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Medical Records Specialists

SOC 29-2072 · 2024-2034

Compile, process, and maintain medical records of hospital and clinic patients in a manner consistent with medical, administrative, ethical, legal, and regulatory requirements of the healthcare system. Classify medical and healthcare concepts, including diagnosis, procedures, medical services, and equipment, into the healthcare industry's numerical coding system. Includes medical coders.

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

The job this trains for

Typical pay in California
$63,540per year
Projected openings
15,610
Projected change
+15%
Usually needs
Postsecondary non-degree award

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.

Pay by region

RegionTypical pay in CaliforniaProjected openings
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara MSA (San Benito and Santa Clara Counties)$89,323690
Vallejo MSA (Solano County)$77,316160
Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom MSA (El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, and Yolo Counties)$77,2541,210
San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City MD (San Francisco and San Mateo Counties)$76,199610
Oakland-Fremont-Berkeley MD (Alameda and Contra Costa Counties)$75,0661,040
Napa MSA (Napa County)$63,89040
Stockton-Lodi MSA (San Joaquin County)$62,781220
Santa Rosa-Petaluma MSA (Sonoma County)$62,463110
San Rafael MD (Marin County)$62,20790
Hanford-Corcoran MSA (Kings County)$58,52940
Santa Maria-Santa Barbara MSA (Santa Barbara County)$58,005180
San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad MSA (San Diego County)$57,5011,400
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale MD (Los Angeles County)$56,9274,670
Chico MSA (Butte County)$55,38560
Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura MSA (Ventura County)$55,201250
Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario MSA (Riverside and San Bernardino Counties)$54,9131,080
Santa Cruz-Watsonville MSA (Santa Cruz County)$53,97860
North Valley-Northern Mountains Region (Colusa, Glenn, Lassen, Modoc, Nevada, Plumas, Sierra, Siskiyou, Tehama, and Trinity Counties)$52,46880
Eastern Sierra-Mother Lode Region (Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, Inyo, Mariposa, Mono, and Tuolumne Counties)$52,29440
Fresno MSA (Fresno and Madera Counties)$52,037330
Salinas MSA (Monterey County)$52,016150
Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine MD (Orange County)$51,6821,660
Bakersfield-Delano MSA (Kern County)$51,195240
San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles MSA (San Luis Obispo County)$50,94870
North Coast Region (Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, and Mendocino Counties)$50,65090
Yuba City MSA (Sutter and Yuba Counties)$50,63040
Redding MSA (Shasta County)$50,61970
Visalia MSA (Tulare County)$50,496120
El Centro MSA (Imperial County)$50,42440
Merced MSA (Merced County)$49,14070
Modesto MSA (Stanislaus County)$49,140190

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
Medical Transcriptionists$46,19110,290-1.7%
Health Information Technologists and Medical Registrars$93,2902,650+18.8%
Medical Assistants$50,918175,850+22.7%
Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants$55,779128,130+12.6%
File Clerks$50,2008,840-13.3%
Health Technologists and Technicians, All Other$62,08022,750+14.3%

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