Best jobs in San Juan, PR
The best-scoring occupations in the San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR metro area, ranked on local pay plus national growth and opportunity.
Wages here are local to San Juan, PR (OEWS May 2025). Projected growth and openings are national BLS projections — not a local forecast.
How this ranking is scored
score = .40·pay + .30·growth + .20·employment + .10·openings
Each factor is scaled to the strongest occupation on this list, then weighted and summed. Weights differ by list type. Full methodology.
Wages — OEWS May 2025 (metro)
Growth & openings — EP 2024–34 (national)
How San Juan, PR pay compares to the nation
Median vs U.S. median · scale ±10%
$80,280 vs $120,230 · -33.2%
$126,700 vs $96,870 · +30.8%
$132,790 vs $136,570 · -2.8%
$87,980 vs $123,860 · -29.0%
$141,670 vs $265,930 · -46.7%
$101,530 vs $107,310 · -5.4%
−10%U.S. MEDIAN+10%
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Occupation
MEDIAN, LOCAL
P25–P75
Growth
Employed
Open/yr
Score
Showing top 25 of 514 scored occupations — show all 514show top 25
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Occupation
MEDIAN, LOCAL
Growth
Score
135
$61,710
+1.9%
42
146
$26,780
-1.6%
40
223
$36,230
+3.7%
34
250
$36,160
+0.3%
32
293
$28,960
+3.1%
29
304
$38,590
+2.3%
28
305
$29,010
+6.3%
28
388
Electrical, Electronic, and Electromechanical Assemblers, Except Coil Winders, Tapers, and Finishers
$22,730
+4.6%
23
447
$28,720
-3.8%
19
464
$23,330
+2.0%
18
466
$28,700
-12.0%
17
471
$28,330
-4.3%
17
489
$21,980
+1.2%
16
492
$24,090
-12.1%
15
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No placeholder listings · nothing invented Growth and openings are national (BLS EP 2024–34) — state-level projections are not in this data pull, so the same national figure is used for every place and we say so rather than guess.