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Photographers

SOC 27-4021 · 2024-2034

Photograph people, landscapes, merchandise, or other subjects. May use lighting equipment to enhance a subject's appearance. May use editing software to produce finished images and prints. Includes commercial and industrial photographers, scientific photographers, and photojournalists.

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

The job this trains for

Typical pay in California
$49,179per year
Projected openings
21,270
Projected change
+6.4%
Usually needs
High school diploma or equivalent

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. Speaking
  2. Active Listening
  3. Service Orientation
  4. Active Learning
  5. Complex Problem Solving
  6. Judgment and Decision Making

Pay by region

RegionTypical pay in CaliforniaProjected openings
San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City MD (San Francisco and San Mateo Counties)$99,9211,660
San Rafael MD (Marin County)$74,708180
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale MD (Los Angeles County)$73,5527,300
Santa Maria-Santa Barbara MSA (Santa Barbara County)$62,565140
Oakland-Fremont-Berkeley MD (Alameda and Contra Costa Counties)$59,8211,000
Santa Rosa-Petaluma MSA (Sonoma County)$57,41990
Santa Cruz-Watsonville MSA (Santa Cruz County)$56,09450
Visalia MSA (Tulare County)$50,37360
Salinas MSA (Monterey County)$50,11680
Vallejo MSA (Solano County)$49,037190
San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles MSA (San Luis Obispo County)$47,764100
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara MSA (San Benito and Santa Clara Counties)$47,435660
Stockton-Lodi MSA (San Joaquin County)$47,127100
Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura MSA (Ventura County)$46,459260
Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom MSA (El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, and Yolo Counties)$45,956760
San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad MSA (San Diego County)$45,0621,900
Bakersfield-Delano MSA (Kern County)$44,816120
Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario MSA (Riverside and San Bernardino Counties)$43,1721,300
Fresno MSA (Fresno and Madera Counties)$40,419390
Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine MD (Orange County)$36,7233,710
Chico MSA (Butte County)Not reported20
El Centro MSA (Imperial County)Not reported20
Modesto MSA (Stanislaus County)Not reported140
Napa MSA (Napa County)Not reported30
North Coast Region (Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, and Mendocino Counties)Not reported10
North Valley-Northern Mountains Region (Colusa, Glenn, Lassen, Modoc, Nevada, Plumas, Sierra, Siskiyou, Tehama, and Trinity Counties)Not reported50
Redding MSA (Shasta County)Not reported30

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
Fine Artists, Including Painters, Sculptors, and Illustrators$59,8706,030+6.3%
Photographic Process Workers and Processing Machine Operators$48,4001,9000%
Graphic Designers$77,23324,970+1.2%
Special Effects Artists and Animators$134,19417,760+7%
Art Directors$141,63730,370+5.5%
Film and Video Editors$90,96710,010+7.9%

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