Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop

SOC 35-9031 · 2024-2034

Welcome patrons, seat them at tables or in lounge, and help ensure quality of facilities and service.

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

The job this trains for

Typical pay in California: $37,568per year
Projected openings: 106,400
Projected change: +1.9%
Usually needs: No formal educational credential

Bright Outlook — a U.S. Department of Labor designation
Numerous Job Openings

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.

Active Listening
Speaking
Service Orientation
Social Perceptiveness
Reading Comprehension
Coordination

Pay by region

Region	Typical pay in California	Projected openings
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara MSA (San Benito and Santa Clara Counties)	$41,137	4,900
San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City MD (San Francisco and San Mateo Counties)	$39,581	7,810
San Rafael MD (Marin County)	$38,758	870
Oakland-Fremont-Berkeley MD (Alameda and Contra Costa Counties)	$38,620	5,200
Napa MSA (Napa County)	$38,237	1,410
Santa Rosa-Petaluma MSA (Sonoma County)	$37,671	1,890
Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine MD (Orange County)	$37,329	12,170
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale MD (Los Angeles County)	$37,152	30,490
Vallejo MSA (Solano County)	$36,972	790
Redding MSA (Shasta County)	$36,962	500
Eastern Sierra-Mother Lode Region (Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, Inyo, Mariposa, Mono, and Tuolumne Counties)	$36,808	610
North Valley-Northern Mountains Region (Colusa, Glenn, Lassen, Modoc, Nevada, Plumas, Sierra, Siskiyou, Tehama, and Trinity Counties)	$36,736	500
Salinas MSA (Monterey County)	$36,550	1,620
Santa Cruz-Watsonville MSA (Santa Cruz County)	$36,345	880
San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad MSA (San Diego County)	$36,334	14,310
Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario MSA (Riverside and San Bernardino Counties)	$35,933	11,420
North Coast Region (Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, and Mendocino Counties)	$35,789	650
Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom MSA (El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, and Yolo Counties)	$35,789	5,760
Santa Maria-Santa Barbara MSA (Santa Barbara County)	$35,656	1,900
San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles MSA (San Luis Obispo County)	$35,615	1,400
Yuba City MSA (Sutter and Yuba Counties)	$35,368	290
Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura MSA (Ventura County)	$35,275	2,400
Chico MSA (Butte County)	$34,936	530
Fresno MSA (Fresno and Madera Counties)	$34,936	2,170
Stockton-Lodi MSA (San Joaquin County)	$34,854	1,290
Bakersfield-Delano MSA (Kern County)	$34,761	1,580
Visalia MSA (Tulare County)	$34,432	530
Hanford-Corcoran MSA (Kings County)	$34,339	100
Merced MSA (Merced County)	$34,320	330
Modesto MSA (Stanislaus County)	$34,320	1,200

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
Waiters and Waitresses	$36,994	469,390	+2.8%
Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers	$36,922	148,130	+10.2%
Food Servers, Nonrestaurant	$39,998	59,610	+11%
Fast Food and Counter Workers	$43,351	1,105,280	+9.9%
Hotel, Motel, and Resort Desk Clerks	$40,291	45,330	+2.5%
Locker Room, Coatroom, and Dressing Room Attendants	$47,739	7,030	+7.7%

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