California · SOC 41-0000 · Annual, 2025

Sales and related occupations in California

Employment and average annual wage for SOC 41-0000 in California, 2004–2025, from DTG's OEWS-based estimates.

In 2025, about 1,417,800 people in California worked in sales and related occupations (SOC 41-0000), with an average annual wage of $73,540.

Employment in sales and related occupations in California declined 7.8% from 2004 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.

  • 1,417,800Employment, 2025
  • $73,540Mean annual wage
  • 7.8%Share of California jobs
  • 0.91Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in sales and related occupations in California, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 1,537,200 to 1,417,800.0500K1M1.5M2M20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 1,537,200; 2005 1,574,100; 2006 1,602,200; 2007 1,608,900; 2008 1,568,800; 2009 1,447,600; 2010 1,433,800; 2011 1,457,400; 2012 1,493,100; 2013 1,532,900; 2014 1,565,000; 2015 1,596,500; 2016 1,619,400; 2017 1,613,500; 2018 1,613,800; 2019 1,618,200; 2020 1,476,600; 2021 1,483,700; 2022 1,487,100; 2023 1,449,700; 2024 1,437,800; 2025 1,417,800.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentMean annual wageChange
20251,417,817$73,536 1.4%
20241,437,837$69,524 0.8%
20231,449,718$67,726 2.5%
20221,487,148$65,554 0.2%
20211,483,651$66,409 0.5%
20201,476,592$60,695 8.8%
20191,618,178$54,999 0.3%
20181,613,826$52,285 0.0%
20171,613,462$50,054 0.4%
20161,619,389$46,906 1.4%

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.

Occupation values are DTG estimates built on OEWS and DTG's industry data, as described in the methodology. Method: Occupation.

Notes

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Sales and related occupations in California, quarterly, at full depth

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