California · NAICS 522 · Annual, 2025

Credit Intermediation and Related Activities in California

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 522 in California, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Credit Intermediation and Related Activities (NAICS 522) employed about 195,900 people in California across roughly 16,221 establishments, with average annual pay of $154,040.

Employment in Credit Intermediation and Related Activities in California declined 17.7% from 2020 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 58.9% above the all-industries average in California. Employment fell 39.2% from 2006 to 2025. 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.

  • 195,900Employment, 2025
  • 16,221Establishments
  • $154,040Avg. annual pay
  • 1.1%Share of California jobs
  • 0.65Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Credit Intermediation and Related Activities in California, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 303,500 to 195,900.0100K200K300K400K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 303,500; 2005 321,100; 2006 322,200; 2007 301,800; 2008 259,900; 2009 243,300; 2010 241,100; 2011 244,200; 2012 251,000; 2013 249,700; 2014 238,300; 2015 237,900; 2016 244,600; 2017 244,700; 2018 239,600; 2019 237,500; 2020 238,100; 2021 242,100; 2022 231,800; 2023 206,700; 2024 196,300; 2025 195,900.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
2025195,87216,221$154,045 0.2%pub.
2024196,26816,464$143,249 5.0%pub.
2023206,65517,733$155,887 10.8%pub.
2022231,75418,566$139,201 4.3%pub.
2021242,08618,640$172,986 1.7%est. · 1.00
2020238,10418,249$135,287 0.3%pub.
2019237,49118,063$116,412 0.9%est. · 1.00
2018239,64118,218$106,014 2.1%pub.
2017244,71717,257$100,842 0.1%pub.
2016244,58816,718$95,273 2.8%pub.

† 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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Credit Intermediation and Related Activities in California, quarterly, at full depth

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