Best jobs in Stockton, CA
The best-scoring occupations in the Stockton-Lodi, CA metro area, ranked on local pay plus national growth and opportunity.
Wages here are local to Stockton, 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)
#
Occupation
MEDIAN, LOCAL
P25–P75
Growth
Employed
Open/yr
Score
Showing top 25 of 793 scored occupations — show all 793show top 25
#
Occupation
MEDIAN, LOCAL
Growth
Score
254
$73,970
+3.7%
25
282
—†
-13.7%
24†
336
$75,140
+0.3%
22
339
$66,910
+3.1%
22
378
$53,770
-1.6%
20
418
$83,810
+1.9%
19
452
$53,370
+6.3%
18
520
Electrical, Electronic, and Electromechanical Assemblers, Except Coil Winders, Tapers, and Finishers
$51,120
+4.6%
16
536
$65,030
+2.3%
16
642
$54,200
+2.0%
13
684
—†
-19.6%
12†
689
$53,940
-4.3%
11
715
—†
-1.1%
11†
728
$46,390
+1.2%
10
734
$49,540
-12.1%
10
745
$47,120
-3.8%
10
775
$44,160
-12.0%
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Live jobs in Stockton, 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.