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General and Operations Managers

SOC 11-1021 · 2024-2034

Plan, direct, or coordinate the operations of public or private sector organizations, overseeing multiple departments or locations. Duties and responsibilities include formulating policies, managing daily operations, and planning the use of materials and human resources, but are too diverse and general in nature to be classified in any one functional area of management or administration, such as personnel, purchasing, or administrative services. Usually manage through subordinate supervisors. Excludes First-Line Supervisors.

How the U.S. Department of Labor describes this work. Published in English only.

What California expects of this job

Typical pay in California
$126,477per year
Projected openings
264,410
Projected change
+6.7%
Usually needs
Bachelor's degree

Bright Outlook — a U.S. Department of Labor designation
Numerous Job Openings

The Department's own designation, made from its national projections. It is not this project's assessment and it is not California's: every other figure on this page comes from California's projection, which can point the other way and for some occupations does.

Skills this work uses most

O*NET, the U.S. Department of Labor's occupation database, rates how important each of these is to this work, and they are listed in that order, most important first. The ratings themselves are not shown, because the data carries the number without the scale it was measured on. The names are as published, in English.

  1. Active Listening
  2. Monitoring
  3. Reading Comprehension
  4. Speaking
  5. Coordination
  6. Critical Thinking

Pay by region

RegionTypical pay in CaliforniaProjected openings
San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City MD (San Francisco and San Mateo Counties)$167,37018,400
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara MSA (San Benito and Santa Clara Counties)$165,49315,780
Oakland-Fremont-Berkeley MD (Alameda and Contra Costa Counties)$140,36617,520
San Rafael MD (Marin County)$135,3072,000
Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine MD (Orange County)$131,39427,760
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale MD (Los Angeles County)$129,10866,810
Napa MSA (Napa County)$127,2061,250
Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom MSA (El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, and Yolo Counties)$122,40815,750
Vallejo MSA (Solano County)$117,7232,060
Santa Rosa-Petaluma MSA (Sonoma County)$116,6333,890
Salinas MSA (Monterey County)$112,6612,180
Santa Maria-Santa Barbara MSA (Santa Barbara County)$112,0703,200
Santa Cruz-Watsonville MSA (Santa Cruz County)$110,1551,620
Stockton-Lodi MSA (San Joaquin County)$108,0473,520
Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario MSA (Riverside and San Bernardino Counties)$106,98821,680
San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles MSA (San Luis Obispo County)$105,4701,940
Eastern Sierra-Mother Lode Region (Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, Inyo, Mariposa, Mono, and Tuolumne Counties)$105,1851,020
Bakersfield-Delano MSA (Kern County)$104,4113,840
Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura MSA (Ventura County)$104,3705,130
Fresno MSA (Fresno and Madera Counties)$103,5555,600
North Valley-Northern Mountains Region (Colusa, Glenn, Lassen, Modoc, Nevada, Plumas, Sierra, Siskiyou, Tehama, and Trinity Counties)$103,4231,700
Hanford-Corcoran MSA (Kings County)$102,547500
Yuba City MSA (Sutter and Yuba Counties)$101,100780
Chico MSA (Butte County)$100,9581,060
Merced MSA (Merced County)$100,825940
Modesto MSA (Stanislaus County)$100,8252,590
North Coast Region (Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, and Mendocino Counties)$100,3471,580
Redding MSA (Shasta County)$100,0621,080
Visalia MSA (Tulare County)$99,8781,900
El Centro MSA (Imperial County)$94,816650
San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad MSA (San Diego County)Not reported23,790

What the pay actually ranges across

The lowest-paid tenth earn under
$61,383
A quarter earn under
$82,989
Half earn under
$126,477
Three quarters earn under
$189,354
The highest-paid tenth earn over
$298,739

A median is one point. These are the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics' 2026 figures for California, and they say how far apart the people doing this job actually are. Read them as the spread across everyone already in the work — not as a starting wage and not as a promise about where anyone lands.

Similar work

O*NET, the U.S. Department of Labor's occupation database, names these as occupations involving work similar to this one — its own reading of the job, not a grouping by code. They keep O*NET's order, and only those California publishes a projection for are shown.

OccupationTypical pay in CaliforniaProjected openingsProjected change
Facilities Managers$120,61019,690+8%
Chief Executives$222,26736,890+7.4%
Industrial Production Managers$134,84518,120+0.8%
Administrative Services Managers$110,71737,770+7.1%
First-Line Supervisors of Non-Retail Sales Workers$81,87920,300-4.9%
Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers$125,85729,110+11.9%

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