Best jobs in Sacramento, CA
The best-scoring occupations in the Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA metro area, ranked on local pay plus national growth and opportunity.
Wages here are local to Sacramento, CA (OEWS May 2025). Projected growth and openings are national BLS projections — not a local forecast.
How this ranking is scored
score = .40·pay + .30·growth + .20·employment + .10·openings
Each factor is scaled to the strongest occupation on this list, then weighted and summed. Weights differ by list type. Full methodology.
Wages — OEWS May 2025 (metro)
Growth & openings — EP 2024–34 (national)
How Sacramento, CA pay compares to the nation
Median vs U.S. median · scale ±10%
$361,590 vs $256,560 · +40.9%
−10%U.S. MEDIAN+10%
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Occupation
MEDIAN, LOCAL
P25–P75
Growth
Employed
Open/yr
Score
Showing top 25 of 794 scored occupations — show all 794show top 25
#
Occupation
MEDIAN, LOCAL
Growth
Score
244
—†
-13.7%
24†
245
$111,030
+1.9%
24
253
$71,910
+3.1%
24
340
$75,250
+0.3%
20
363
$55,020
-1.6%
20
375
$63,240
+3.7%
20
435
$52,510
+6.3%
18
441
$73,670
+2.3%
18
536
Electrical, Electronic, and Electromechanical Assemblers, Except Coil Winders, Tapers, and Finishers
$46,180
+4.6%
15
665
—†
-19.6%
12†
672
$60,190
-13.6%
11
698
$44,830
+2.0%
11
703
—†
-1.1%
11†
716
$54,120
-14.4%
10
721
$52,000
-4.3%
10
723
$50,920
-12.1%
10
739
$47,710
-3.8%
9
770
$45,050
-12.0%
9
Live jobs in Sacramento, CA
Bureau of ReclamationVerified from company ATS
Supervisory Interdisciplinary (General Engineer/Physical Scientist/Mathematician)
$117,984–$160,638/yr View job →
Growth and openings are national (BLS EP 2024–34) — state-level projections are not in this data pull, so the same national figure is used for every place and we say so rather than guess. † local wage not published for this cell — the score uses the state value and the pay column shows a dash.