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.
Based on wage level, year-over-year wage growth, and regional-price-parity-adjusted purchasing power from BLS and BEA sources, not job availability, industry mix, or day-to-day livability.
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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How to use Yuba City, CA wage figures in a real decision
- Family Medicine Physicians leads published medians in Yuba City, CA at $258,770/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Family Medicine Physicians
- The employment-weighted published-row mean of $64,370 adjusts to about $61,756 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 104.2. Salary vs cost of living
- Compare this metropolitan statistical area against the statewide occupation table for CA before treating one geography as the other. State wage page
BLS OEWS estimates reflect the May 2025 reference period; small occupation-area cells can be suppressed, and figures are not employer offers.
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.