Fort Bragg water operator salary, 2025
Fort Bragg is a city in Mendocino County. 6 people worked as water operators for Fort Bragg in 2025. Fewer than 5 of them worked the full year, so there is no average that wouldn't describe individual people. The official range for its water operator titles runs from $60,632 to $81,245.
What does Fort Bragg pay its water operators?
Official pay range1
$60,632 to $81,245
from the lowest entry salary to the top of the highest water operator title
Average total pay, full-year water operators1
Not reported
- Water operators
- 6
- 3 of them worked the full year
- Starting salary
- $60,632
- bottom of the Treatment Plant Op 2 range
- Median total pay
- Not reported
- the middle water operator: half earned more, half less
- Average pay rank
- Not reported
- too few full-year staff to rank
What does each water operator title at Fort Bragg pay?
Each bar is the official range for one title, lowest first. The dot marks the average total pay of full-year staff in that title, where at least 5 people stand behind it.1
- Treatment Plant Op 2fewer than 5
- Treatment Plant Op IIfewer than 5
- Treatment Plant Op IIIfewer than 5
official range average total pay, full year. "Fewer than 5" means too few full-year people in that title to show.
What do water operators earn around Fort Bragg?
Average total pay of full-year water operators across Mendocino County and across California. Fort Bragg's own average isn't shown: fewer than 5 of its water operators worked the full year.1
- All employers in Mendocino County$93,134
- All employers in California$123,726
Full-year water operators across Mendocino County earned an average of $93,134 in 2025, $30,592 less than the California average.
Pension and health cover at Fort Bragg
As reported by the city. Contributions are what the employer paid per full-year water operator, on top of wages.1
- Pension formula
- 2% at 62
- the most common formula among Fort Bragg's water operators
- Employer pension contribution
- Not reported
- average per year
- Health, dental and vision
- Not reported
- average paid by the employer per year
Questions about water operator pay at Fort Bragg
Why is there no average water operator salary for Fort Bragg?
6 people worked as water operators for Fort Bragg in 2025, but fewer than 5 of them worked the full year. Every figure on Public Paycheck covers at least 5 people, so none describes one person.
What is the pay range for a water operator at Fort Bragg?
The official range across Fort Bragg's water operator titles runs from $60,632 to $81,245 in 2025. For comparison, full-year water operators across Mendocino County earned an average of $93,134.
What pension do water operators at Fort Bragg get?
The most common pension formula among Fort Bragg's water operators is 2% at 62, as reported by the city.
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Sources for the Fort Bragg figures
Every person who held a water operator position at Fort Bragg at any point in 2025 counts toward the headcount. Pay figures use only people who worked roughly the full year: those whose regular pay reached at least 90% of the bottom of their official range. Total pay is gross wages before tax, including overtime, lump sums and other pay. Averages lead; the median total pay is the middle person's, with half above and half below, and is less pulled by a few people with a lot of overtime. Every figure covers at least 5 people.
- State Controller's Office, Government Compensation in California, 2025: positions, official pay ranges, wages, pension formula and employer contributions as reported by Fort Bragg.