Civil Engineers
SOC 17-2051 · 2024-2034
Perform engineering duties in planning, designing, and overseeing construction and maintenance of building structures and facilities, such as roads, railroads, airports, bridges, harbors, channels, dams, irrigation projects, pipelines, power plants, and water and sewage systems.
How the U.S. Department of Labor describes this work. Published in English only.
The job this trains for
- Typical pay in California
- $125,929per year
- Projected openings
- 38,210
- Projected change
- +8.2%
- Usually needs
- Bachelor's degree
Bright Outlook — a U.S. Department of Labor designation
Rapid Growth
The Department's own designation, made from its national projections. It is not this project's assessment and it is not California's: every other figure on this page comes from California's projection, which can point the other way and for some occupations does.
Skills this work uses most
O*NET, the U.S. Department of Labor's occupation database, rates how important each of these is to this work, and they are listed in that order, most important first. The ratings themselves are not shown, because the data carries the number without the scale it was measured on. The names are as published, in English.
- Active Listening
- Critical Thinking
- Mathematics
- Speaking
- Complex Problem Solving
- Reading Comprehension
Pay by region
| Region | Typical pay in California | Projected openings |
|---|---|---|
| Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom MSA (El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, and Yolo Counties) | $133,851 | 3,950 |
| San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara MSA (San Benito and Santa Clara Counties) | $132,773 | 2,200 |
| Redding MSA (Shasta County) | $130,585 | 240 |
| Oakland-Fremont-Berkeley MD (Alameda and Contra Costa Counties) | $130,397 | 4,300 |
| San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City MD (San Francisco and San Mateo Counties) | $130,000 | 2,560 |
| Napa MSA (Napa County) | $126,158 | 110 |
| San Rafael MD (Marin County) | $124,143 | 150 |
| Yuba City MSA (Sutter and Yuba Counties) | $120,940 | 300 |
| Santa Cruz-Watsonville MSA (Santa Cruz County) | $119,605 | 130 |
| Santa Rosa-Petaluma MSA (Sonoma County) | $119,122 | 280 |
| Vallejo MSA (Solano County) | $116,585 | 270 |
| Eastern Sierra-Mother Lode Region (Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, Inyo, Mariposa, Mono, and Tuolumne Counties) | $116,441 | 100 |
| Salinas MSA (Monterey County) | $115,568 | 150 |
| North Coast Region (Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, and Mendocino Counties) | $115,064 | 240 |
| Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale MD (Los Angeles County) | $114,139 | 7,240 |
| Fresno MSA (Fresno and Madera Counties) | $113,935 | 890 |
| San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles MSA (San Luis Obispo County) | $113,935 | 500 |
| Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario MSA (Riverside and San Bernardino Counties) | $112,219 | 2,630 |
| Stockton-Lodi MSA (San Joaquin County) | $110,945 | 430 |
| Santa Maria-Santa Barbara MSA (Santa Barbara County) | $109,322 | 380 |
| Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura MSA (Ventura County) | $109,312 | 480 |
| El Centro MSA (Imperial County) | $109,271 | 80 |
| San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad MSA (San Diego County) | $109,240 | 4,770 |
| Hanford-Corcoran MSA (Kings County) | $106,015 | 20 |
| Visalia MSA (Tulare County) | $104,371 | 130 |
| Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine MD (Orange County) | $102,480 | 4,240 |
| Merced MSA (Merced County) | $102,307 | 30 |
| Modesto MSA (Stanislaus County) | $102,307 | 220 |
| North Valley-Northern Mountains Region (Colusa, Glenn, Lassen, Modoc, Nevada, Plumas, Sierra, Siskiyou, Tehama, and Trinity Counties) | $101,393 | 120 |
| Bakersfield-Delano MSA (Kern County) | $100,828 | 550 |
| Chico MSA (Butte County) | $97,150 | 110 |
Similar work
O*NET, the U.S. Department of Labor's occupation database, names these as occupations involving work similar to this one — its own reading of the job, not a grouping by code. They keep O*NET's order, and only those California publishes a projection for are shown.
| The job this trains for | Typical pay in California | Projected openings | Projected change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Civil Engineering Technologists and Technicians | $85,827 | 6,450 | +4.1% |
| Construction Managers | $135,394 | 47,800 | +10.9% |
| Construction and Building Inspectors | $104,034 | 14,650 | +2.1% |
| Environmental Engineers | $134,061 | 3,690 | +6.4% |
| Architectural and Civil Drafters | $78,662 | 10,740 | +7% |
| Architectural and Engineering Managers | $213,808 | 20,870 | +5% |
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