Dietitians and Nutritionists

SOC 29-1031 · 2024-2034

Plan and conduct food service or nutritional programs to assist in the promotion of health and control of disease. May supervise activities of a department providing quantity food services, counsel individuals, or conduct nutritional research.

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

The job this trains for

Typical pay in California: $101,617per year
Projected openings: 7,870
Projected change: +14.3%
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.

Reading Comprehension
Speaking
Judgment and Decision Making
Active Listening
Critical Thinking
Social Perceptiveness

Pay by region

Region	Typical pay in California	Projected openings
Vallejo MSA (Solano County)	$111,438	70
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara MSA (San Benito and Santa Clara Counties)	$109,415	690
Oakland-Fremont-Berkeley MD (Alameda and Contra Costa Counties)	$107,528	650
Santa Rosa-Petaluma MSA (Sonoma County)	$105,388	90
Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom MSA (El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, and Yolo Counties)	$103,313	540
Santa Maria-Santa Barbara MSA (Santa Barbara County)	$102,235	90
San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City MD (San Francisco and San Mateo Counties)	$101,009	620
Santa Cruz-Watsonville MSA (Santa Cruz County)	$100,109	50
Salinas MSA (Monterey County)	$99,718	80
San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad MSA (San Diego County)	$98,917	630
San Rafael MD (Marin County)	$98,263	60
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale MD (Los Angeles County)	$96,169	1,720
Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura MSA (Ventura County)	$92,939	170
Chico MSA (Butte County)	$92,775	40
Bakersfield-Delano MSA (Kern County)	$92,672	100
Napa MSA (Napa County)	$92,641	30
Stockton-Lodi MSA (San Joaquin County)	$91,994	140
Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario MSA (Riverside and San Bernardino Counties)	$91,819	630
San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles MSA (San Luis Obispo County)	$90,464	50
Fresno MSA (Fresno and Madera Counties)	$88,933	230
North Coast Region (Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, and Mendocino Counties)	$83,551	40
Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine MD (Orange County)	$82,898	990
Merced MSA (Merced County)	$81,815	20
Modesto MSA (Stanislaus County)	$81,815	110
Visalia MSA (Tulare County)	$81,435	60
Redding MSA (Shasta County)	$79,997	40
Eastern Sierra-Mother Lode Region (Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, Inyo, Mariposa, Mono, and Tuolumne Counties)	$79,688	40
North Valley-Northern Mountains Region (Colusa, Glenn, Lassen, Modoc, Nevada, Plumas, Sierra, Siskiyou, Tehama, and Trinity Counties)	$78,723	60
Yuba City MSA (Sutter and Yuba Counties)	$78,589	20

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
Dietetic Technicians	$47,709	9,280	+12.7%
Registered Nurses	$144,197	228,840	+13.5%
Nurse Practitioners	$173,237	26,610	+52.2%
Pediatricians, General	$220,134	2,350	+7%
Health Education Specialists	$65,391	16,320	+10.2%
Healthcare Diagnosing or Treating Practitioners, All Other	$129,065	1,540	+14.3%

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