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Región de la Costa Sur Central

The South Central Coast region is comprised of San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties.

Top Job Openings 2020-2030

High-Skill Occupations

  • General and Operations Managers:
    • 5,500 projected job openings, $103,500 average annual wage, 118 job advertisements.
  • Project Management Specialists and Business Operations Specialists, All Other8:
    • 4,790 projected job openings, $101,219 average annual wage, 32 job advertisements.
  • Registered Nurses:
    • 3,970 projected job openings, $129,405 average annual wage, 409 job advertisements.
  • Software Developers and Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers7:
    • 3,810 projected job openings, $139,386 average annual wage, 73 job advertisements.
  • Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education:
    • 2,680 projected job openings, $84,697 average annual wage, 24 job advertisements.
 

Middle-Skill Occupations

  • Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks:
    • 4,600 projected job openings, $51,565 average annual wage, 78 job advertisements.
  • Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers:
    • 3,270 projected job openings, $51,149 average annual wage, 59 job advertisements.
  • Medical Assistants:
    • 3,200 projected job openings, $46,587 average annual wage, 123 job advertisements.
  • Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary9:
    • 2,900 projected job openings, $40,521 average annual wage, 80 job advertisements.
  • Nursing Assistants:
    • 2,210 projected job openings, $40,247 average annual wage, 56 job advertisements.
 

Entry-Level Occupations

  • Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse:
    • 37,180 projected job openings, $34,904 average annual wage, 3 job advertisements.
  • Fast Food and Counter Workers:
    • 17,630 projected job openings, $34,967 average annual wage, 203 job advertisements.
  • Cashiers:
    • 15,460 projected job openings, $34,302 average annual wage, 90 job advertisements.
  • Home Health and Personal Care Aides6:
    • 14,440 projected job openings, $32,610 average annual wage, 172 job advertisements.
  • Waiters and Waitresses:
    • 12,020 projected job openings, $32,610 average annual wage, 152 job advertisements.

An image of the California South 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.