record low of 32.80000 in November of 2009. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for Average Hourly Earnings of All Employees: Information in California - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on July of 2025.

Average Hourly Earnings of All Employees: Financial Activities in California (DISCONTINUED) was 46.58538 $ per Hour in March of 2022, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, Average Hourly Earnings of All Employees: Financial Activities in California (DISCONTINUED) reached a record high of 47.16755 in November of 2021 and a record low of 29.60088 in February of 2010. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for Average Hourly Earnings of All Employees: Financial Activities in California (DISCONTINUED) - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on June of 2025.

Average Hourly Earnings of All Employees: Other Services in California was 34.29000 $ per Hour in January of 2024, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, Average Hourly Earnings of All Employees: Other Services in California reached a record high of 34.29000 in January of 2024 and a record low of 18.82000 in January of 2007. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for Average Hourly Earnings of All Employees: Other Services in California - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on July of 2025.

Graph and download economic data for Average Hourly Earnings of All Employees: Goods Producing in California (SMU06000000600000003) from Jan 2007 to May 2025 about earnings, hours, production, CA, goods, employment, and USA.

Average Hourly Earnings of All Employees: Manufacturing in California was 41.39000 $ per Hour in January of 2024, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, Average Hourly Earnings of All Employees: Manufacturing in California reached a record high of 41.39000 in January of 2024 and a record low of 24.65000 in January of 2007. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for Average Hourly Earnings of All Employees: Manufacturing in California - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on July of 2025.

Average Hourly Earnings of All Employees: Total Private in California was 40.69000 $ per Hour in April of 2025, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, Average Hourly Earnings of All Employees: Total Private in California reached a record high of 40.98000 in March of 2025 and a record low of 24.20000 in February of 2008. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for Average Hourly Earnings of All Employees: Total Private in California - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on July of 2025.

In 2024, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, registered nurses in California had the highest hourly wages with an hourly mean wage of ***** U.S. dollars, followed by Hawaii with ***** U.S. dollars, Oregon with ***** U.S. dollars, and Washington with ***** U.S. dollars. On the other hand, South Dakota was the state with the lowest hourly mean wages for registered nurses in 2024, with an hourly mean wage of ***** U.S. dollars. That same year, the national average was of ***** U.S. dollars.

This dataset represents the statewide average hourly wage of Department of Rehabilitation’s total successful closures in State Fiscal Years 2014 through 2023 by county.

In 2023, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the hourly mean wage of nurse practitioners in the United States stood at 61.78 U.S. dollars. With an hourly mean wage of 77.66 U.S. dollars, registered nurses in California had the highest wages, followed by Nevada and Washington. On the other hand, Tennessee had the lowest hourly mean wages for nurse practitioners in 2023.

The minimum wage per day guaranteed by law in Mexico was decreed to increase by approximately 12 percent between 2024 and 2025, reaching 278.8 Mexican pesos in 2025. The Northern Free Zone located near the northern border was the exception, where the minimum daily wage increased to 419.88 Mexican pesos. Education and income disparity The income distribution is entirely a new story than minimum wages, in fact, there are many factors that influence the level of salaries for Mexican workers. One of the main differences is by the number of schooling years, someone with more than 18 years of study earns on average double than employees with seven to nine years. Moreover, the area of study, while statistics and finance mean salaries, the highest wages by degree, are above 30,000 Mexican pesos per month, others such as performing arts and theology rank as the lowest paying degrees in Mexico.
Poverty still among the main problems
Despite one of the main reasons for minimum wage increases being moving people out from poverty conditions, poverty continues to be one of the main problems Mexican society faces. The number of people living under poverty conditions has decreased by 8.54 million inhabitants from 2014 to 2022, nonetheless, the figure is still higher than 46.5 million. The poverty rate varies among states, with Chiapas leading the ranking with 67.4 percent of the population under such conditions, while both Baja California and Baja California Sur recorded less than 14 percent.

California - Average Hourly Earnings of All Employees: Total Private in Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA (MSA) was 29.22000 $ per Hour in January of 2022, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, California - Average Hourly Earnings of All Employees: Total Private in Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA (MSA) reached a record high of 29.22000 in January of 2022 and a record low of 20.22000 in December of 2012. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for California - Average Hourly Earnings of All Employees: Total Private in Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA (MSA) - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on February of 2023.

Average Hourly Earnings of Production Employees: Manufacturing in California was 30.51000 $ per Hour in January of 2024, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, Average Hourly Earnings of Production Employees: Manufacturing in California reached a record high of 30.51000 in January of 2024 and a record low of 14.69000 in January of 2001. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for Average Hourly Earnings of Production Employees: Manufacturing in California - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on June of 2025.