California · SOC 39-0000 · Annual, 2025
Personal care and service occupations in California
Employment and average annual wage for SOC 39-0000 in California, 2004–2025, from DTG's OEWS-based estimates.
In 2025, about 404,700 people in California worked in personal care and service occupations (SOC 39-0000), with an average annual wage of $53,330.
Employment in personal care and service occupations in California grew 46.2% from 2020 to 2025. The average wage in this occupation group is 45.0% below the all-occupations average in California. Employment fell 66.0% from 2017 to 2020 and has since recovered 23.8% of that loss. 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.
- 404,700Employment, 2025
- $53,330Mean annual wage
- 2.2%Share of California jobs
- 1.07Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 590,700; 2005 602,400; 2006 611,300; 2007 632,300; 2008 652,200; 2009 647,600; 2010 636,000; 2011 640,300; 2012 679,200; 2013 579,800; 2014 601,400; 2015 625,000; 2016 644,800; 2017 813,200; 2018 768,400; 2019 591,300; 2020 276,700; 2021 296,600; 2022 345,700; 2023 374,100; 2024 396,500; 2025 404,700.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Mean annual wage | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 404,651 | $53,334 | 2.1% |
| 2024 | 396,484 | $51,796 | 6.0% |
| 2023 | 374,133 | $49,251 | 8.2% |
| 2022 | 345,667 | $47,857 | 16.6% |
| 2021 | 296,552 | $47,049 | 7.2% |
| 2020 | 276,699 | $45,521 | 53.2% |
| 2019 | 591,291 | $40,299 | 23.1% |
| 2018 | 768,435 | $40,346 | 5.5% |
| 2017 | 813,227 | $39,227 | 26.1% |
| 2016 | 644,848 | $37,007 | 3.2% |
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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Personal care and service occupations in California, quarterly, at full depth
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