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Región de Orange

The Orange region is comprised of Orange County.

Top Job Openings 2020-2030

High-Skill Occupations

  • General and Operations Managers:
    • 31,080 projected job openings, $120,484 average annual wage, 480 job advertisements.
  • Project Management Specialists and Business Operations Specialists, All Other8:
    • 28,260 projected job openings, $101,123 average annual wage, 233 job advertisements.
  • Software Developers and Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers7:
    • 23,420 projected job openings, $140,523 average annual wage, 697 job advertisements.
  • Registered Nurses:
    • 19,490 projected job openings, $137,462 average annual wage, 1,600 job advertisements.
  • Accountants and Auditors:
    • 18,410 projected job openings, $83,083 average annual wage, 303 job advertisements.
 

Middle-Skill Occupations

  • Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks:
    • 23,410 projected job openings, $51,111 average annual wage, 360 job advertisements.
  • Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers:
    • 13,380 projected job openings, $52,105 average annual wage, 241 job advertisements.
  • Medical Assistants:
    • 13,210 projected job openings, $40,220 average annual wage, 400 job advertisements.
  • Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary9:
    • 12,490 projected job openings, $45,049 average annual wage, 324 job advertisements.
  • Nursing Assistants:
    • 12,070 projected job openings, $40,844 average annual wage, 344 job advertisements.
 

Entry-Level Occupations

  • Fast Food and Counter Workers:
    • 97,630 projected job openings, $35,500 average annual wage, 803 job advertisements.
  • Home Health and Personal Care Aides6:
    • 75,100 projected job openings, $34,828 average annual wage, 464 job advertisements.
  • Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand: 
    • 64,050 projected job openings, $37,699 average annual wage, 757 job advertisements.
  • Cashiers:
    • 62,510 projected job openings, $34,283 average annual wage, 347 job advertisements.
  • Retail Salespersons:
    • 53,190 projected job openings, $35,462 average annual wage, 1,460 job advertisements.

An image of the California Orange 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.