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Career Information for Child Care Workers in California

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Fast Facts for Child Care Workers in California

  • Cities with highest percentage of jobs relative to population: Redding, Yuba City, and Merced
  • Cities with lowest percentage of jobs relative to population: Santa Barbara, Santa Ana, and Stockton
  • Cities with the highest absolute number of jobs: Riverside, San Diego, and Sacramento

Salaries for Child Care Workers in California

  • Metro areas with the highest median salaries: San Francisco, Napa, and Santa Rosa. (See table at bottom of page)

Schools for Child Care Workers in California are listed below.

Selected Online Schools for Child Care Workers in California

Ashworth College
Online

Ashworth College (AU) provides online and campus based classes, in a flexible capacity so learning goes at the students pace during their free time.

  • Programs: Child Care Career Skills, Child Day Care
  • Degrees/Course Work: Diploma

Stratford Career Institute
Online

Career training in several fields. Offered in a distance-learning format.

  • Programs: Child Day Care Management
  • Degrees/Course Work: Diploma

California Child Care Worker Schools

School NameCampusHighest AwardEnrolled
Butte CollegeOrovilleAssociate12,228
University of La VerneLa VerneDoctorate & First Professional7,370

Job Popularity in Metro Areas for Child Care Workers

The map below shows job statistics for the career type by metro area, for California. A table below the map shows job popularity and salaries across the state.

Metro Areas Rated for Popularity (as of 2008) for:
Child Care Workers

Listed below are metro areas ranked by the popularity of jobs for Child Care Workers relative to the population of the city, as of 2008. Salary data was obtained from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

A Relative Popularity of 1.0 means that the city has an average number of the particular job, for its population, compared to the rest of the US. Higher numbers mean proportionally more jobs of that type.
Metro AreaJobsSalary
(2008)
Relative
Popularity

CALIFORNIA

   
Redding660$22,9802.5
Yuba City230$23,1901.6
Merced340$22,5101.5
Modesto1,030$21,2301.5
Sacramento4,880$22,1601.2
San Luis Obispo500$21,2901.2
Riverside6,470$21,7301.1
Salinas740$21,1801.1
Napa270$27,1101.1
Hanford110$19,6801
Bakersfield1,170$22,4401
Santa Cruz360$22,9401
Fresno1,420$21,2401
Santa Rosa750$25,1201
Oxnard1,220$23,9400.9
Chico260$21,1200.9
San Diego5,260$23,3900.9
Vallejo400$22,3500.8
Oakland3,470$24,1100.8
San Francisco3,130$29,9700.7
San Jose2,680$24,4400.7
Visalia350$20,3800.6
Stockton530$23,7700.6
Santa Ana3,870$24,4800.6
Santa Barbara380$22,9500.5
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