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Counselors, All Other · SOC 21-1019

Counselors, All Other Salary in the San Jose Metro Area

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA metro area

Figures describe the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA metropolitan statistical area as defined by BLS/OMB — the whole multi-county metro region, not San Jose city limits.

Median annual wage$83,930
Median hourly wage$40.35

Counselors, All Other in the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA metro area earned a median of $83,930 per year ($40.35 per hour) as of the May 2025 BLS OEWS estimates. Pay ranged from $49,680 at the 10th percentile to $134,920 at the 90th. BLS estimates 550 people work in this occupation in the area.

Pay distribution

Half of Counselors, All Other in the San Jose metro area earn more than $83,930 per year, half earn less; the middle half earn between $56,020 and $134,920.

Wage percentiles (BLS OEWS)
Wage10th25thMedian75th90th
Annual$49,680$56,020$83,930$134,920$134,920
Hourly$23.89$26.93$40.35$64.87$64.87

A percentile is a cut point: 25% of workers in this occupation and area earn less than the 25th-percentile wage. The median is the 50th percentile — half earn less, half earn more.

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How this area compares

  • San Jose metro areathis metro area
    $83,930
  • Californiastate (CA)
    $48,850
  • United Statesnational
    $50,860

Bars span the 25th–75th percentile (the middle half of workers); the tick marks the median.

The median here is +72% vs California overall and +65% vs the U.S. median for this occupation.

Compare with other areas

Where this metro sits nationally

$34,420$58,723$83,027$107,330Toledo, OH — $34,420Yuba City, CA — $35,640Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI — $37,390Athens-Clarke County, GA — $39,950Ann Arbor, MI — $40,270Reno, NV — $40,450Duluth, MN-WI — $40,790Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL — $41,560Bakersfield-Delano, CA — $42,790Boulder, CO — $43,050Pittsburgh, PA — $43,100El Paso, TX — $43,320Tallahassee, FL — $43,720Gainesville, FL — $43,780McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX — $44,590Charleston, WV — $44,700Jacksonville, FL — $44,940Fresno, CA — $45,180Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD — $45,210Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV — $45,440Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN — $45,870Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL — $45,880Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ — $45,970Hammond, LA — $46,000Lake Charles, LA — $46,000Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA — $46,190Killeen-Temple, TX — $46,460Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY — $46,640Columbus, OH — $46,930Visalia, CA — $47,280Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH — $47,340Modesto, CA — $47,360Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI — $47,920Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA — $47,920San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA — $47,970Salinas, CA — $48,200St. Louis, MO-IL — $48,290Baton Rouge, LA — $48,460New Orleans-Metairie, LA — $48,620Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA — $48,620Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA — $48,830Alexandria, LA — $49,220Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN — $49,320Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux, LA — $49,390Memphis, TN-MS-AR — $49,600Monroe, LA — $49,740Slidell-Mandeville-Covington, LA — $51,200Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX — $51,260Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL — $51,540Corpus Christi, TX — $52,090Cleveland, OH — $52,140Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD — $52,300Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX — $52,340Jackson, TN — $52,880Johnson City, TN — $52,880Knoxville, TN — $52,880Raleigh-Cary, NC — $52,920Chattanooga, TN-GA — $53,110Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX — $54,240Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX — $54,450Lafayette, LA — $54,570Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI — $54,770San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA — $54,820Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA — $55,120Shreveport-Bossier City, LA — $55,970Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC — $56,350Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ — $56,690Durham-Chapel Hill, NC — $57,030Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV — $57,470Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH — $58,250San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX — $59,430Syracuse, NY — $59,990Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC — $60,010Tyler, TX — $60,180Vallejo, CA — $60,280Lexington Park, MD — $60,350Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA — $61,620Kansas City, MO-KS — $62,170Midland, TX — $62,990New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ — $63,300Burlington-South Burlington, VT — $64,280Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA — $64,500Lubbock, TX — $65,520Columbus, GA-AL — $65,540Portland-South Portland, ME — $66,140Colorado Springs, CO — $66,910Salt Lake City-Murray, UT — $69,780Madison, WI — $70,300Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV — $70,610Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA — $71,650Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA — $71,970Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA — $73,380Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO — $77,000Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA — $78,740Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA — $79,490San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA — $83,930San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA — $91,940Ogden, UT — $93,180Richmond, VA — $98,850Trenton-Princeton, NJ — $107,330

Each dot is one metro area with a published median — hover any dot for the name and figure. Metros without published estimates are not drawn.

The San Jose metro area has the 5th-highest published median for this occupation among the 100 metro areas where BLS publishes it. Higher medians often track higher living costs — this is a pay comparison, not a ranking of where the job is “best”.

Other metro areas in California

Metro areas in the same state with published May 2025 medians for counselors, all other, highest first. Areas without published estimates are not listed.

  • San Jose metro areathis page
    $83,930
  • San Luis Obispo metro area
    $91,940
  • Santa Maria metro area
    $61,620
  • Vallejo metro area
    $60,280
  • Santa Rosa metro area
    $55,120
  • San Francisco metro area
    $54,820
  • Los Angeles metro area
    $48,830

Bars span the 25th–75th percentile (the middle half of workers); the tick marks the median.

Keep exploring

Other occupations in the same SOC group with published medians here, largest employment first:

Substance Abuse, Behavioral Disorder, and Mental Health Counselors$72,550Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors$95,390Child, Family, and School Social Workers$87,600Social and Human Service Assistants$60,650Marriage and Family Therapists$95,110Community and Social Service Specialists, All Other$62,720

Highest-paying metro areas for counselors, all others · Highest-paying occupations in San Jose Metro

About this estimate

These figures are survey estimates from the BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program — modeled from employer reports collected over three years and benchmarked to May 2025. They describe what employers in this area currently pay across all industries, not what any individual worker will be offered.

Employment counts wage-and-salary jobs in the occupation (self-employed workers are excluded). Estimates carry sampling error; percentile wages are rounded by BLS. Some values are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality or quality — suppressed values appear here as “not published”, never as zero. Read the full methodology.

About this data. Estimates are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program, May 2025 release, retrieved from bls.gov/oes/tables.htm on July 24, 2026. OEWS estimates describe metropolitan/nonmetropolitan areas and states — not city limits — and are not designed for year-over-year comparisons. See BLS methodology, our plain-English methodology, and sources. CitySalaryData is independent and not affiliated with BLS.