California · 2025 pay
How much do San Benito County employees make?
$68,875typical pay, counting everyone paid in 2025
$42,857 – $96,667what 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: Office Assistant IIEligibility Specialist IISheriff's Deputy
✓ 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.
$42,677
$69,145
$97,621
$451,754
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 $46,214 in 2022 to $68,875 in 2025 (+49%).
What changed since 2024
- +13.2%Typical pay went up from $60,869 to $68,875.
- −40688 people were paid in 2025, compared with 728 in 2024.
- +49%Since 2022, typical pay has gone from $46,214 to $68,875, while the number of people paid went down from 749 to 688.
The next update is expected in late 2027.
Pay slip · 2025
A typical worker's year
San Benito County
official data
2022–2025
| Regular pay | $64,958 |
|---|---|
| Overtime | $1,350 |
| Extra pay | $2,837 |
| Total for the year | $69,145 |
Average of the 34 workers in the middle of the pay range. Does not include benefits.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Office Assistant II | 29 | $46,827 | $42k – $50k | ▲ 27.7% |
| Eligibility Specialist II | 19 | $58,594 | $57k – $71k | ▲ 1.2% |
| Sheriff's Deputy | 18 | $122,656 | $96k – $136k | ▲ 6.8% |
| Correctional Officer II | 16 | $103,032 | $94k – $118k | ▲ 29.2% |
| Temporary Position 960 | 15 | $26,256 | $21k – $35k | ▲ 8.8% |
| Student Intern- Bh | 14 | $5,074 | $5k – $7k | new |
| Staff Analyst | 12 | $101,838 | $96k – $104k | ▲ 8.6% |
| Mental Health Case Manager II | 12 | $77,455 | $74k – $81k | ▲ 4.5% |
| Deputy Probation Officer | 12 | $76,430 | $70k – $79k | ▲ 15.7% |
| Eligibility Specialist III | 11 | $72,357 | $68k – $76k | ▲ 25.6% |
| Staff Services Specialist | 11 | $62,096 | $51k – $72k | ▼ 1.3% |
| Mental Health Clinician I | 9 | $69,198 | $18k – $89k | ▲ 75.7% |
| Substance Abuse Counselor | 8 | $72,073 | $31k – $72k | ▲ 1.8% |
| Social Worker III B | 8 | $67,138 | $48k – $83k | ▼ 19.1% |
| Social Worker II | 8 | $56,820 | $49k – $62k | ▼ 4.1% |
| Correctional Officer I | 8 | $55,090 | $27k – $71k | ▲ 44.3% |
| Office Assistant III | 8 | $48,127 | $47k – $52k | ▲ 4.9% |
| Eligibility Specialist I | 8 | $42,028 | $36k – $44k | ▲ 131.9% |
| Eligibility Supervisor | 7 | $87,533 | $85k – $90k | ▲ 2.7% |
| Road Maintenance Worker II | 7 | $68,521 | $59k – $73k | ▲ 17.6% |
| Health Education Associate II | 7 | $63,955 | $60k – $75k | ▼ 3.7% |
| Social Worker III | 6 | $84,788 | $76k – $88k | new |
| Accounting Technician | 6 | $64,051 | $55k – $68k | ▲ 3.3% |
| Mental Health Case Manager I | 6 | $53,261 | $39k – $57k | new |
| Custodian | 6 | $53,140 | $38k – $59k | ▲ 19.0% |
| Road Maintenance Worker I | 6 | $50,247 | $37k – $56k | ▲ 353.7% |
| Sheriff's Sergeant | 5 | $153,001 | $146k – $166k | ▲ 7.1% |
| Correctional Sergeant | 5 | $127,985 | $121k – $158k | ▲ 8.9% |
| Supervising Deputy Probation Officer | 5 | $120,484 | $85k – $124k | new |
| IT Support Technician II | 5 | $80,217 | $76k – $84k | ▲ 3.1% |
| Multi-Service Officer | 5 | $79,634 | $71k – $94k | new |
| Accountant I | 5 | $76,793 | $68k – $78k | ▲ 12.7% |
| Social Worker II B | 5 | $58,742 | $41k – $74k | new |
| Peer Mentor | 5 | $3,571 | $2k – $4k | new |
No jobs match.
How many people earn what
- Under $10k62
- $10k – $30k65
- $30k – $50k86
- $50k – $70k138
- $70k – $90k130
- $90k – $110k76
- $110k – $150k83
- $150k or more48
Includes part-time and seasonal workers, which is why many earn under $10k.
Pay by department
| Department | People | Typical pay |
|---|---|---|
| Sheriff/sheriff Operations | 58 | $97,580 |
| Health and Human Services/hhsa Eligibility Workers | 41 | $57,719 |
| Probation/probation Department | 37 | $72,542 |
| Sheriff/corrections Division - Jail | 33 | $95,938 |
| Health and Human Services/public Health | 30 | $61,974 |
| Assessor/assessor | 29 | $63,023 |
| Probation/juvenile Hall | 24 | $58,149 |
| Behavioral Health/children Providers for Those Age | 22 | $14,387 |
| Public Works/road Maintenance | 20 | $63,912 |
| Behavioral Health/managers | 20 | $128,377 |
| Health and Human Services/comm Service and Workforce Dev | 19 | $59,407 |
| Behavioral Health/adult Providers for Those 26-65+ | 17 | $70,567 |
Highest paid at San Benito County in 2025
Common questions
How much does a San Benito County employee make?
The typical employee was paid $68,875 in 2025: half of the 688 people paid earned more, half earned less. Most earned between $42,857 and $96,667.
Why do so many people earn very little?
The list includes everyone who got a paycheck during the year: part-time, seasonal and short-term workers, and people who joined or left partway through. 62 people (9.0%) were paid under $10,000.
Does this include benefits like health insurance or pension?
No. It is the pay people received: regular salary or wages (89.1% of all pay), overtime (2.6%) and extra pay such as allowances, longevity and severance (6.7%).
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