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Región de la Costa Norte Central

The North Central Coast region is comprised of Monterey, San Benito, and Santa Cruz counties.

Top Job Openings 2020-2030

High-Skill Occupations

  • Teachers and Instructors, All Other, Except Substitute Teachers10:
    • 4,790projected job openings, $103,591 average annual wage, 79 job advertisements.
  • General and Operations Managers:
    • 4,590 projected job openings, $105,828 average annual wage, 77 job advertisements.
  • Project Management Specialists and Business Operations Specialists, All Other8:
    • 3,240 projected job openings, $88,087 average annual wage, 10 job advertisements.
  • Registered Nurses:
    • 3,170 projected job openings, $136,513 average annual wage, 317 job advertisements.
  • Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education:
    • 2,810 projected job openings, $84,504 average annual wage, 39 job advertisements.
 

Middle-Skill Occupations

  • Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers:
    • 4,520 projected job openings, $52,630 average annual wage, 62 job advertisements.
  • Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks:
    • 4,140 projected job openings, $54,608 average annual wage, 64 job advertisements.
  • Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary9:
    • 2,930 projected job openings, $40,951 average annual wage, 78 job advertisements.
  • Medical Assistants:
    • 2,820 projected job openings, $46,356 average annual wage, 73 job advertisements.
  • Nursing Assistants:
    • 1,600 projected job openings, $42,621 average annual wage, 56 job advertisements.
 

Entry-Level Occupations

  • Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse:
    • 75,580 projected job openings, $35,724 average annual wage, 3 job advertisements.
  • Home Health and Personal Care Aides6:
    • 17,740 projected job openings, $32,610 average annual wage, 121 job advertisements.
  • Fast Food and Counter Workers:
    • 16,050 projected job openings, $35,742 average annual wage, 152 job advertisements.
  • Cashiers:
    • 14,310 projected job openings, $35,375 average annual wage, 69 job advertisements.
  • Waiters and Waitresses:
    • 9,590 projected job openings, $33,137 average annual wage, 169 job advertisements.

An image of the California North Central Coast region on a map of California

*The 2018-2028 employment projections do not include impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and response efforts. Employment projections are developed using models based on historical data, which in this set of projections cover the period through 2018; all input data therefore precede the pandemic. Employment projections are long-term projections intended to capture structural change in the economy, not cyclical fluctuations. As such, they are not intended to capture the impacts of the recession that began in February 2020. However, besides the immediate recessionary impacts, the pandemic may cause new structural changes to the economy. Subsequent employment projections will incorporate new information on economic structural changes as it becomes available.

**Wages for Personal Care Aides are taken from the Home Health and Personal Care Aides occupation.

***Wages for Combined Food Preparation and Serving Workers, Including Fast Food are taken from the Food Preparation Workers occupation.