Best jobs in San Francisco, CA
The best-scoring occupations in the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA metro area, ranked on local pay plus national growth and opportunity.
Wages here are local to San Francisco, 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 San Francisco, CA pay compares to the nation
Median vs U.S. median · scale ±10%
$429,080 vs $300,080 · +43.0%
$219,080 vs $132,300 · +65.6%
$357,220 vs $107,310 · +232.9%
$351,670 vs $256,560 · +37.1%
$35,950 vs $35,800 · +0.4%
−10%U.S. MEDIAN+10%
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Occupation
MEDIAN, LOCAL
P25–P75
Growth
Employed
Open/yr
Score
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Occupation
MEDIAN, LOCAL
Growth
Score
126
$96,960
+3.1%
32
209
$130,710
+1.9%
27
291
$93,100
+0.3%
23
335
$62,110
-1.6%
21
361
$73,950
+3.7%
21
412
$65,820
+6.3%
19
441
$105,820
-13.7%
19
493
Electrical, Electronic, and Electromechanical Assemblers, Except Coil Winders, Tapers, and Finishers
$56,400
+4.6%
17
495
$76,990
+2.3%
17
653
$55,780
+2.0%
12
688
$62,320
-4.3%
11
696
$53,670
+1.2%
11
702
—†
-19.6%
11†
720
$58,360
-14.4%
10
730
$57,010
-13.6%
10
733
—†
-1.1%
10†
737
$52,810
-3.8%
10
759
$49,040
-12.1%
9
766
$48,320
-12.0%
9
Live jobs in San Francisco, CA
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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.