California · NAICS 922 · Annual, 2025
Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities in California
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 922 in California, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities (NAICS 922) employed about 278,000 people in California across roughly 3,144 establishments, with average annual pay of $129,380.
Employment in Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities in California was essentially flat from 2004 to 2025 (+1.2%). 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.
- 278,000Employment, 2025
- 3,144Establishments
- $129,380Avg. annual pay
- 1.5%Share of California jobs
- 1.22Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 274,800; 2005 275,000; 2006 283,200; 2007 295,600; 2008 305,000; 2009 305,200; 2010 296,000; 2011 290,400; 2012 284,400; 2013 278,800; 2014 281,200; 2015 273,700; 2016 278,500; 2017 279,600; 2018 280,400; 2019 282,200; 2020 280,800; 2021 274,600; 2022 272,700; 2023 275,300; 2024 278,400; 2025 278,000.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 277,984 | 3,144 | $129,382 | 0.2% | pub. |
| 2024 | 278,448 | 3,339 | $123,652 | 1.1% | pub. |
| 2023 | 275,269 | 3,237 | $116,844 | 0.9% | pub. |
| 2022 | 272,719 | 3,204 | $111,161 | 0.7% | pub. |
| 2021 | 274,585 | 3,255 | $107,150 | 2.2% | pub. |
| 2020 | 280,830 | 3,375 | $103,872 | 0.5% | pub. |
| 2019 | 282,170 | 3,361 | $98,114 | 0.6% | pub. |
| 2018 | 280,415 | 3,242 | $95,340 | 0.3% | pub. |
| 2017 | 279,606 | 3,224 | $91,843 | 0.4% | pub. |
| 2016 | 278,486 | 3,232 | $88,721 | 1.8% | pub. |
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.
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Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities in California, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for justice, public order, and safety activities in California. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.
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