California · SOC 21-0000 · Annual, 2025
Community and social service occupations in California
Employment and average annual wage for SOC 21-0000 in California, 2004–2025, from DTG's OEWS-based estimates.
In 2025, about 404,600 people in California worked in community and social service occupations (SOC 21-0000), with an average annual wage of $84,460.
Employment in community and social service occupations in California grew 35.2% from 2020 to 2025. This occupation group is 1.3× as concentrated in California as in the nation as a whole (location quotient 1.31). Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 404,600. Quarterly values, full occupation 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.
- 404,600Employment, 2025
- $84,460Mean annual wage
- 2.2%Share of California jobs
- 1.31Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 171,000; 2005 172,600; 2006 174,800; 2007 181,800; 2008 184,400; 2009 183,800; 2010 182,700; 2011 183,300; 2012 185,700; 2013 223,200; 2014 230,200; 2015 238,800; 2016 249,500; 2017 262,900; 2018 277,300; 2019 299,500; 2020 299,300; 2021 312,500; 2022 334,800; 2023 360,500; 2024 389,000; 2025 404,600.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Mean annual wage | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 404,629 | $84,462 | 4.0% |
| 2024 | 389,031 | $82,842 | 7.9% |
| 2023 | 360,489 | $77,984 | 7.7% |
| 2022 | 334,761 | $76,425 | 7.1% |
| 2021 | 312,469 | $74,504 | 4.4% |
| 2020 | 299,283 | $72,461 | 0.1% |
| 2019 | 299,521 | $65,942 | 8.0% |
| 2018 | 277,307 | $62,671 | 5.5% |
| 2017 | 262,869 | $59,421 | 5.3% |
| 2016 | 249,529 | $57,691 | 4.5% |
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. Every occupation value is a DTG estimate: there is no published county or state census of occupations to report, so no value here is marked as published or estimated, and none carries a reliability score. Quarterly figures, county figures, detailed occupations and projected years are in the app.
How these figures are built
DTG’s industry employment fixes how many jobs there are in each industry in the state. The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ national industry-occupation matrix says how each industry is staffed, and the Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey says how many people work in each occupation in the area and what they earn. DTG makes the three agree, so occupation employment sums to the same totals as industry employment. Employment is the annual average; the mean annual wage is the year’s total occupation wages divided by that average employment. The construction is described in full on the occupation data page.
Notes
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Community and social service occupations in California, quarterly, at full depth
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