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Salaries in California
The average salary in California is $159.3–235.6K per year, based on 154 jobs. Jobs in California pay 17% above the average salary of $136.6–200.6K for jobs listed on LumiJobs. Browse salary data across 8 locations in California.
Median salary
$193.4K
Based on 154 jobs · 17% more than the average salary on LumiJobs
25th percentile
$130K
Average
$197.5K
75th percentile
$276.5K
Cities with salary data in California
Average salaries across 8 cities in California, ranked by average salary.
Santa Clara, CA
Avg. $167.1–280.1K · 5 jobs
San Francisco, CA
Avg. $174.1–262.6K · 56 jobs
Palo Alto, CA
Avg. $163–244.7K · 5 jobs
San Jose, CA
Avg. $159.8–229.5K · 17 jobs
Mountain View, CA
Avg. $143.8–242.2K · 5 jobs
Torrance, CA
Avg. $155–211.5K · 5 jobs
Sunnyvale, CA
Avg. $145.2–214.5K · 10 jobs
Los Angeles, CA
Avg. $144.7–203.5K · 9 jobs
Top paying titles in California
Highest paying job titles in California, ranked by average salary.
Software Engineering
Avg. $139.3–200.4K · 225 jobs
Backend Engineering
Avg. $163.4–231K · 90 jobs
Machine Learning Engineering
Avg. $149.8–220.7K · 63 jobs
Backend Development
Avg. $129.5–188.6K · 60 jobs
AI Engineering
Avg. $138.5–201.3K · 53 jobs
Full Stack Development
Avg. $132.5–191.2K · 53 jobs
Cloud Engineering
Avg. $138.7–198.1K · 49 jobs
Software Engineer
Avg. $140.2–218.4K · 45 jobs
Machine Learning Engineer
Avg. $148.4–230.4K · 41 jobs
Senior Software Engineer
Avg. $141–204.1K · 40 jobs
Top paying skills in California
Highest paying skills in California, ranked by average salary.
Python
Avg. $141.9–208.2K · 287 jobs
AWS
Avg. $143.7–208.9K · 162 jobs
CI/CD
Avg. $136–198.5K · 126 jobs
Kubernetes
Avg. $144–210.6K · 116 jobs
Java
Avg. $134.7–197K · 114 jobs
Machine Learning
Avg. $152.2–225.8K · 99 jobs
Docker
Avg. $132.5–195.5K · 95 jobs
TypeScript
Avg. $153.1–206.8K · 92 jobs
SQL
Avg. $132.4–180.5K · 91 jobs
C++
Avg. $135.3–195.5K · 82 jobs
Top paying companies
Highest paying companies, ranked by average salary.
CCiti
Avg. $130.9–186.6K · 15 jobs
CCapital One
Avg. $189.8–227.4K · 12 jobs
BBright Vision Technologies
Avg. $95.9–141.7K · 11 jobs
CCACI, INC.-FEDERAL
Avg. $93.6–199.2K · 9 jobs
BBooz Allen Hamilton
Avg. $89.3–203.4K · 8 jobs
GGuidehouse
Avg. $109.3–181.9K · 7 jobs
California salary FAQs
All salary figures are normalized to USD annual equivalents. Averages are based on published jobs with salary data and filtered for statistical outliers.