The annual and hourly salary statistics of chief executives in Santa Cruz-Watsonville, California are shown in Table 1 and Table 2, respectively. The wage information of chief executives in Santa Cruz-Watsonville 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 Cruz-Watsonville, California in 5 percentile scales. The median (50th percentile) annual salary is $171,940. The average annual salary of the 25th percentile is $114,950. The average annual salary for the bottom 10 percent earners is $86,030.
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Table 2 shows the average hourly salary for chief executives in Santa Cruz-Watsonville, California. The median hourly salary is $82.66. The average hourly salary of the 25th percentile is $55.27. The average hourly salary for the bottom 10 percent is $41.36.
From Table 3 we note that the median annual salary of $171,940 in Santa Cruz-Watsonville is in the middle of salary range for chief executives in state of California. In comparison, the annual salary of chief executives in Santa Cruz-Watsonville is 7.5 percent (7.5%) lower than that in the highest paying Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario and 40.6 percent (40.6%) higher than that in the lowest paying Northern Mountains Region of California nonmetropolitan area.
From Table 4, note that the median annual salary of chief executives in Santa Cruz-Watsonville is higher than that of both state of California and the United States. Specifically, the median salary of chief executives in Santa Cruz-Watsonville ($171,940) is 100.0 percent (100.0%) higher than that in California ($0) and 2.2 percent (2.2%) higher than that in the United States ($168,140).
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