The annual salary statistics of health educators in Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, California is shown in Table 1. The wage information of health educators in Santa Maria-Santa Barbara is based on the national compensation survey conducted by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics in 2022 and published in April 2023 [1].
| Percentile Bracket | Average Annual Salary |
|---|---|
| 10th Percentile Wage | $43,640 |
| 25th Percentile Wage | $45,550 |
| 50th Percentile Wage | $57,390 |
| 75th Percentile Wage | $71,550 |
| 90th Percentile Wage | $87,780 |
Table 1 shows the average annual salary for health educators in Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, California in 5 percentile scales. The average annual salary for the 90th percentile (the top 10 percent of the highest paid) is $87,780. The median (50th percentile) annual salary is $57,390. The average annual salary for the bottom 10 percent earners is $43,640.
The table and chart below show the trend of the median salary of health educators from 2012 to 2022.
| Year | Median Salary | Yearly Growth | 7-Year Growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | $57,390 | -7.79% | 18.98% |
| 2021 | $61,860 | -4.56% | - |
| 2020 | $64,680 | 3.11% | - |
| 2019 | $62,670 | 25.80% | - |
| 2015 | $46,500 | - | - |
From Table 3 we note that the median annual salary of $57,390 in Santa Maria-Santa Barbara is in the middle of salary range for health educators in state of California. In comparison, the annual salary of health educators in Santa Maria-Santa Barbara is 43.3 percent (43.3%) lower than that in the highest paying San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara and 40.3 percent (40.3%) higher than that in the lowest paying Northern Mountains Region of California nonmetropolitan area.