California · NAICS 22 · Annual, 2025
Utilities in California
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 22 in California, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Utilities (NAICS 22) employed about 119,800 people in California across roughly 2,658 establishments, with average annual pay of $159,890.
Employment in Utilities in California grew 10.7% from 2020 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 64.9% above the all-industries average in California. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 119,800. 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.
- 119,800Employment, 2025
- 2,658Establishments
- $159,890Avg. annual pay
- 0.7%Share of California jobs
- 1.17Location quotient
The 2025 figures above are a DTG estimate: Estimated · 1.00. † Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 104,500; 2005 104,800; 2006 105,500; 2007 108,000; 2008 109,200; 2009 110,900; 2010 105,400; 2011 105,700; 2012 106,500; 2013 105,700; 2014 105,100; 2015 105,700; 2016 107,600; 2017 107,700; 2018 105,200; 2019 106,100; 2020 108,200; 2021 108,800; 2022 111,400; 2023 114,900; 2024 119,200; 2025 119,800.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 119,832 | 2,658 | $159,895 | 0.5% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2024 | 119,225 | 2,628 | $151,874 | 3.8% | pub. |
| 2023 | 114,904 | 2,545 | $145,453 | 3.2% | pub. |
| 2022 | 111,364 | 2,377 | $135,347 | 2.4% | pub. |
| 2021 | 108,791 | 2,208 | $130,262 | 0.5% | pub. |
| 2020 | 108,221 | 2,089 | $128,075 | 2.0% | pub. |
| 2019 | 106,095 | 2,010 | $122,094 | 0.9% | pub. |
| 2018 | 105,186 | 2,003 | $117,213 | 2.3% | pub. |
| 2017 | 107,705 | 1,948 | $114,086 | 0.1% | pub. |
| 2016 | 107,627 | 1,902 | $109,969 | 1.8% | pub. |
† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.
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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.
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Utilities in California, quarterly, at full depth
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