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Producers and Directors

SOC 27-2012 · 2024-2034

Produce or direct stage, television, radio, video, or film productions for entertainment, information, or instruction. Responsible for creative decisions, such as interpretation of script, choice of actors or guests, set design, sound, special effects, and choreography.

How the U.S. Department of Labor describes this work. Published in English only.

The job this trains for

Typical pay in California
$133,423per year
Projected openings
31,850
Projected change
+12.2%
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.

  1. Active Listening
  2. Reading Comprehension
  3. Critical Thinking
  4. Monitoring
  5. Speaking
  6. Social Perceptiveness

Pay by region

RegionTypical pay in CaliforniaProjected openings
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale MD (Los Angeles County)$132,44822,380
San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City MD (San Francisco and San Mateo Counties)$125,5263,870
Oakland-Fremont-Berkeley MD (Alameda and Contra Costa Counties)$108,286750
Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine MD (Orange County)$99,9641,750
San Rafael MD (Marin County)$95,871130
San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad MSA (San Diego County)$90,484930
Santa Cruz-Watsonville MSA (Santa Cruz County)$86,96140
Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom MSA (El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, and Yolo Counties)$85,872520
Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario MSA (Riverside and San Bernardino Counties)$83,941680
Napa MSA (Napa County)$80,91140
Stockton-Lodi MSA (San Joaquin County)$80,34640
Santa Maria-Santa Barbara MSA (Santa Barbara County)$80,068130
San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles MSA (San Luis Obispo County)$79,93540
Santa Rosa-Petaluma MSA (Sonoma County)$79,041100
Fresno MSA (Fresno and Madera Counties)$77,757370
Bakersfield-Delano MSA (Kern County)$74,881120
Modesto MSA (Stanislaus County)$68,34830
Chico MSA (Butte County)$68,30730
Redding MSA (Shasta County)$62,55520
North Valley-Northern Mountains Region (Colusa, Glenn, Lassen, Modoc, Nevada, Plumas, Sierra, Siskiyou, Tehama, and Trinity Counties)$61,64130
North Coast Region (Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, and Mendocino Counties)$61,44630
Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura MSA (Ventura County)Not reported210
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara MSA (San Benito and Santa Clara Counties)Not reported940

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 forTypical pay in CaliforniaProjected openingsProjected change
Film and Video Editors$90,96710,010+7.9%
Art Directors$141,63730,370+5.5%
Broadcast Announcers and Radio Disc JockeysNot reported1,7600%
Music Directors and Composers$95,6964,320+4.5%
Writers and Authors$88,90123,670+7%
Editors$100,77415,620+2.8%

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