Yuba City, CA Salaries

Highest published occupation medians in Yuba City, CA - BLS OEWS May 2025

Observed metro pay change

What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025

May 2024 → May 2025
  • BLS's published All Occupations median in Yuba City, CA moved from $48,330 in May 2024 to $49,970 in May 2025 (+3.4%).
  • Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
  • Yuba City, CA sits +0.3 pp near that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.

Home Health and Personal Care Aides shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Yuba City, CA

Home Health and Personal Care Aides publishes $34,320 here versus $35,800 nationally (-4.1%; 3,120metro-area jobs).

  1. Home Health and Personal Care Aides$34,320 in Yuba City, CA sits 4.1% below the national Home Health and Personal Care Aides median of $35,800 (3,120 published local jobs).

Home Health and Personal Care Aides and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Yuba City, CA; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.

BLS OEWS metro wage desk

MSA 49700 · Yuba City, CA $64K mean

MEAN-HIGH · RPP-MID · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST

  • MEAN-HIGH #112/528
  • RPP-MID 104.2
  • OCC-MID 227 occs
  • TOP-LEAD Family Medicin… · $259K
  • EMP-MIX Registered N…
  • TREND-INLINE +0.3 pp
  • PHOTO-FINISH Walla Walla, WA
  • BOOK-MOST 226 rows · May 2025

Read with Walla Walla, WA (+$61 on published-row mean) · Highest-paying careers

Instrument codes from this MSA’s OEWS published-row mean, BEA RPP, occupation book, employment lead, All Occupations pay change, and nearest peer — not a moving recommendation.

Published-row mean neighbourhood around Yuba City, CA

Guayama, PR · lowest mean: $32KGuayama, PR · lowest mean$32KYuba City, CA · this MSA: $64KYuba City, CA · this MSA$64KWalla Walla, WA · near: $64KWalla Walla, WA · near$64KIndianapolis-Carmel-… · near: $64KIndianapolis-Carmel-… · near$64KRedding, CA · near: $64KRedding, CA · near$64KOmaha, NE-IA · near: $65KOmaha, NE-IA · near$65KSan Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · highest mean: $119KSan Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · high…$119K
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Label Value
Guayama, PR · lowest mean $32K
Yuba City, CA · this MSA $64K
Walla Walla, WA · near $64K
Indianapolis-Carmel-… · near $64K
Redding, CA · near $64K
Omaha, NE-IA · near $65K
San Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · highest mean $119K

Employment scale inside Yuba City, CA's top-pay list

Registered Nurses and Civil Engineers lead published employment inside Yuba City, CA's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.

  1. 1. Registered Nurses 1,080 jobs · $149,320
  2. 2. Civil Engineers 460 jobs · $119,990
  3. 3. Medical and Health Services Managers 190 jobs · $129,680
  4. 4. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 180 jobs · $157,540
  5. 5. Pharmacists 140 jobs · $161,240
  6. 6. Financial Managers 140 jobs · $148,640
  7. 7. Managers, All Other 110 jobs · $129,160
  8. 8. Chief Executives 100 jobs · $209,060
  9. 9. Lawyers 90 jobs · $139,710
  10. 10. Software Developers 80 jobs · $132,120
  11. 11. Industrial Production Managers 80 jobs · $123,170
  12. 12. Nurse Practitioners 70 jobs · $165,020
  13. 13. Construction Managers 70 jobs · $126,200
  14. 14. Computer and Information Systems Managers 60 jobs · $151,750
  15. 15. Dental Hygienists 60 jobs · $124,780
  16. 16. Surveyors 50 jobs · $133,270
  17. 17. Electrical Engineers 50 jobs · $123,700
  18. 18. First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives 50 jobs · $121,880

Occupations Tracked

227

with wage data

Published-Row Mean

$64,370

employment-weighted, 226 complete rows

Top Salary

$258,770

Family Medicine Physicians

Cost of Living

104.2

4% above US avg

Price-level adjustment: Dividing the derived published-row mean of $64,370 by the metro RPP gives $61,756 on a national-price basis. This is not an after-tax income or a personal cost-of-living result.

Highest Paying Jobs in Yuba City, CA

# Occupation Median Salary
1 Family Medicine Physicians $258,770
2 Chief Executives $209,060
3 Architectural and Engineering Managers $184,720
4 Physician Assistants $183,460
5 Dentists, General $175,850
6 Nurse Practitioners $165,020
7 Pharmacists $161,240
8 Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary $157,540
9 Computer and Information Systems Managers $151,750
10 Registered Nurses $149,320
11 Financial Managers $148,640
12 Human Resources Managers $143,210
13 Lawyers $139,710
14 Surveyors $133,270
15 Software Developers $132,120
16 Marketing Managers $130,000
17 Medical and Health Services Managers $129,680
18 Managers, All Other $129,160
19 Construction Managers $126,200
20 School Psychologists $125,860
21 Dental Hygienists $124,780
22 Electrical Engineers $123,700
23 Industrial Production Managers $123,170
24 First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives $121,880
25 Civil Engineers $119,990

Lowest Paying Jobs in Yuba City, CA

Other BLS Wage Areas in CA

Other metropolitan or nonmetropolitan OEWS areas assigned to the same state. Cross-state pay and employment peers live in Nationwide similar metros below.

Nationwide metros with similar published-row mean pay or employment scale

Two OEWS peer sets outside CA. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($64,370 here) and summed published employment.

Similar mean wage

Nearest other metros by employment-weighted published-row annual mean wage.

Peers are nearest-neighbor matches on BLS OEWS employment-weighted published-row mean wage and summed occupation employment. Employment peers exclude metros already listed in the mean-wage column so the two link sets stay distinct. Mean wage here is not a worker-level median.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the average salary in Yuba City, CA?
Across the 226 occupation rows for Yuba City, CA with both a published mean wage and employment estimate, weighting each mean by employment gives $64,370/year (BLS OEWS May 2025). The page has 227 occupations with a published median, a different denominator. This WageDex-derived benchmark is not a BLS-published All Occupations metro mean or median and does not state what a typical local worker earns. For contrast, averaging the medians of only the 25 highest-paying occupations gives $149,924, which describes the displayed top tier only.
Which published medians lead Yuba City, CA?
Family Medicine Physicians holds the highest published median in Yuba City, CA at $258,770/year (BLS OEWS May 2025). Next is Chief Executives at $209,060/year. These are occupation medians for this metropolitan statistical area, not employer offers.
What is the cost of living in Yuba City, CA?
Yuba City, CA has a Regional Price Parity of 104.2, meaning prices are 4% above the national average. Dividing the derived published-row mean of $64,370 by the RPP gives a national-price-equivalent benchmark of $61,756.
Where does BLS salary data for Yuba City, CA come from?
All salary figures are Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS May 2025 estimates for this metropolitan statistical area. OEWS surveys approximately 1.1 million business establishments. Medians and means on this page are the published occupation-level estimates for the area — not job-board scrapes or modeled employer offers.

Last updated: May 2025 (BLS OEWS annual release). Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS May 2025. Cost-of-living index: BEA Regional Price Parities, 2024.

Source data and WageDex calculations are identified in context on this page. Occupation rows use BLS OEWS May 2025. The metro benchmark is WageDex's employment-weighted mean of published occupation means; where BEA RPP is available, the price-level figure divides that benchmark by the published area parity. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.

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