California · SOC 19-0000 · Annual, 2025
Life, physical, and social science occupations in California
Employment and average annual wage for SOC 19-0000 in California, 2004–2025, from DTG's OEWS-based estimates.
In 2025, about 209,700 people in California worked in life, physical, and social science occupations (SOC 19-0000), with an average annual wage of $129,390.
Employment in life, physical, and social science occupations in California grew 15.0% from 2020 to 2025. 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.
- 209,700Employment, 2025
- $129,390Mean annual wage
- 1.1%Share of California jobs
- 1.23Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 140,500; 2005 143,200; 2006 146,700; 2007 151,000; 2008 154,700; 2009 151,500; 2010 153,900; 2011 154,200; 2012 157,600; 2013 160,500; 2014 162,800; 2015 164,700; 2016 168,000; 2017 162,900; 2018 164,300; 2019 176,700; 2020 182,300; 2021 192,600; 2022 204,900; 2023 206,300; 2024 209,800; 2025 209,700.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Mean annual wage | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 209,745 | $129,389 | 0.0% |
| 2024 | 209,829 | $124,549 | 1.7% |
| 2023 | 206,304 | $116,926 | 0.7% |
| 2022 | 204,883 | $114,737 | 6.4% |
| 2021 | 192,586 | $112,977 | 5.6% |
| 2020 | 182,331 | $109,559 | 3.2% |
| 2019 | 176,661 | $99,981 | 7.5% |
| 2018 | 164,341 | $97,657 | 0.9% |
| 2017 | 162,937 | $94,271 | 3.0% |
| 2016 | 167,955 | $91,284 | 2.0% |
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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Life, physical, and social science occupations in California, quarterly, at full depth
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