LA leads every one of the 7 new metros on hiring depth, posting 170,730 listings across its top-10 cross-industry roles this quarter — 25.8% ahead of the next-largest new metro. Application Developer alone accounts for 29,183 of those listings, more than any single role in any of the other 6 metros in this release.
LA leads every one of the 7 new metros this quarter on hiring depth — 170,730 postings across its ten most-hired roles, 25.8% more than the next-largest new metro, Washington DC (135,736). Application Developer alone posted 29,183 times — more than any other new metro's single largest role; DC's Application Developer, 25,299, is the next-highest.
1. LA's smallest role is bigger than most metros' biggest. Attorney is LA's lowest-volume top-10 role at 10,553 postings — still larger than Attorney's entire market in any other new metro this quarter. LA's Attorney band: $129,465–$190,498 (1.47× P75/P25).
2. Registered Nurse: $42.23–$60.81/hr. The second-highest RN band of the 7 new metros, on 24,543 postings from 2,230 hiring companies.
3. Senior Engineer has converged: $139,117–$170,000 (1.22×). The market has largely settled on one price for this title.
4. Sales Representative: $44,720–$81,662 (1.83×). A real band, narrower than the widest Sales Rep spreads seen elsewhere in this release but still not a single number.
Application Developer $135.6K vs. BLS $133.1K (+1.9%); Registered Nurse $50.39/hr vs. $45.00/hr (+12.0%); Sales Representative $58.9K vs. $64.2K (−8.3%); Senior Engineer $153.6K vs. $136.0K (+12.9%); Attorney $160.0K vs. $159.7K (+0.2%). Several roles (Project Manager, Account Executive, Account Manager, Program Manager, Operations Manager) have no single BLS SOC equivalent.
WageScape/MarketTrak, advertised postings, Apr 1–Jun 30, 2026. 170,730 postings across LA's 10 highest-volume distinct roles (vague titles excluded, SOC-overlapping titles consolidated). Every role is a P25/P50/P75 band, never a lone median. Registered Nurse quoted per hour; other roles annual. Aggregates only; rows publish at n≥500.
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Source: WageScape/MarketTrak, mt_1q, advertised postings, Apr 1–Jun 30, 2026 (single quarter; no period-over-period claims). Sample: 170,730 postings across LA's 10 highest-volume distinct cross-industry roles (vague titles — Manager, Specialist, Driver, etc. — excluded; SOC-overlapping titles consolidated). Every role is a P25/P50/P75 band, never a lone median. Registered Nurse quoted per hour; all other roles quoted as annual salary. Pay is modeled from postings, aggregates only — no individual pay is exposed. Rows publish only at n≥500 (all 10 of LA's roles clear this by a wide margin; smallest is Attorney at 10,553).
WageScape / MarketTrak, Q2 2026 · BLS check: OEWS May 2025
