The 100 Highest Paying Jobs In California For 2024

Ever wonder who gets paid the most? Or how much your dentist makes for all the pain they put you through?

We had that same burning desire to know more about the highest paid professions in California. And if you can’t tell by that sentence, we’re a bit of what you’d call data nerds.

After the data science team did a thorough analysis of the data, we discovered that Hospitalist Physician are the highest paid people in California.

Here’s a quick look at the top ten highest paying jobs in California:

How we determined the highest paid jobs in California For 2024

To create our salary estimates, Zippia starts with data published in publicly available sources such as the most recently released data on March 2024 from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), Foreign Labor Certification Data Center (FLC), Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and others. The data science team then supplements that data by continuously scanning through millions of job postings each day to find published salaries. We match these published salaries to the companies, locations, and job titles in other datasets. Finally, the data science team calculates a weighted average of these inputs to produce an estimated salary for the particular job title in California.

In total, the team looked at the salary data set for all 3585 jobs in California in order to identify those that get paid the most.

Detailed List Of Highest Paying Jobs In California

Rank	Job Title	Average Salary	Entry Level Salary	# Of People
1	Hospitalist Physician	$235,100	$190,000	1,584
2	Primary Care Pediatrician	$224,019	$174,000	3,216
3	Physician-Pediatrician	$219,303	$168,000	1,543
4	Board Certified Orthodontist	$213,070	$159,000	2,492
5	Staff Psychiatrist	$212,643	$159,000	4,537
6	Medical Director	$206,896	$154,000	5,041
7	Md Physician-Dermatologist	$206,712	$150,000	1,586
8	Chief Medical Officer	$203,140	$149,000	5,371
9	Pulmonary Physician	$200,669	$143,000	1,521
10	General Surgery Physician Assistant	$199,736	$141,000	5,935
11	Vice President/managing Director	$199,702	$144,000	3,357
12	Vice President, Corporate Development	$198,553	$143,000	3,344
13	Senior Director, Product	$197,390	$149,000	9,013
14	Senior Vice President, Engineering	$196,971	$143,000	4,667
15	Vice President, Field Operations	$196,959	$139,000	6,429
16	Pain Management Physician	$196,495	$137,000	4,612
17	President/chief Executive Officer	$196,197	$138,000	7,302
18	Obstetrics Gynecology Physician	$196,069	$137,000	1,522
19	Anesthesiologist, Pain Management Specialist	$195,703	$138,000	3,261
20	Vice President, Products & Marketing	$195,473	$144,000	7,592
21	Operator And Truck Driver	$194,841	$137,000	17,158
22	Director, Product Engineering	$194,330	$145,000	5,663
23	Senior Vice President	$193,827	$138,000	3,983
24	Finance Services Director	$193,816	$147,000	8,105
25	Anesthesiologist/physician	$193,227	$135,000	1,547
26	Senior Director Of Engineering	$193,220	$139,000	4,753
27	Executive Vice President Marketing	$192,928	$135,000	5,703
28	Vice President Worldwide Sales	$192,833	$136,000	4,235
29	Physician Extender	$192,818	$133,000	2,674
30	Group Creative Director	$192,301	$133,000	1,042
31	Director Of Software Development	$191,937	$140,000	4,949
32	Vice President, Product Management	$191,580	$140,000	13,302
33	President & Chief Operating Officer	$191,288	$133,000	4,457
34	Senior Director, Product Marketing	$190,840	$140,000	8,040
35	Senior Vice President Of Marketing	$190,804	$134,000	5,889
36	Director, Software Quality Assurance	$190,785	$136,000	5,059
37	Family Physician	$190,092	$132,000	1,834
38	Global Vice President Of Sales	$189,951	$134,000	5,114
39	Associate Medical Director	$189,695	$133,000	4,902
40	Senior Vice President, Sales	$189,575	$134,000	5,236
41	Internal Medicine Physician	$188,523	$132,000	2,192
42	Family Medicine Physician	$188,521	$132,000	2,003
43	Director Of Manufacturing Engineering	$188,072	$137,000	5,542
44	Physician, Ophthalmologist	$187,951	$130,000	1,510
45	Senior Director, Product Management	$187,839	$138,000	12,358
46	Orthopaedic Physician Assistant	$187,665	$129,000	1,530
47	Vice President Information Systems	$187,531	$132,000	5,795
48	Director Of Enterprise Sales	$187,202	$131,000	4,358
49	Allergy Physician	$186,892	$129,000	1,515
50	President Of Operations	$186,322	$128,000	4,666
51	Chief Executive Officer/chief Technology Officer	$186,262	$134,000	3,392
52	Marketing Vice President	$185,824	$133,000	5,865
53	Vice President Of National Accounts	$185,702	$131,000	4,990
54	Director Of Service & Engineering	$185,680	$134,000	2,988
55	President And General Manager	$185,611	$128,000	12,458
56	Medical Consultant	$185,372	$128,000	4,918
57	Physician	$185,206	$127,000	1,832
58	Acute Care Physician	$185,205	$128,000	4,170
59	Clinical Psychiatrist	$184,884	$127,000	3,764
60	Professor	$184,725	$127,000	1,108
61	Primary Care Physician	$184,723	$127,000	4,211
62	Resident Physician In Radiology	$184,568	$126,000	1,761
63	Vice President, Consulting Services	$184,556	$135,000	4,693
64	Executive Director, Information Technology	$184,347	$130,000	5,162
65	Senior Vice President-Operations	$184,152	$126,000	5,046
66	Staff Physician	$183,803	$127,000	1,607
67	Director Of Applications Engineering	$183,301	$131,000	3,217
68	Interventional Pain Physician	$183,294	$125,000	1,656
69	Family Practice Physician	$183,206	$128,000	2,117
70	Associate Professor, Physician	$182,910	$124,000	1,886
71	Product Management Director	$182,836	$134,000	11,724
72	Public Health Physician	$182,787	$123,000	4,685
73	Geriatric Physician	$182,537	$124,000	1,518
74	Senior Software Engineer Manager	$181,942	$132,000	15,744
75	Director Of Quality & Engineering	$181,848	$130,000	6,162
76	Director Of Testing	$181,333	$127,000	1,032
77	Vice President-Products	$181,021	$126,000	7,982
78	Senior Physician	$180,990	$123,000	1,565
79	Executive Vice President	$180,833	$122,000	3,843
80	Vice President, Merchandising	$180,767	$127,000	2,645
81	Director Of Systems Engineering	$180,615	$126,000	4,229
82	Family Practice Md	$180,601	$120,000	1,411
83	Nuclear Medicine Physician	$180,562	$122,000	1,808
84	Executive Vice President Of Sales	$179,762	$129,000	4,922
85	Vice President Of Operations And Engineering	$179,651	$128,000	4,670
86	Engineering Director	$179,437	$126,000	3,905
87	Sports Medicine Physician	$179,166	$120,000	1,746
88	Vice President & General Manager	$179,060	$123,000	10,936
89	Chief Architect	$179,049	$125,000	5,077
90	Pain Medicine Physician	$179,024	$120,000	1,702
91	Physician-Internist	$178,927	$120,000	1,523
92	Consultant And Sales Representative	$178,636	$130,000	10,789
93	Engineering And Operations Director	$178,577	$131,000	4,441
94	Group Product Manager	$178,165	$129,000	9,274
95	Human Resources Vice President	$178,079	$126,000	4,014
96	Software Director	$177,860	$124,000	11,363
97	Director Of Global Sales	$177,317	$123,000	4,457
98	Vice President Of Communication	$176,960	$121,000	3,149
99	Senior Director, Operations	$176,426	$125,000	4,097
100	Director, Global Marketing	$176,367	$124,000	4,979

Editor’s Note: Article updated for 2024. This is our sixth time ranking the highest paying jobs in California

Author

Chris Kolmar

Chris Kolmar is a co-founder of Zippia and the editor-in-chief of the Zippia career advice blog. He has hired over 50 people in his career, been hired five times, and wants to help you land your next job. His research has been featured on the New York Times, Thrillist, VOX, The Atlantic, and a host of local news. More recently, he's been quoted on USA Today, BusinessInsider, and CNBC.

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