Employment
Berkeley has a low unemployment rate at 3.6 percent. A total of 81.7 percent of people work in either management, professional or related professions (61.4 percent) or sales and office occupations (20.3 percent). Median family income is $70,434 annually.
Work is easy to find in or around Berkeley. On average there are 7482 available jobs within 25 miles of the city.
Berkeley’s top ten employers are as follows:
1. University of California at Berkeley – 12,377 employees
2. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory – 3,832 employees
3. Alta Bates Medical Center – 2,065 employees
4. City of Berkeley – 1,569 employees
5. Berkeley Unified School District – 1,200 employees
6. Bayer Corporation – 1,101 employees
7. Kaiser Permanente Medical Group – 700 employees
8. California Department of Health Services – 600 employees
9. Pacific Steel Casting Company – 380 employees
10. Andronico’s Market – 325 employees