California · SOC 33-0000 · Annual, 2025
Protective service occupations in California
Employment and average annual wage for SOC 33-0000 in California, 2004–2025, from DTG's OEWS-based estimates.
In 2025, about 451,100 people in California worked in protective service occupations (SOC 33-0000), with an average annual wage of $85,800.
Employment in protective service occupations in California grew 14.5% from 2020 to 2025. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 451,100. 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.
- 451,100Employment, 2025
- $85,800Mean annual wage
- 2.5%Share of California jobs
- 1.03Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 332,800; 2005 336,100; 2006 342,400; 2007 351,100; 2008 358,600; 2009 349,900; 2010 343,100; 2011 342,100; 2012 344,800; 2013 350,000; 2014 359,300; 2015 369,400; 2016 378,200; 2017 373,800; 2018 387,800; 2019 412,500; 2020 394,100; 2021 402,300; 2022 422,700; 2023 432,200; 2024 447,000; 2025 451,100.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Mean annual wage | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 451,136 | $85,801 | 0.9% |
| 2024 | 447,030 | $82,314 | 3.4% |
| 2023 | 432,213 | $78,269 | 2.3% |
| 2022 | 422,698 | $77,315 | 5.1% |
| 2021 | 402,281 | $77,455 | 2.1% |
| 2020 | 394,119 | $76,665 | 4.5% |
| 2019 | 412,489 | $70,487 | 6.4% |
| 2018 | 387,774 | $67,211 | 3.7% |
| 2017 | 373,813 | $64,202 | 1.1% |
| 2016 | 378,161 | $60,945 | 2.4% |
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.
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Protective service occupations in California, quarterly, at full depth
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