The annual and hourly salary statistics of chief executives in Santa Barbara-Santa Maria-Goleta, California are shown in Table 1 and Table 2, respectively. The wage data of chief executives in Santa Barbara-Santa Maria-Goleta is based on the national compensation survey conducted by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics in May 2012 [1].
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Table 1 shows the average annual salary for chief executives in Santa Barbara-Santa Maria-Goleta, California in 5 percentile scales. The median (50th percentile) annual salary is $182,820. The average annual salary of the 25th percentile is $134,300. The average annual salary for the bottom 10 percent earners is $93,260.
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Table 2 shows the average hourly salary for chief executives in Santa Barbara-Santa Maria-Goleta, California. The median hourly salary is $87.89. The average hourly salary of the 25th percentile is $64.56. The average hourly salary for the bottom 10 percent is $44.84.
From Table 3 we note that with a median annual salary of $182,820, Santa Barbara-Santa Maria-Goleta is the second highest paying city for chief executives in state of California, following the highest paying city Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario (median annual salary of $185,910). Compared with Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, the median annual salary of chief executives in Santa Barbara-Santa Maria-Goleta is 1.7 percent (1.7%) lower.
From Table 4, take note that the median annual salary of chief executives in Santa Barbara-Santa Maria-Goleta is higher than that of both state of California and the United States. Specifically, the median salary of chief executives in Santa Barbara-Santa Maria-Goleta ($182,820) is 100.0 percent (100.0%) higher than that in California ($0) and 8.0 percent (8.0%) higher than that in the United States ($168,140).
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