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Community Health Workers

SOC 21-1094 · 2024-2034

Promote health within a community by assisting individuals to adopt healthy behaviors. Serve as an advocate for the health needs of individuals by assisting community residents in effectively communicating with healthcare providers or social service agencies. Act as liaison or advocate and implement programs that promote, maintain, and improve individual and overall community health. May deliver health-related preventive services such as blood pressure, glaucoma, and hearing screenings. May collect data to help identify community health needs.

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

What California expects of this job

Typical pay in California
$59,675per year
Projected openings
12,530
Projected change
+20.4%
Usually needs
High school diploma or equivalent

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.

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. Speaking
  2. Social Perceptiveness
  3. Active Listening
  4. Writing
  5. Reading Comprehension
  6. Service Orientation

Pay by region

RegionTypical pay in CaliforniaProjected openings
San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City MD (San Francisco and San Mateo Counties)$92,3701,300
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara MSA (San Benito and Santa Clara Counties)$75,302490
Vallejo MSA (Solano County)$67,39380
Oakland-Fremont-Berkeley MD (Alameda and Contra Costa Counties)$62,271800
Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine MD (Orange County)$62,138500
Yuba City MSA (Sutter and Yuba Counties)$61,89830
Santa Cruz-Watsonville MSA (Santa Cruz County)$61,75490
Visalia MSA (Tulare County)$61,620110
San Rafael MD (Marin County)$58,36960
Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura MSA (Ventura County)$57,851180
Salinas MSA (Monterey County)$57,584110
North Valley-Northern Mountains Region (Colusa, Glenn, Lassen, Modoc, Nevada, Plumas, Sierra, Siskiyou, Tehama, and Trinity Counties)$56,844110
Santa Rosa-Petaluma MSA (Sonoma County)$56,371110
Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom MSA (El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, and Yolo Counties)$56,289660
San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad MSA (San Diego County)$53,013820
San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles MSA (San Luis Obispo County)$52,992120
Stockton-Lodi MSA (San Joaquin County)$52,817110
Bakersfield-Delano MSA (Kern County)$52,366120
Fresno MSA (Fresno and Madera Counties)$52,129270
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale MD (Los Angeles County)$51,9983,560
Merced MSA (Merced County)$51,77030
Modesto MSA (Stanislaus County)$51,77070
Santa Maria-Santa Barbara MSA (Santa Barbara County)$51,66780
Eastern Sierra-Mother Lode Region (Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, Inyo, Mariposa, Mono, and Tuolumne Counties)$51,51340
North Coast Region (Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, and Mendocino Counties)$51,020170
Redding MSA (Shasta County)$50,95830
Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario MSA (Riverside and San Bernardino Counties)$50,568860
Chico MSA (Butte County)$44,84760
El Centro MSA (Imperial County)Not reported40

What the pay actually ranges across

The lowest-paid tenth earn under
$47,617
A quarter earn under
$51,441
Half earn under
$59,675
Three quarters earn under
$74,797
The highest-paid tenth earn over
$91,070

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
Health Education Specialists$65,39116,320+10.2%
Mental Health and Substance Abuse Social Workers$81,21122,620+20.1%
Healthcare Social Workers$92,17019,610+19.4%
Child, Family, and School Social Workers$67,02560,640+14.1%
Rehabilitation Counselors$45,72517,450+14.8%
Social and Human Service Assistants$52,52073,580+16.1%

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