Workers in the Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area had an average (mean) hourly wage of $37.09 in May 2025, compared to the nationwide average of $33.54, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Regional Commissioner Chris Rosenlund noted that higher paying major occupational groups included legal ($75.11), management ($68.56), and healthcare practitioners and technical ($68.03). Lower paying occupations included healthcare support ($20.07), food preparation and serving related ($20.90), and personal care and service ($21.21). (See table A.)

Occupational groups with the highest employment shares in the Sacramento area included office and administrative support (10.5 percent), business and financial operations (8.7 percent), and food preparation and serving related (8.4 percent). Major occupational groups on the lower end of local employment included legal (1.1 percent); arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media (1.1 percent); and life, physical, and social science (1.5 percent).

One occupational group—business and financial operations—was chosen to illustrate the diversity of data available for any of the 22 major occupational categories. Sacramento had 93,550 jobs in business and financial operations, accounting for 8.7 percent of local area employment, compared to the 6.8-percent share nationally. The average hourly wage for this occupational group locally was $45.21, compared to the national wage of $45.78.

Some of the larger detailed occupations within the business and financial operations group included management analysts (25,600), accountants and auditors (13,170), and project management specialists (6,860). Among the higher paying jobs in this group were personal financial advisors ($75.20) and financial risk specialists ($61.50). At the lower end of the wage scale were tax preparers ($32.14) and tax examiners and collectors, and revenue agents ($35.37). (Detailed data for the business and financial operations occupations are presented in table 1; for a complete listing of detailed occupations available go to https://data.bls.gov/oes/#/area/0040900/2025.)

Location quotients allow us to explore the occupational make-up of a metropolitan area by comparing the composition of jobs in an area relative to the national average. (See table 1.) For example, a location quotient of 2.00 indicates that an occupation accounts for twice the share of employment in the area than it does nationally. In the Sacramento area, above-average concentrations of employment were found in some of the occupations within the business and financial operations group. For instance, tax examiners and collectors, and revenue agents were employed at 9.60 times the national rate in Sacramento, and management analysts, at 4.10 times the U.S. average. Compliance officers had a location quotient of 0.97 in Sacramento, indicating that this particular occupation’s local and national employment shares were similar.

The statistics in this release are from the Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) survey, a cooperative effort between BLS and the State Workforce Agencies (SWAs). BLS funds the survey and provides the procedures and technical support. State Workforce Agencies collect most of the data: in this case, the California Employment Development Department.

Technical Note

The Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) survey is a semiannual survey measuring occupational employment and wage rates for wage and salary workers in nonfarm establishments in the United States. The OEWS data available from BLS include cross-industry occupational employment and wage estimates for the nation; over 530 areas, including states and the District of Columbia, metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs), nonmetropolitan areas, and territories; national industry-specific estimates at the NAICS sector, 3-digit, most 4-digit, and selected 5- and 6-digit industry levels; and national estimates by ownership across all industries and for schools and hospitals. Full OEWS data tables are available online.

Additional information about the OEWS estimates and methodology is available in the national Technical Notes. The overall national response rate for the six panels, based on the 50 states and the District of Columbia, is 66.2 percent based on establishments and 67.2 percent based on weighted sampled employment. Sample sizes and response rates by metropolitan and nonmetropolitan area are available on the Additional OEWS data sets page.

Metropolitan area definitions

The substate area data published in this release reflect the standards and definitions established by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget.

The Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area includes El Dorado County, Placer County, Sacramento County, and Yolo County.

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Table 1. Employment and wage data for business and financial operations occupations, Sacramento metropolitan area, May 2025

Occupation (1)	Employment		Mean wages ($)
	Level (2)	Location quotient (3)	Hourly	Annual (4)
Business and financial operations occupations	93,550	1.28	45.21	94,030
Buyers and purchasing agents	2,250	0.66	42.49	88,390
Claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators	2,560	1.13	42.98	89,400
Insurance appraisers, auto damage	30	0.42	40.76	84,770
Compliance officers	2,820	0.97	47.84	99,500
Cost estimators	1,930	1.24	45.92	95,520
Human resources specialists	5,360	0.85	43.00	89,450
Labor relations specialists	930	2.06	50.55	105,150
Logisticians	1,210	0.70	46.07	95,830
Project management specialists	6,860	0.93	59.68	124,130
Management analysts	25,600	4.10	42.26	87,910
Meeting, convention, and event planners	910	0.92	36.18	75,260
Fundraisers	620	0.81	40.34	83,900
Compensation, benefits, and job analysis specialists	1,560	1.99	43.38	90,220
Training and development specialists	2,610	0.82	39.86	82,910
Market research analysts and marketing specialists	4,470	0.71	42.14	87,650
Business operations specialists, all other	8,400	1.11	46.17	96,040
Accountants and auditors	13,170	1.31	45.65	94,950
Property appraisers and assessors	370	0.93	47.84	99,510
Budget analysts	500	1.51	48.56	101,010
Credit analysts	270	0.60	44.62	92,800
Financial and investment analysts	1,590	0.63	55.36	115,150
Personal financial advisors	1,260	0.68	75.20	156,410
Insurance underwriters	660	0.90	49.62	103,210
Financial risk specialists	290	0.65	61.50	127,920
Financial examiners	410	0.86	48.39	100,660
Credit counselors	110	0.57	36.97	76,900
Loan officers	1,580	0.83	44.75	93,070
Tax examiners and collectors, and revenue agents	3,780	9.60	35.37	73,570
Tax preparers	740	1.39	32.14	66,850
Financial specialists, all other	680	0.74	38.71	80,520
Footnotes: (1) For a complete listing of all detailed occupations in the Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area, see https://data.bls.gov/oes/#/area/0040900/2025. (2) Estimates for detailed occupations may not sum to the totals due to rounding, and because the totals may include occupations that are not shown separately. Estimates do not include self-employed workers. (3) The location quotient is the ratio of the area concentration of occupational employment to the national average concentration. A location quotient greater than one indicates the occupation has a higher share of employment than average, and a location quotient less than one indicates the occupation is less prevalent in the area than average. (4) Annual wages have been calculated by multiplying the hourly mean wage by a 'year-round, full-time' hours figure of 2,080 hours; for those occupations where there is not an hourly mean wage published, the annual wage has been directly calculated from the reported survey data.