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
- 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).
- 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
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. Registered Nurses 1,080 jobs · $149,320
- 2. Civil Engineers 460 jobs · $119,990
- 3. Medical and Health Services Managers 190 jobs · $129,680
- 4. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 180 jobs · $157,540
- 5. Pharmacists 140 jobs · $161,240
- 6. Financial Managers 140 jobs · $148,640
- 7. Managers, All Other 110 jobs · $129,160
- 8. Chief Executives 100 jobs · $209,060
- 9. Lawyers 90 jobs · $139,710
- 10. Software Developers 80 jobs · $132,120
- 11. Industrial Production Managers 80 jobs · $123,170
- 12. Nurse Practitioners 70 jobs · $165,020
- 13. Construction Managers 70 jobs · $126,200
- 14. Computer and Information Systems Managers 60 jobs · $151,750
- 15. Dental Hygienists 60 jobs · $124,780
- 16. Surveyors 50 jobs · $133,270
- 17. Electrical Engineers 50 jobs · $123,700
- 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
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
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $34,320 |
| Waiters and Waitresses | $34,320 |
| Bartenders | $34,320 |
| Home Health and Personal Care Aides | $34,320 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $34,880 |
| Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse | $34,960 |
| Office and Administrative Support Workers, All Other | $34,980 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $35,090 |
| Food Preparation and Serving Related Workers, All Other | $35,150 |
| Counselors, All Other | $35,640 |
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.
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