SOC 39-5011 · Personal Care and Service Occupations · May 2025

How much do Barbers make in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA?

In the May 2025 Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics estimates, released May 15, 2026, the median annual wage for Barbers in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA is $37,680. The 10th percentile is $36,960 and the 90th percentile is $89,070. Employment is 470.

Median annual wage

$37,680

10th percentile
$36,960
25th percentile
$37,250
Median
$37,680
75th percentile
$44,710
90th percentile
$89,070
Mean
$47,660

Annual wage from the May 2025 OEWS estimates.

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A welder at a workshop bench. Photograph by ABDULIUMAR. Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

Percentile spread

For Barbers, the published 10th percentile is $36,960 and the 90th percentile is $89,070. The difference is $52,110, which is 138.3% of the median. Ten percent of measured wages fall below the 10th percentile and ten percent fall above the 90th. How to read a percentile.

The middle half of the distribution, from the 25th percentile at $37,250 to the 75th at $44,710, covers $7,460.

The mean annual wage is $47,660, which sits above the median of $37,680. Median and mean measure different points in the same distribution.

National and state comparison

The Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA median is 1.4% lower than the national median of $38,210 for Barbers. In 2024 national prices the local median is $33,179, which is 13.2% lower than that same national median. The national figure is already in national prices because the United States parity is 100.

It is 1.8% lower than the California median of $38,380.

Price-adjusted pay

The 2024 all-items regional price parity for Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA is 113.566, with the United States at 100. The Bureau of Economic Analysis released those parities on February 19, 2026. Dividing the May 2025 median of $37,680 by that parity and multiplying by 100 puts Barbers at $33,179 in national prices. The wage year and the price year are different. Compare this wage after prices.

Nearby metros

No other metropolitan area within 200 miles has a published annual median for Barbers in the May 2025 tables. A wage from farther away is not filled in. When a wage is not published.

Employment share

Barbers accounts for 0.01% of wage-and-salary employment in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA (470 of 6,271,560). Nationally the occupation is 0.01% of employment (15,000 of 155,495,730). The local share is 0.78 times the national share. That ratio is the location quotient computed from these May 2025 employment counts. It is not copied from the location-quotient column in the BLS bulk file.

Highest-paying jobs in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA · Barbers by metro · How to read these percentiles · Median and mean · When a wage is not published · How the figures are made · Compare this wage after prices

Questions this page answers

How much do Barbers make in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA?

In the May 2025 OEWS estimates, released May 15, 2026, the median annual wage for Barbers in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA is $37,680. The 10th percentile is $36,960 and the 90th percentile is $89,070. Employment is 470.

How does that compare with the national median for Barbers?

The local median is 1.4% lower than the national median of $38,210.

What is Barbers pay in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA after local prices?

The 2024 all-items regional price parity for Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA is 113.566, with the United States at 100. In those national prices, the May 2025 median of $37,680 is $33,179. The wage is May 2025 and the parity is 2024.