Hiring/California/Healthcare Social Workers

Healthcare Social Workers hiring difficulty in Bakersfield, CA

Healthcare Social Workers in Bakersfield, CA is not scored. OEWS counts 310 jobs in this occupation here, which is under the 500-worker floor, so the page says: Too few workers locally to score reliably. This occupation has no row in the 2025–2035 projections extract used here, so both demand components sit at the bottom of the scale used for occupations that do. This metro has fewer of these workers than the national mix. The location quotient is 0.75 (BLS OEWS, May 2025). OEWS counts 0.910 of these jobs per 1,000 jobs in the metro. That count is shown here and is not a score input. At $77,450 a year, the metro median is above the U.S. figure of $67,880 and under the California median of $89,660 (BLS OEWS, May 2025). In California, the December 2025 job openings rate for all industries, statewide, was 3.6%, below the U.S. rate of 4.0% that same month. The statewide hiring pace was 35.3 days, shorter than the U.S. pace of 37.8 days (BLS JOLTS, total nonfarm). California has 538 designated Mental Health shortage-area IDs, 1.4 per 100,000 civilian residents (HRSA, September 30, 2026). That state figure is used because this occupation practices in mental health. OEWS counts 310 jobs in this occupation in the metro (May 2025). No workplace count is shown for Bakersfield. The provider-registry extract was built from Oklahoma and Texas city queries and stops at those metros. This set of 80 metros places Bakersfield at rank 76 for healthcare employment in practitioner and support occupations.