Exactly 2,160 of the 51,090 communications professionals employed in California, work in Saratoga. There has been a 9% decline in the number of communications professionals in Saratoga between the years 2006 and 2010. Overall employment in Saratoga has also decreased.

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As the number of communications professionals in Saratoga has shrunk, salaries for communications professionals have also decreased. Saratoga communications professionals made $48,032 per year, on average, in 2010. Four years earlier in 2006, the average salary for communications professionals in Saratoga was $49,456 per year. This decline is slower than the salary trend for all careers in Saratoga.

Communications professionals make a median salary of $43,430 per year in Saratoga. The difference in pay between the communications professionals in the lowest pay bracket and those in the highest pay bracket is approximately 181%. Those in the lowest 10% of the pay bracket earn less than $27,562 per year, while those in the highest 10% of the pay bracket earn more than $77,510 per year.

On average communications professional salaries in Saratoga are lower than salaries earned by their professional counterparts in related professions.

Many of Saratoga's communications professionals are graduates of the only accredited communications school in the city.

There is one degree and certificate program in communications offered by Saratoga's communications school.

In 2010 approximately 32 students graduated from communications courses.