Best jobs in Oxnard, CA
The best-scoring occupations in the Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA metro area, ranked on local pay plus national growth and opportunity.
Wages here are local to Oxnard, CA (OEWS May 2025). Projected growth and openings are national BLS projections — not a local forecast.
How this ranking is scored
score = .40·pay + .30·growth + .20·employment + .10·openings
Each factor is scaled to the strongest occupation on this list, then weighted and summed. Weights differ by list type. Full methodology.
Wages — OEWS May 2025 (metro)
Growth & openings — EP 2024–34 (national)
How Oxnard, CA pay compares to the nation
Median vs U.S. median · scale ±10%
$535,800 vs $414,010 · +29.4%
$34,320 vs $35,800 · -4.1%
−10%U.S. MEDIAN+10%
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Occupation
MEDIAN, LOCAL
P25–P75
Growth
Employed
Open/yr
Score
Showing top 25 of 793 scored occupations — show all 793show top 25
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Occupation
MEDIAN, LOCAL
Growth
Score
268
$77,300
+0.3%
20
273
$64,670
+3.1%
20
288
$54,170
-1.6%
19
332
$101,740
+1.9%
18
372
$59,590
+3.7%
17
392
$55,880
+6.3%
16
422
Electrical, Electronic, and Electromechanical Assemblers, Except Coil Winders, Tapers, and Finishers
$47,070
+4.6%
15
519
$62,930
+2.3%
13
593
$79,810
-13.7%
11
673
$47,500
+2.0%
9
696
—†
-19.6%
9†
726
$45,160
+1.2%
8
727
—†
-1.1%
8†
736
$47,910
-3.8%
8
737
$47,410
-12.1%
8
744
$48,570
-4.3%
7
757
$48,320
-13.6%
7
760
$44,580
-12.0%
7
Live jobs in Oxnard, CA
Growth and openings are national (BLS EP 2024–34) — state-level projections are not in this data pull, so the same national figure is used for every place and we say so rather than guess. † local wage not published for this cell — the score uses the state value and the pay column shows a dash.