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Electricians

SOC 47-2111 · 2024-2034

Install, maintain, and repair electrical wiring, equipment, and fixtures. Ensure that work is in accordance with relevant codes. May install or service street lights, intercom systems, or electrical control systems.

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

What California expects of this job

Typical pay in California
$78,223per year
Projected openings
86,460
Projected change
+14.9%
Usually needs
High school diploma or equivalent

Bright Outlook — a U.S. Department of Labor designation
Rapid Growth · 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. Troubleshooting
  2. Repairing
  3. Speaking
  4. Active Listening
  5. Critical Thinking
  6. Judgment and Decision Making

Pay by region

RegionTypical pay in CaliforniaProjected openings
San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City MD (San Francisco and San Mateo Counties)$110,3503,300
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara MSA (San Benito and Santa Clara Counties)$97,8136,710
Oakland-Fremont-Berkeley MD (Alameda and Contra Costa Counties)$91,8046,780
San Rafael MD (Marin County)$83,714530
Napa MSA (Napa County)$83,288300
San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles MSA (San Luis Obispo County)$82,424610
Vallejo MSA (Solano County)$82,321760
Santa Rosa-Petaluma MSA (Sonoma County)$82,0431,200
North Coast Region (Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, and Mendocino Counties)$81,528300
Salinas MSA (Monterey County)$80,179500
Eastern Sierra-Mother Lode Region (Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, Inyo, Mariposa, Mono, and Tuolumne Counties)$79,685270
Santa Cruz-Watsonville MSA (Santa Cruz County)$79,202420
Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine MD (Orange County)$78,3609,890
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale MD (Los Angeles County)$78,36015,160
Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom MSA (El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, and Yolo Counties)$78,0076,710
Santa Maria-Santa Barbara MSA (Santa Barbara County)$78,007640
North Valley-Northern Mountains Region (Colusa, Glenn, Lassen, Modoc, Nevada, Plumas, Sierra, Siskiyou, Tehama, and Trinity Counties)$77,997530
San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad MSA (San Diego County)$77,8638,610
El Centro MSA (Imperial County)$77,802180
Bakersfield-Delano MSA (Kern County)$77,5241,590
Stockton-Lodi MSA (San Joaquin County)$76,9991,490
Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario MSA (Riverside and San Bernardino Counties)$76,1449,120
Yuba City MSA (Sutter and Yuba Counties)$74,796280
Chico MSA (Butte County)$74,755380
Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura MSA (Ventura County)$74,3331,510
Redding MSA (Shasta County)$73,931380
Visalia MSA (Tulare County)$73,488740
Fresno MSA (Fresno and Madera Counties)$70,4212,500
Hanford-Corcoran MSA (Kings County)$70,380230
Merced MSA (Merced County)$66,365170
Modesto MSA (Stanislaus County)$66,3651,020

What the pay actually ranges across

The lowest-paid tenth earn under
$48,068
A quarter earn under
$60,886
Half earn under
$78,223
Three quarters earn under
$105,790
The highest-paid tenth earn over
$144,142

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
Lighting Technicians$96,7032,4900%
Helpers--Electricians$53,4913,430+3.1%
Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters$74,80348,620+8.6%
Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers$132,6897,690+7.8%
Electrical and Electronics Installers and Repairers, Transportation Equipment$87,2181,1900%
Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Powerhouse, Substation, and Relay$124,9561,3200%

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