Exactly 5,310 of the 91,780 human services professionals employed in California, work in San Diego. There has been a 3% decline in the number of human services professionals in San Diego between the years 2006 and 2010. As the employment for human services professionals in San Diego has decreased, overall employment in San Diego has increased.

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In San Diego, salaries for human services professionals have increased. In 2010 San Diego human services professionals earned an average yearly salary of $45,804. Human services professionals in San Diego made a yearly average salary of $40,376, four years earlier in 2006. This growth is slower than the salary trend for all careers in San Diego.

Human services professionals in San Diego make a median yearly salary of $42,854. The difference in pay between the human services professionals in the lowest pay bracket and those in the highest pay bracket is approximately 162%. Those in the lowest 10% of the pay bracket earn less than $27,246 per year, while those in the highest 10% of the pay bracket earn more than $71,474 per year.

Human services professional salaries in San Diego are, on average, lower than salaries earned for professionals in related fields.

Many of San Diego's human services professionals are graduates of one of the 4 accredited human services schools in the city.

San Diego's human services schools offer 7 human services degree and certificate programs.

In 2010 approximately 292 students completed human services courses.