Jobs in the Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA area: pay, hiring and remote work
The Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA metro area has 103 open job postings from 41 employers in our data. 38.7% list a pay range, the median posted pay is $141,500 a year, 1.9% are remote and 44.6% have been open more than 60 days (data as of October 2026).
What stands out
A $141,500 posted salary in the Santa Rosa area buys about what $131,000 buys in the average US metro area, because prices here run 8% above the national average.
Housing costs run 40% above the US average here (BEA regional price parities).
44.6% of open postings have been listed for more than 60 days (median 40 days), 3rd highest of 99 metro areas.
38.7% of open job postings list a pay range, 18th of 99 metro areas.
7.8% of postings are entry-level, 94th of 99 metro areas.
Santa Rosa compared with similar-sized metro areas: the median wage divided by the local price level (US average prices = 100). Download this chart (SVG)
103open postings from 41 employers
38.7%list a pay range
$141,500median posted pay (middle half: $70,000 to $190,500)
1.9%remote
4.5%unemployment rate, 2026-08 (BLS)
$57,000official median wage for all jobs, May 2025 (BLS)
7.8%entry-level postings
The metro area's unemployment rate was 4.5% in 2026-08 (4.8% a year earlier) (BLS, not seasonally adjusted). Across California, employers had 674,000 job openings in 2025-12, an openings rate of 3.6% (BLS JOLTS). Indeed's own measure of job postings in the metro area is 25.8% below its February 2020 level and 2.8% higher than a year ago (Indeed Hiring Lab, 2026-10-02).
City by city inside the metro area
Place
Postings
Employers
Pay listed
Median posted pay
Santa Rosa, CA
56
25
30.8%
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Petaluma, CA
20
9
n/a
–
Rohnert Park, CA
15
3
92.9%
–
Places with at least 15 postings from 3 employers. Shading shows where median posted pay is higher. Pay figures need 8 postings with pay.
Posted pay by kind of job
Kind of job
Median posted pay
Postings with pay
Sales
$82,500
11
Who is hiring, by industry
Industry
Postings
Healthcare & Life Sciences
30
Retail & E-commerce
19
Other
17
Employers with the most openings
Esselenvironmental: 15 postings
Heartflowinc: 13 postings
Boxlunch: 8 postings
LGCGroup: 8 postings
Moorehomeservices: 4 postings
Federal government hiring
26 federal job announcements open to the public list Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA, with a median posted salary range midpoint of $112,500. Agencies hiring most: Federal Aviation Administration (17), Veterans Health Administration (4), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (2), Drug Enforcement Administration (1), Internal Revenue Service (1). Source: USAJOBS, 2026-10-10.
What your paycheck buys here
Prices in the Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA area run 8% above the national average, and housing runs 40% above it. The official median wage for all jobs is $57,000, which is worth $52,500 in average-US dollars. The median posted pay of $141,500 is worth $131,000.
Local prices compared with the national average, where 100 is the US average. Download this chart (SVG)Median wages for the ten occupations with the most workers here (worker count in parentheses). Download this chart (SVG)Which industries have the most open postings in our data. Download this chart (SVG)
A posting that lists several places counts once in the metro. Metro areas are the Census Bureau's 2023 definitions. This covers employers whose career pages we read, not every job in the area. Methodology · All metro areas (CSV)
