California · NAICS 518 · Annual, 2025

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services in California

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 518 in California, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (NAICS 518) employed about 81,900 people in California across roughly 4,657 establishments, with average annual pay of $327,030.

Employment in Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services in California grew 51.4% from 2020 to 2025. The industry is 1.4× as concentrated in California as in the nation as a whole (location quotient 1.43). Average pay in the industry is 237.3% above the all-industries average in California. 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.

  • 81,900Employment, 2025
  • 4,657Establishments
  • $327,030Avg. annual pay
  • 0.4%Share of California jobs
  • 1.43Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services in California, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 20,600 to 81,900.025K50K75K100K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 20,600; 2005 20,600; 2006 21,100; 2007 21,400; 2008 19,800; 2009 18,900; 2010 18,800; 2011 18,800; 2012 20,500; 2013 23,600; 2014 25,500; 2015 33,200; 2016 39,600; 2017 43,200; 2018 48,800; 2019 51,900; 2020 54,100; 2021 56,700; 2022 71,300; 2023 83,300; 2024 79,400; 2025 81,900.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202581,8904,657$327,025 3.2%pub.
202479,3794,574$317,993 4.7%pub.
202383,2584,463$264,526 16.8%pub.
202271,2683,892$242,369 25.7%pub.
202156,6913,128$270,238 4.8%est. · 1.00
202054,0982,712$218,131 4.2%est. · 1.00
201951,9362,687$208,419 6.5%est. · 1.00
201848,7652,682$216,397 12.9%est. · 1.00
201743,2102,324$174,660 9.1%est. · 1.00
201639,6012,096$153,920 19.1%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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Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services in California, quarterly, at full depth

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