California / Transportation Planner
Role across California
Transportation Planner
Operate vehicles or heavy equipment safely to move people or materials, and perform routine checks.
155 people hold the Transportation Planner role across 1 department in California, with a median total compensation of $68,842. Among 9 jurisdictions where this role is reported, California ranks #6 by median pay.
- Employees
- 155
- Median pay
- $68,842
- Departments
- 1
- Cross-jurisdiction
- #6 of 9
Compared with the local labor market
Transportation Planner pay vs. California
Across all employers in California, the median wage for Social Scientists and Related Workers, All Other — about 2,970 people — is $97,900. California pays a median base salary of $70,230 for this role, 28% below that figure — about the 14th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
Where California sits in the local pay range
The bar is the range of annual wages for Social Scientists and Related Workers, All Other across every employer in California, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows California’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Social Scientists and Related Workers, All Other — about 37,100 people — is $101,110. California’s median base salary is 31% below that national figure, about the 14th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.
Local and national wages differ for reasons beyond how well a job pays — cost of living, the mix of employers, and local demand for the occupation all move the California range relative to the national one.
Computed over the 135 of 155 people in this role paid at least $25,000in base salary. The rest are part-year or part-time records, whose actual pay isn’t comparable to a full-time annual wage.
Median total compensation for this role at California is $68,842, which includes overtime and employer-paid benefits. The benchmark above excludes both, so total compensation is deliberately not compared against it.
Benchmark: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025). BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) covers all employers in the area — private, non-profit, and government alike — so this is a comparison against the whole local labor market for the occupation, not against private-sector pay. OEWS wages are straight-time pay and exclude overtime, shift differentials, and employer-paid benefits, so the government figure shown here is base pay on the same basis. Total compensation is not comparable to it. Job titles are matched to the closest standard occupation, so the comparison is between similar work rather than an identical job classification.
Compare jurisdictions
Transportation Planner pay in other jurisdictions
Where Transportation Planners are paid most
Median total compensation for comparable Transportation Plannerroles in other jurisdictions (highest first). Titles are matched by normalized name across sources, not by identical job classification, and pay is not cost-of-living adjusted. Each bar links to that jurisdiction’s page for this role.