Civil Engineers
Yuba City, CA metropolitan area. Estimated employment 460.
Where you sit in the distribution
That is the median — half of civil engineers in Yuba City earn more.
$119,990 in Yuba City buys what $115,100 buys across the country as a whole.
Yuba City's regional price parity is 104.2 — above the national average, so the nominal figure overstates what it buys. Adjusted figures for other metros are in the nearby-metros table below.
The same job, elsewhere in California
Adjusted figures apply each metro's regional price parity, so the columns are directly comparable.
| Metro area | Median | Adjusted | RPP | vs. Yuba City |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| San Jose | $130,280 | $118,000 | 110.4 | +2.5% |
| San Francisco | $130,160 | $112,600 | 115.6 | −2.2% |
| Sacramento | $130,150 | $122,000 | 106.7 | +6.0% |
| Redding | $126,000 | $125,100 | 100.7 | +8.7% |
| Napa | $123,440 | $109,700 | 112.6 | −4.7% |
| Vallejo | $122,510 | $112,900 | 108.5 | −1.9% |
| Salinas | $122,160 | $112,000 | 109.0 | −2.7% |
| Yuba City This page | $119,990 | $115,100 | 104.2 | — |
Price parity and difference against Yuba City are in the full table on wider screens.
Nominal against real
The same median, once as published and once restated in 2025 dollars.
Published pay rose 20.6% over the five years to 2025. Adjusted for inflation it is roughly flat — civil engineers in Yuba City earn about what they earned in 2021. The two lines meet at the right edge by construction, since 2025 is the base year.
How this page was made
- Wage data
- Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 release. Public domain.
- Price parity
- Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Price Parities, 2024.
- Inflation
- Real figures deflate by CPI-U annual averages (BLS, all items, US city average).
- Employment
- 460 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
- Occupation
- SOC 17-2051, Civil Engineers. Mapped to our taxonomy as civil-engineers.
Percentiles are reported exactly as released and are never interpolated between published values. We take no payment from employers, recruiters or anyone else for how any figure is presented.