Capital Region

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The Capital region is comprised of Alpine, Colusa, El Dorado, Glenn, Placer, Sacramento, Sutter, Yolo, and Yuba counties.

Top Job Openings 2020-2030

High-Skill Occupations

  • Management Analysts:
    • 32,210 projected job openings, $88,678 median annual wage, 412 job ads.
  • General and Operations Managers:
    • 17,670 projected job openings, $116,840 median annual wage, 499 job ads.
  • Project Management Specialists and Business Operations Specialists, All Other:
    • 16,360 projected job openings, $106,972 median annual wage, 371 job ads.
  • Registered Nurses:
    • 15,860 projected job openings, $162,124 median annual wage, 1,030 job ads.
  • Accountants and Auditors:
    • 12,690 projected job openings, $86,544 median annual wage, 337 job ads.
 

Middle-Skill Occupations

  • Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers:
    • 16,350 projected job openings, $61,497 median annual wage, 563 job ads.
  • Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks:
    • 13,920 projected job openings, $53,293 median annual wage, 240 job ads.
  • Medical Assistants:
    • 10,280 projected job openings, $59,962 median annual wage, 225 job ads.
  • Computer User Support Specialists:
    • 8,920 projected job openings, $101,964 median annual wage, 422 job ads.
  • Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary:
    • 8,730 projected job openings, $40,837 median annual wage, 397 job ads.
 

Entry-Level Occupations

  • Home Health and Personal Care Aides:
    • 79,880 projected job openings, $33,280 median annual wage, 563 job ads.
  • Fast Food and Counter Workers:
    • 52,930 projected job openings, $35,999 median annual wage, 349 job ads.
  • Cashiers:
    • 48,520 projected job openings, $36,197 median annual wage, 223 job ads.
  • Stockers and Order Fillers: 
    • 35,070 projected job openings, $40,473 median annual wage, 188 job ads.
  • Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand:
    • 34,700 projected job openings, $41,659 median annual wage, 422 job ads.

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The Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) program has combined some detailed job categories from 2018 into broader categories or special groupings to improve data quality.

The total number of expected job openings from 2020 to 2030 includes workers leaving their jobs, people changing jobs, and new jobs being created. The top 10 jobs were chosen based on these total job openings.

Median wages are the middle point of what workers earn in the first quarter of 2024. Half of the workers earn less than the median wage, and half earn more. These wages do not include self-employed people or unpaid family workers. The median yearly wage has been rounded up to $33,280 to match state minimum wage laws as of January 1, 2024.

Information about online job ads comes from the Lightcast data series, which collects, studies, and organizes ads from many online job boards.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has split some job categories into separate groups. Here are a few examples:

  • The median wage for Software Developers and Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers (15-1256) is based only on Software Developers (15-1252). Job ad numbers (from June 5 to August 3, 2024) include ads for both Software Developers (15-1252) and Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers (15-1253).
  • The median wage for Project Management Specialists and Business Operations Specialists, All Other (13-1198) is based only on Project Management Specialists (13-1082). Job ad numbers (from June 5 to August 3, 2024) are for Project Management Specialists (13-1082).
  • The median wage for Teachers and Instructors, All Other, Except Substitute Teachers (25-3097) is based on Teaching and Instructors, All Other (25-3099). Job ad numbers (from June 5 to August 3, 2024) include ads for Tutors (25-3041) and Teaching and Instructors, All Other (25-3099).

For Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education (25-2021), the median wage in the North Coast Regional Planning Unit reflects wages in Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, and Mendocino counties.

The job ad numbers for Home Health and Personal Care Aides (31-1120) include ads for both Home Health Aides (31-1121) and Personal Care Aides (31-1122).

The job ad numbers for Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary (25-9045) include ads for Teaching Assistants in Preschool, Elementary, Middle, and High Schools (25-9042), Special Education Teaching Assistants (25-9043), and Teaching Assistants, All Other (25-9049).