Health Education Specialists
SOC 21-1091 · 2024-2034
Provide and manage health education programs that help individuals, families, and their communities maximize and maintain healthy lifestyles. Use data to identify community needs prior to planning, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating programs designed to encourage healthy lifestyles, policies, and environments. May link health systems, health providers, insurers, and patients to address individual and population health needs. May serve as resource to assist individuals, other health professionals, or the community, and may administer fiscal resources for health education programs.
How the U.S. Department of Labor describes this work. Published in English only.
The job this trains for
- Typical pay in California
- $65,391per year
- Projected openings
- 16,320
- Projected change
- +10.2%
- 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.
- Speaking
- Active Listening
- Writing
- Learning Strategies
- Social Perceptiveness
- Active Learning
Pay by region
| Region | Typical pay in California | Projected openings |
|---|---|---|
| San Rafael MD (Marin County) | $104,570 | 60 |
| Vallejo MSA (Solano County) | $83,684 | 170 |
| Santa Cruz-Watsonville MSA (Santa Cruz County) | $80,942 | 70 |
| Merced MSA (Merced County) | $79,185 | 40 |
| Modesto MSA (Stanislaus County) | $79,185 | 250 |
| Eastern Sierra-Mother Lode Region (Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, Inyo, Mariposa, Mono, and Tuolumne Counties) | $77,737 | 50 |
| North Valley-Northern Mountains Region (Colusa, Glenn, Lassen, Modoc, Nevada, Plumas, Sierra, Siskiyou, Tehama, and Trinity Counties) | $75,159 | 160 |
| San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City MD (San Francisco and San Mateo Counties) | $74,142 | 1,260 |
| Oakland-Fremont-Berkeley MD (Alameda and Contra Costa Counties) | $74,137 | 1,030 |
| San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara MSA (San Benito and Santa Clara Counties) | $72,067 | 810 |
| Santa Maria-Santa Barbara MSA (Santa Barbara County) | $64,517 | 140 |
| Yuba City MSA (Sutter and Yuba Counties) | $64,075 | 30 |
| Santa Rosa-Petaluma MSA (Sonoma County) | $64,065 | 240 |
| Visalia MSA (Tulare County) | $63,418 | 110 |
| Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom MSA (El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, and Yolo Counties) | $62,052 | 1,320 |
| North Coast Region (Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, and Mendocino Counties) | $61,692 | 260 |
| Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine MD (Orange County) | $61,654 | 1,480 |
| Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale MD (Los Angeles County) | $61,649 | 4,930 |
| San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad MSA (San Diego County) | $61,528 | 1,450 |
| San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles MSA (San Luis Obispo County) | $61,240 | 350 |
| Stockton-Lodi MSA (San Joaquin County) | $59,422 | 130 |
| Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario MSA (Riverside and San Bernardino Counties) | $59,309 | 810 |
| Chico MSA (Butte County) | $58,498 | 240 |
| Bakersfield-Delano MSA (Kern County) | $58,416 | 300 |
| Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura MSA (Ventura County) | $57,738 | 200 |
| El Centro MSA (Imperial County) | $54,831 | 30 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community Health Workers | $59,675 | 12,530 | +20.4% |
| Computer Systems Analysts | $131,295 | 41,500 | +9.7% |
| Nursing Instructors and Teachers, Postsecondary | $84,254 | 6,140 | +16.9% |
| Healthcare Social Workers | $92,170 | 19,610 | +19.4% |
| Rehabilitation Counselors | $45,725 | 17,450 | +14.8% |
| Dietitians and Nutritionists | $101,617 | 7,870 | +14.3% |
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