Social worker salaries by state and employer
What social workers earn at each county, city and public hospital: the official pay range for each type of social worker next to what they actually took home. California is on the site now; more states follow as we collect their data.
Work in progress
Social worker pay in more states, as we collect the data
This page will compare social worker pay across states. For now California is the only state with data on the site. Each state publishes local government pay differently, so we add states one at a time, after checking their files. Georgia is next.
Until then, the California pages have everything we've published so far: every employer with 5 or more social workers, compared statewide.
Source for the California figure
Take-home is total wages of social workers who worked roughly the full year: those whose regular pay reached at least 90% of the bottom of their official range.
- State Controller's Office, Government Compensation in California, 2025: wages of every social worker position.