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Bakers

SOC 51-3011 · 2024-2034

Mix and bake ingredients to produce breads, rolls, cookies, cakes, pies, pastries, or other baked goods.

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

The job this trains for

Typical pay in California
$44,104per year
Projected openings
52,930
Projected change
+8.8%
Usually needs
No formal educational credential

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.

  1. Monitoring
  2. Critical Thinking
  3. Judgment and Decision Making
  4. Active Listening
  5. Coordination
  6. Speaking

Pay by region

RegionTypical pay in CaliforniaProjected openings
San Rafael MD (Marin County)$47,234630
San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City MD (San Francisco and San Mateo Counties)$46,9994,440
Oakland-Fremont-Berkeley MD (Alameda and Contra Costa Counties)$46,7415,420
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara MSA (San Benito and Santa Clara Counties)$45,5022,560
Napa MSA (Napa County)$44,035330
Santa Rosa-Petaluma MSA (Sonoma County)$43,8401,140
Bakersfield-Delano MSA (Kern County)$43,6141,280
Eastern Sierra-Mother Lode Region (Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, Inyo, Mariposa, Mono, and Tuolumne Counties)$42,219210
North Coast Region (Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, and Mendocino Counties)$42,219350
Vallejo MSA (Solano County)$42,096610
Salinas MSA (Monterey County)$41,203700
Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom MSA (El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, and Yolo Counties)$40,7622,650
San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad MSA (San Diego County)$40,0854,470
Santa Maria-Santa Barbara MSA (Santa Barbara County)$39,941820
North Valley-Northern Mountains Region (Colusa, Glenn, Lassen, Modoc, Nevada, Plumas, Sierra, Siskiyou, Tehama, and Trinity Counties)$39,756260
Chico MSA (Butte County)$39,715200
El Centro MSA (Imperial County)$39,674110
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale MD (Los Angeles County)$39,48816,970
Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario MSA (Riverside and San Bernardino Counties)$39,4695,580
Santa Cruz-Watsonville MSA (Santa Cruz County)$39,326580
San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles MSA (San Luis Obispo County)$39,274690
Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine MD (Orange County)$39,2136,110
Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura MSA (Ventura County)$38,5361,120
Fresno MSA (Fresno and Madera Counties)$38,4231,250
Hanford-Corcoran MSA (Kings County)$38,13580
Merced MSA (Merced County)$37,951170
Modesto MSA (Stanislaus County)$37,951810
Stockton-Lodi MSA (San Joaquin County)$37,951830
Redding MSA (Shasta County)$37,910230
Visalia MSA (Tulare County)$37,602550

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
Food Batchmakers$42,62117,970+7.9%
Cooks, Restaurant$46,017271,050+18.5%
Food Cooking Machine Operators and Tenders$45,7613,1900%
Chefs and Head Cooks$66,13443,670+11%
Food and Tobacco Roasting, Baking, and Drying Machine Operators and Tenders$46,6412,0900%
Cooks, Short Order$44,01743,610-2.3%

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