How much do Paving, Surfacing, and Tamping Equipment Operators make in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA?

Percentile spread

For Paving, Surfacing, and Tamping Equipment Operators, the published 10th percentile is $62,260 and the 90th percentile is $149,420. The difference is $87,160, which is 83.4% 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 $80,530 to the 75th at $124,720, covers $44,190.

The mean annual wage is $105,680, which sits above the median of $104,530. Median and mean measure different points in the same distribution.

National and state comparison

The San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA median is 96% higher than the national median of $53,340 for Paving, Surfacing, and Tamping Equipment Operators. In 2024 national prices the local median is $90,414, which is 69.5% higher than that same national median. The national figure is already in national prices because the United States parity is 100.

It is 25.7% higher than the California median of $83,130.

Price-adjusted pay

The 2024 all-items regional price parity for San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA is 115.613, with the United States at 100. The Bureau of Economic Analysis released those parities on February 19, 2026. Dividing the May 2025 median of $104,530 by that parity and multiplying by 100 puts Paving, Surfacing, and Tamping Equipment Operators at $90,414 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 Paving, Surfacing, and Tamping Equipment Operators in the May 2025 tables. A wage from farther away is not filled in. When a wage is not published.

Employment share

Paving, Surfacing, and Tamping Equipment Operators accounts for 0.01% of wage-and-salary employment in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA (260 of 2,373,920). Nationally the occupation is 0.03% of employment (41,820 of 155,495,730). The local share is 0.41 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.