Orange County · California
Anaheim, CA jobs and wages
Who works here, what they earn, and which industries carry the local economy — Census ACS estimates for the city itself, not the wider metro.
Quick answer
Workers in Anaheim, CA earn a median of $40,835 a year, 8% below the national median of $44,587. Unemployment is 5.5% against 5.2% nationally, and education, health care & social assistance is the largest employer at 20.8% of jobs.
- Median earnings
- $40,835#62 of 94 metros
- Unemployment rate
- 5.5%US 5.2%
- Labor force participation
- 66.8%US 63.5%
- People employed
- 174,640Civilian employed, age 16+
What Anaheim does for a living
Share of the civilian employed population by industry, largest first.
- Education, health care & social assistance20.8%
- Manufacturing12.5%
- Arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodation & food12.4%
- Professional, scientific & management11.7%
- Retail trade10.2%
- Construction7.4%
- Finance, insurance & real estate5.9%
- Transportation, warehousing & utilities5.3%
- Other services, except public administration4.8%
- Public administration3.6%
- Wholesale trade2.9%
- Information1.5%
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing, hunting & mining1%
Related data for Anaheim
Earnings only mean something next to what things cost.
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates
Tables B23025, B20002 and C24030, 2019-2023 ACS 5-year. Industry shares combine the male and female columns of C24030 and are rounded, so they may not total exactly 100%.