How much do Switchboard Operators, Including Answering Service make in San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR?

Percentile spread

For Switchboard Operators, Including Answering Service, the published 10th percentile is $21,840 and the 90th percentile is $37,660. The difference is $15,820, which is 57.4% 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 $22,060 to the 75th at $30,340, covers $8,280.

The mean annual wage is $28,560, which sits above the median of $27,540. Median and mean measure different points in the same distribution.

National and state comparison

The San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR median is 28.7% lower than the national median of $38,630 for Switchboard Operators, Including Answering Service.

It is 10.3% higher than the Puerto Rico median of $24,960.

Price-adjusted pay

The Bureau of Economic Analysis has not published a 2024 all-items regional price parity for San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR, so this page does not show a price-adjusted wage.

Nearby metros

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

Employment share

Switchboard Operators, Including Answering Service accounts for 0.07% of wage-and-salary employment in San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR (480 of 690,810). Nationally the occupation is 0.02% of employment (34,280 of 155,495,730). The local share is 3.15 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.