Human Resources Assistants, Except Payroll and Timekeeping
SOC 43-4161 · 2024-2034
Compile and keep personnel records. Record data for each employee, such as address, weekly earnings, absences, amount of sales or production, supervisory reports, and date of and reason for termination. May prepare reports for employment records, file employment records, or search employee files and furnish information to authorized persons.
How the U.S. Department of Labor describes this work. Published in English only.
Shrinking -3.5%
California projects this job will shrink over the next ten years. Fewer openings may mean a harder search.
What California expects of this job
- Typical pay in California
- $58,953per year
- Projected openings
- 11,530
- Projected change
- -3.5%
- Usually needs
- Associate's degree
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.
- Active Listening
- Reading Comprehension
- Speaking
- Writing
- Critical Thinking
- Social Perceptiveness
Pay by region
| Region | Typical pay in California | Projected openings |
|---|---|---|
| San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara MSA (San Benito and Santa Clara Counties) | $67,248 | 570 |
| San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City MD (San Francisco and San Mateo Counties) | $66,485 | 700 |
| Oakland-Fremont-Berkeley MD (Alameda and Contra Costa Counties) | $63,942 | 770 |
| Vallejo MSA (Solano County) | $63,315 | 90 |
| Santa Cruz-Watsonville MSA (Santa Cruz County) | $62,773 | 60 |
| San Rafael MD (Marin County) | $61,197 | 50 |
| San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles MSA (San Luis Obispo County) | $60,036 | 60 |
| Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario MSA (Riverside and San Bernardino Counties) | $59,290 | 1,410 |
| Santa Rosa-Petaluma MSA (Sonoma County) | $58,973 | 120 |
| Napa MSA (Napa County) | $58,585 | 50 |
| Stockton-Lodi MSA (San Joaquin County) | $58,289 | 260 |
| Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura MSA (Ventura County) | $58,217 | 200 |
| Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale MD (Los Angeles County) | $57,634 | 2,970 |
| Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom MSA (El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, and Yolo Counties) | $57,523 | 820 |
| Santa Maria-Santa Barbara MSA (Santa Barbara County) | $56,808 | 110 |
| San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad MSA (San Diego County) | $55,602 | 1,310 |
| Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine MD (Orange County) | $55,339 | 1,140 |
| Eastern Sierra-Mother Lode Region (Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, Inyo, Mariposa, Mono, and Tuolumne Counties) | $55,245 | 30 |
| Chico MSA (Butte County) | $55,051 | 60 |
| North Coast Region (Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, and Mendocino Counties) | $52,619 | 60 |
| Merced MSA (Merced County) | $52,160 | 60 |
| Modesto MSA (Stanislaus County) | $52,160 | 130 |
| North Valley-Northern Mountains Region (Colusa, Glenn, Lassen, Modoc, Nevada, Plumas, Sierra, Siskiyou, Tehama, and Trinity Counties) | $51,761 | 50 |
| Yuba City MSA (Sutter and Yuba Counties) | $51,485 | 40 |
| Bakersfield-Delano MSA (Kern County) | $51,240 | 250 |
| Visalia MSA (Tulare County) | $51,210 | 100 |
| Fresno MSA (Fresno and Madera Counties) | $50,566 | 290 |
| Redding MSA (Shasta County) | $49,259 | 30 |
| El Centro MSA (Imperial County) | $48,319 | 30 |
| Hanford-Corcoran MSA (Kings County) | $40,545 | 60 |
What the pay actually ranges across
- The lowest-paid tenth earn under
- $42,277
- A quarter earn under
- $49,617
- Half earn under
- $58,953
- Three quarters earn under
- $67,111
- The highest-paid tenth earn over
- $80,224
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.
| Occupation | Typical pay in California | Projected openings | Projected change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Human Resources Specialists | $84,901 | 97,470 | +10.4% |
| Human Resources Managers | $172,933 | 23,410 | +7.9% |
| Eligibility Interviewers, Government Programs | $65,023 | 28,150 | +5.4% |
| Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks | $66,886 | 17,950 | -13.8% |
| Compensation, Benefits, and Job Analysis Specialists | $92,944 | 11,130 | +6.6% |
| First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers | $79,426 | 146,890 | +1.9% |
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