High paying production jobs in Yuba City, CA

Every production occupation below is ranked by its median annual wage in Yuba City, CA. Read the percentile range, not just the median: the gap between the 10th and 90th inside a single production job is usually wider than the gap between two different ones, so where you land in a field matters more than which field you pick.

Cost of living: prices in Yuba City, CA run 4.2% above the national average (2024), so a Yuba City, CA salary is worth about 0.96× its face value in national terms. That scales every wage here by the same factor — it changes what the numbers mean, not their order.

Local wage estimates are suppressed more often than state ones — BLS withholds any figure too few local employers report — so an occupation missing here simply has no published local estimate.

Wages: BLS OEWS, May 2025 · Cost of living: BEA regional price parities, 2024

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OccupationMedian, Yuba City, CA · Employed

1First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers$80,860
High school diploma or equivalent
$49,990 – $118,680130
2Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant and System Operators$78,520
High school diploma or equivalent
$52,380 – $111,630100
3Machinists$56,820
High school diploma or equivalent
$36,500 – $106,87030
4Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and Brazers$51,040
High school diploma or equivalent
$38,700 – $93,95090
5Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers$49,600
High school diploma or equivalent
$34,790 – $82,680100
6Coating, Painting, and Spraying Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders$48,340
High school diploma or equivalent
$36,720 – $73,93030
7Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators$48,230
High school diploma or equivalent
$35,590 – $59,960160
8Butchers and Meat Cutters$43,380
No formal educational credential
$34,690 – $60,38060
9Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing$39,670
High school diploma or equivalent
$38,060 – $46,920110
10Bakers$39,580
No formal educational credential
$36,750 – $50,17060
11Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders$38,230
High school diploma or equivalent
$35,990 – $52,760100
12Sawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Wood$37,910
High school diploma or equivalent
$37,910 – $55,43050

Bars run from the 10th to the 90th percentile; the middle half is shaded darker, and the tick is the median.

#	Occupation	MedianYuba City, CA	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$80,860	$49,990 – $118,680	130
2	Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant and System OperatorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$78,520	$52,380 – $111,630	100
3	MachinistsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$56,820	$36,500 – $106,870	30
4	Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and BrazersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$51,040	$38,700 – $93,950	90
5	Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and WeighersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$49,600	$34,790 – $82,680	100
6	Coating, Painting, and Spraying Machine Setters, Operators, and TendersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$48,340	$36,720 – $73,930	30
7	Miscellaneous Assemblers and FabricatorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$48,230	$35,590 – $59,960	160
8	Butchers and Meat CuttersNo formal educational credential	$43,380	$34,690 – $60,380	60
9	Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except SawingHigh school diploma or equivalent	$39,670	$38,060 – $46,920	110
10	BakersNo formal educational credential	$39,580	$36,750 – $50,170	60
11	Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and TendersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$38,230	$35,990 – $52,760	100
12	Sawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, WoodHigh school diploma or equivalent	$37,910	$37,910 – $55,430	50

Ranked among the occupations common enough to employ roughly one in every three thousand workers in Yuba City, CA. The rarer ones are real jobs — but a 1,190-person occupation at the top of a list answers a different question than the one most readers are asking.

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