California · 2025 pay

How much do California State Controller's Office employees make?

Name: California State Controller's Office employee pay 2025
Creator: PublicPayData

$86,483typical pay, counting everyone paid in 2025

$64,191 – $106,387what most people earned

Includes everyone paid during 2025, including part-year and seasonal workers. The source doesn't show who worked the full year.

California State Controller's Office publishes pay by position without employee names, so there is no name search here.

Common jobs: Analyst II Range a Analyst I Range C Supervisor I

✓ Official data from California State Controller's OfficeMatches the agency's latest releasesco.ca.gov ↗

How is pay spread across workers?

A year of pay for a lower-paid, typical and higher-paid worker (counting everyone paid), and the top earner, split into regular pay, overtime and extra pay.

$65,475

$86,826

$106,762

$425,902

Lower-paid workerearns more than 1 in 4 coworkers

Typical workerright in the middle

Higher-paid workerearns more than 3 in 4 coworkers

Highest paidone person

Regular payOvertimeExtra pay

Is pay going up?

Yes. Typical pay went from $79,377 in 2022 to $86,483 in 2025 (+9%).

Typical payNumber of people paidTotal payroll

What changed since 2024

+3.4%Typical pay went up from $83,662 to $86,483.
+131,622 people were paid in 2025, compared with 1,609 in 2024.
+9%Since 2022, typical pay has gone from $79,377 to $86,483, while the number of people paid went up from 1,507 to 1,622.

The next update is expected in late 2027.

Pay slip · 2025

A typical worker's year

California State Controller's Office

4years of
official data
2022–2025

Average pay of people in the middle of the pay range
Regular pay	$83,451
Overtime	$724
Extra pay	$2,651
Total for the year	$86,826

Average of the 80 workers in the middle of the pay range. Does not include benefits.

Official source: California State Controller's Office (Government Compensation in California), sco.ca.gov ↗
Matches the agency's latest release

Pay by job

Jobs held by 5 or more people in 2025.

Job	People	Typical pay	Most earn	Since 2024
Analyst II Range a	153	$77,430	$70k – $83k	new
Analyst I Range C	107	$61,277	$54k – $67k	new
Supervisor I	95	$96,144	$89k – $102k	new
Associate Accounting Analyst Range a	95	$84,701	$75k – $89k	▲ 1.6%
Information Technology Specialist I Range C	92	$114,691	$99k – $119k	▲ 2.8%
Associate Management Auditor Range a	71	$92,434	$77k – $98k	▲ 1.7%
Analyst II Range L	53	$85,889	$81k – $90k	new
Accounting Analyst Range C	52	$62,449	$56k – $66k	▲ 5.8%
Staff Management Auditor Specialist State Controller's Office	50	$101,169	$94k – $104k	▲ 2.8%
Financial Accountant I	44	$93,017	$90k – $103k	▼ 2.5%
Supervisor II	40	$109,049	$103k – $110k	new
Senior Management Auditor	36	$120,518	$114k – $124k	▲ 3.3%
Information Technology Specialist I Range B	34	$102,815	$90k – $108k	▲ 3.0%
Information Technology Specialist II Range L	33	$133,001	$124k – $138k	▲ 1.5%
Information Technology Supervisor II	31	$126,178	$115k – $130k	▲ 2.1%
Senior Personnel Specialist Range a	30	$85,019	$77k – $89k	▲ 2.6%
Senior Payroll Specialist	29	$87,538	$83k – $96k	▲ 4.8%
Payroll Specialist Range D	27	$73,992	$64k – $79k	▼ 1.6%
Information Technology Specialist I Range N	26	$120,037	$114k – $125k	▲ 1.9%
Information Technology Specialist II Range a	23	$126,659	$118k – $128k	▲ 3.1%
Financial Accountant II	21	$108,140	$100k – $114k	▲ 7.3%
Program Technician II	21	$52,670	$44k – $56k	▲ 8.9%
Financial Accountant III	20	$131,261	$121k – $135k	▲ 4.1%
Manager II	18	$120,744	$110k – $124k	new
Accountant Trainee Range a	18	$50,692	$11k – $54k	▲ 109.5%
Accounting Administrator I Specialist Range a	17	$90,492	$86k – $93k	▲ 6.6%
Accounting Administrator I Supervisor	16	$99,818	$97k – $103k	▲ 4.1%
Senior Claim Auditor	16	$56,450	$49k – $59k	▲ 4.8%
Information Technology Manager I	15	$132,356	$127k – $143k	▲ 3.1%
Personnel Specialist Range D	15	$70,232	$68k – $77k	▲ 2.7%
Office Technician Typing Range a	15	$44,513	$40k – $51k	▲ 19.4%
Program Technician III Range a	14	$49,992	$24k – $58k	▲ 10.8%
Staff Services Management Auditor Range C	13	$77,685	$73k – $82k	▲ 6.2%
C.e.a. Range B	12	$171,673	$156k – $178k	▲ 2.6%
Accounting Administrator II	12	$108,471	$108k – $109k	▲ 2.7%
Information Technology Manager II	10	$154,725	$147k – $159k	▲ 0.6%
C.e.a. Range a	10	$146,498	$139k – $167k	▲ 0.4%
Supervising Management Auditor	10	$136,712	$133k – $138k	▲ 3.7%
Information Technology Technician Range C	10	$69,107	$60k – $76k	▼ 0.2%
Mailing Machines Operator II	10	$63,673	$60k – $66k	▲ 16.6%
Office Technician General Range a	10	$52,195	$44k – $53k	▲ 3.9%
Program Technician Range a	10	$40,883	$8k – $49k	▲ 1.7%
Information Technology Specialist I Range a	9	$90,932	$81k – $93k	▲ 23.2%
Key Data Operator Range B	9	$48,209	$42k – $51k	▼ 0.4%
Information Technology Associate Range D	7	$98,414	$92k – $102k	▲ 9.1%
Staff Services Management Auditor Range B	7	$54,832	$34k – $58k	new
Financial Accountant IV	6	$144,299	$131k – $146k	▲ 7.5%
Payroll Officer State Controllers Office	6	$104,431	$100k – $165k	▲ 3.4%
Information Technology Specialist I Range M	6	$103,140	$87k – $114k	▼ 1.3%
Information Technology Associate Range C	6	$76,002	$74k – $83k	▲ 2.2%
Principal Claim Auditor	6	$70,778	$68k – $71k	▲ 2.1%
Digital Print Operator II	6	$57,764	$45k – $60k	▲ 0.6%
Analyst I Range B	6	$49,218	$47k – $58k	new
Attorney III Range a	5	$135,812	$46k – $136k	▲ 18.4%
Staff Services Management Auditor Range a	5	$14,094	$12k – $21k	▼ 70.3%

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How many people earn what

Under $10k24
$10k – $30k54
$30k – $50k109
$50k – $70k295
$70k – $90k416
$90k – $110k377
$110k – $150k304
$150k or more43

Includes part-time and seasonal workers, which is why many earn under $10k.

Common questions

How much does a California State Controller's Office employee make?

The typical employee was paid $86,483 in 2025: half of the 1,622 people paid earned more, half earned less. Most earned between $64,191 and $106,387.

Does this include benefits like health insurance or pension?

No. It is the pay people received: regular salary or wages (94.6% of all pay), overtime (1.1%) and extra pay such as allowances, longevity and severance (3.4%).

Where does this data come from, and when is it updated?

From California State Controller's Office (Government Compensation in California) (sco.ca.gov). Our figures match the agency's latest release; the next update is expected in late 2027.

"Typical pay" is the median: half earn more, half earn less. "Most earn" is the middle half of workers. Figures are calculated by PublicPayData from the official dataset; 0 records with $0 or negative pay are left out. How we calculate this · Corrections & removals