California · NAICS 523 · Annual, 2025

Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities in California

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 523 in California, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities (NAICS 523) employed about 102,700 people in California across roughly 17,347 establishments, with average annual pay of $362,000.

Employment in Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities in California grew 9.8% from 2020 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 273.4% above the all-industries average in California. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 102,700. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for California are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 102,700Employment, 2025
  • 17,347Establishments
  • $362,000Avg. annual pay
  • 0.6%Share of California jobs
  • 0.79Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities in California, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 83,600 to 102,700.050K100K150K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 83,600; 2005 86,300; 2006 89,200; 2007 88,300; 2008 88,500; 2009 81,800; 2010 79,100; 2011 77,500; 2012 77,900; 2013 85,700; 2014 88,000; 2015 89,400; 2016 90,900; 2017 91,900; 2018 94,100; 2019 94,500; 2020 93,500; 2021 93,700; 2022 97,100; 2023 102,100; 2024 102,700; 2025 102,700.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
2025102,71417,347$362,000 0.0%pub.
2024102,71216,627$335,203 0.6%pub.
2023102,12816,377$311,409 5.1%pub.
202297,14415,893$319,768 3.7%pub.
202193,67215,494$324,395 0.2%est. · 1.00
202093,52315,087$276,666 1.1%est. · 1.00
201994,51315,011$261,553 0.4%est. · 1.00
201894,08614,564$254,936 2.4%est. · 1.00
201791,90813,264$252,267 1.1%est. · 1.00
201690,88312,537$230,783 1.7%est. · 1.00

† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

The full history from 2004 and quarterly values are available with a free account.

Where these numbers come from

Reading these figures

The figures on this page come from one named vintage, stated below, and are annual values for all ownerships combined. Where QCEW withheld a value, the marked figure is an estimate that DTG produced under the constraints of the published record; suppression is a property of QCEW, not of DTG, and a withheld value is marked rather than silently omitted. Two things DTG itself holds back, and says so where it does: an estimate that cannot be given a reliability score is not shown, and average pay is not shown where fewer than three jobs are reported. The row is marked withheld, with the reason in a note beneath the table. The mark is on every row that carries a value: the headline, the yearly history, the subsectors and the other states. An estimated value that rounds below one is shown as less than one, not as zero. Quarterly figures, county figures and projected years are in the app.

How this figure was built

Employment is the average of the three monthly counts in each quarter, averaged across the year, and establishments are averaged across the year the same way. Average annual pay is the year’s total wages divided by that average employment. Each of these is DTG’s value: QCEW’s published figure where QCEW disclosed it, and DTG’s estimate, marked, where it did not. How withheld values are estimated, and what the reliability score beside a figure means, are described on the industry data and disclosure and provenance pages.

Estimated by Data Tactical Group from BLS QCEW, with CES/SAE and projection inputs described in the methodology. Method: Disclosure, Industry.

Notes

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Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities in California, quarterly, at full depth

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