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Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers

SOC 33-3051 · 2024-2034

Maintain order and protect life and property by enforcing local, tribal, state, or federal laws and ordinances. Perform a combination of the following duties: patrol a specific area; direct traffic; issue traffic summonses; investigate accidents; apprehend and arrest suspects, or serve legal processes of courts. Includes police officers working at educational institutions.

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

The job this trains for

Typical pay in California
$121,891per year
Projected openings
52,390
Projected change
+5.2%
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. Social Perceptiveness
  2. Active Listening
  3. Speaking
  4. Active Learning
  5. Critical Thinking
  6. Persuasion

Pay by region

RegionTypical pay in CaliforniaProjected openings
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara MSA (San Benito and Santa Clara Counties)$154,9331,920
Oakland-Fremont-Berkeley MD (Alameda and Contra Costa Counties)$137,3613,400
San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City MD (San Francisco and San Mateo Counties)$133,5942,800
Napa MSA (Napa County)$132,647220
Vallejo MSA (Solano County)$132,123520
San Rafael MD (Marin County)$131,417320
Santa Cruz-Watsonville MSA (Santa Cruz County)$126,641350
Salinas MSA (Monterey County)$125,767560
Santa Rosa-Petaluma MSA (Sonoma County)$124,821520
Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura MSA (Ventura County)$124,492980
Santa Maria-Santa Barbara MSA (Santa Barbara County)$122,980550
Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine MD (Orange County)$121,2843,130
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale MD (Los Angeles County)$118,16414,700
Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom MSA (El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, and Yolo Counties)$115,8324,830
San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad MSA (San Diego County)$112,2943,890
Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario MSA (Riverside and San Bernardino Counties)$109,8884,650
Redding MSA (Shasta County)$107,965350
Stockton-Lodi MSA (San Joaquin County)$105,640820
San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles MSA (San Luis Obispo County)$104,581380
Fresno MSA (Fresno and Madera Counties)$104,5301,210
Eastern Sierra-Mother Lode Region (Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, Inyo, Mariposa, Mono, and Tuolumne Counties)$99,634350
North Valley-Northern Mountains Region (Colusa, Glenn, Lassen, Modoc, Nevada, Plumas, Sierra, Siskiyou, Tehama, and Trinity Counties)$99,624570
Chico MSA (Butte County)$98,616170
Visalia MSA (Tulare County)$94,605390
Yuba City MSA (Sutter and Yuba Counties)$86,316200
Hanford-Corcoran MSA (Kings County)$85,977170
Merced MSA (Merced County)$85,257320
Modesto MSA (Stanislaus County)$85,257560
North Coast Region (Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, and Mendocino Counties)$85,247440
Bakersfield-Delano MSA (Kern County)$81,2971,010
El Centro MSA (Imperial County)$78,747240

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
Detectives and Criminal Investigators$128,0029,580+4.5%
First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives$168,1139,390+5.3%
Correctional Officers and Jailers$98,81131,850-5.1%
Probation Officers and Correctional Treatment Specialists$106,54112,420+5%
Private Detectives and Investigators$62,8014,230+6.4%
First-Line Supervisors of Correctional Officers$134,5343,8100%

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