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Computer Occupations, All Other

SOC 15-1299 · 2024-2034

All computer occupations not listed separately.

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

What California expects of this job

Typical pay in California
$138,203per year
Projected openings
59,320
Projected change
+11.1%
Usually needs
Bachelor's degree

Bright Outlook — a U.S. Department of Labor designation
Rapid Growth

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.

Pay by region

RegionTypical pay in CaliforniaProjected openings
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara MSA (San Benito and Santa Clara Counties)$172,63811,020
San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City MD (San Francisco and San Mateo Counties)$167,0849,900
Oakland-Fremont-Berkeley MD (Alameda and Contra Costa Counties)$134,4713,630
Salinas MSA (Monterey County)$129,712420
Santa Maria-Santa Barbara MSA (Santa Barbara County)$128,490600
San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad MSA (San Diego County)$124,8647,190
San Rafael MD (Marin County)$118,996170
Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom MSA (El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, and Yolo Counties)$112,0652,280
Bakersfield-Delano MSA (Kern County)$109,692920
Vallejo MSA (Solano County)$108,470190
Santa Cruz-Watsonville MSA (Santa Cruz County)$107,648130
Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura MSA (Ventura County)$106,6111,100
San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles MSA (San Luis Obispo County)$106,036100
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale MD (Los Angeles County)$104,99612,130
Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine MD (Orange County)$103,7915,670
Yuba City MSA (Sutter and Yuba Counties)$101,60870
Hanford-Corcoran MSA (Kings County)$98,51760
Napa MSA (Napa County)$96,92460
Santa Rosa-Petaluma MSA (Sonoma County)$95,846220
Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario MSA (Riverside and San Bernardino Counties)$94,8802,250
El Centro MSA (Imperial County)$93,11420
Chico MSA (Butte County)$88,93380
Fresno MSA (Fresno and Madera Counties)$87,813490
Stockton-Lodi MSA (San Joaquin County)$82,380320
Redding MSA (Shasta County)$82,35980
North Valley-Northern Mountains Region (Colusa, Glenn, Lassen, Modoc, Nevada, Plumas, Sierra, Siskiyou, Tehama, and Trinity Counties)$81,07590
Visalia MSA (Tulare County)$80,61390
Eastern Sierra-Mother Lode Region (Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, Inyo, Mariposa, Mono, and Tuolumne Counties)$75,27250
Merced MSA (Merced County)$73,77250
Modesto MSA (Stanislaus County)$73,772210
North Coast Region (Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, and Mendocino Counties)$70,75280

What the pay actually ranges across

The lowest-paid tenth earn under
$59,973
A quarter earn under
$89,795
Half earn under
$138,203
Three quarters earn under
$184,761
The highest-paid tenth earn over
$228,924

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.

Related work

Occupations in the same family as this one, ordered by projected openings. Related by how the job classification groups them, not by a claim that the skills transfer.

OccupationTypical pay in CaliforniaProjected openingsProjected change
Software Developers$179,292207,260+18.4%
Computer User Support Specialists$81,79744,720-2.2%
Computer Systems Analysts$131,29541,500+9.7%
Data Scientists$145,55440,180+37.1%
Web and Digital Interface Designers$139,92023,940+13.9%
Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers$132,34419,160+9.3%

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