Up to $24k a month in Sacramento County? See 10 available California state jobs
Looking for a career change in Sacramento County? The state of California is seeking applicants for full-time positions in fields including engineering, public health and legal work.
State jobs are known for offering competitive benefits and enrollment in the nation’s largest public pension plan.
Although some positions require employees to work in the office, others offer the option of working remotely from home with hybrid schedules.
Each job has different requirements, which are listed.
According to CalCareers, there were more than 2,800 open government positions in the state of California as of Monday, Nov. 17, including about 800 job openings in Sacramento County.
These were some of the latest available jobs in Sacramento County on the CalCareers site as of Monday:
Chief operating officer | Permanent, full-time
- Department: Judicial Council of California
- Salary: $16,543 to $24,817 per month
- Application due date: Tuesday, Dec. 2
Reporting to the chief deputy director, the chief operating officer serves as a member of the executive leadership of the council’s staff organization.
Duties including directing and administering personnel and programs as well as implementing Judicial Council policy and developing policy options for consideration by the advisory committees and council.
The chief operating officer collaborates with the executive team on the development and implementation of Judicial Council staff; provides leadership on high-profile and politically sensitive issues and represents the interests and positions of the Judicial Council to the other branches of government.
The chief operating officer is expected to work in person at the Judicial Council’s San Francisco or Sacramento office at least two days per week and live in the areas surrounding these locations.
Engineer | Permanent, full-time
- Department: Department of Water Resources
- Salary: $6,488 to $12,152 per month
- Application due date: Wednesday, Dec. 3
Under the direction of the manager of the Cost Allocation and Repayment Unit, the incumbent performs duties related to creating the annual Statements of Charges for State Water Project contractors.
This includes utilizing the new Cost Allocation and Billing database; defining and creating allocation-related master data; updating and analyzing cost allocations and performing cost and charge analysis.
The engineer is expected to spend half their time in the office, including Tuesdays and Wednesdays, with a couple of floating in-office days.
Environmental program manager | Permanent, full-time
- Department: State Water Resources Control Board
- Salary: $12,551 to $15,602 per month
- Application due date: Wednesday, Dec. 3
The environmental program manager directs and has charge of critical and sensitive public health, environmental, agricultural productivity and natural resource management programs.
The environmental program manager is responsible for operational planning and assigning of projects as well as budgeting for time and funds; staff development and work force planning; reviewing and evaluating program performance and achievements, and preparing administrative reports.
This position may be eligible for telework with in-person attendance based on operational needs.
Regional disaster public health manager | Permanent, full-time
- Department: Department of Public Health
- Salary: $8,230 to $10,242 per month
- Application due date: Wednesday, Dec. 3
Under the direction of the Center for Preparedness and Response’s Response Section program manager, the program manager serves as the chief of the Regional Disaster Public Health Representative Unit, comprised of senior emergency services coordinators.
The unit chief is responsible for oversight of the California Department of Public Health’s Regional Disaster Public Health Representative program.
Duties include developing roles and responsibilities in accordance with the Center for Preparedness and Response’s program vision, in addition to managing and providing oversight to the program and working with internal and external partners.
This position may be eligible for telework. The selected candidate must have a primary residency in the state of California prior to being hired — and continue to maintain California residency — as a condition of employment.
Research data specialist | Permanent, full-time
- Department: Office of Energy Infrastructure Safety
- Salary: $8,392 to $10,505 per month
- Application due date: Monday, Dec. 1
The research data specialist serves as the agency’s lead expert in geospatial analytics, data-driven research and statistical evaluation to support California’s energy infrastructure safety and wildfire mitigation oversight.
Operating within the Data Analytics Division, the research data specialist leads the design and execution of complex geographic information system-based studies, advanced modeling and performance assessments of utility wildfire mitigation plans.
The specialist provides authoritative consultation on data methods, policy evaluation and geospatial intelligence, helping transform utility and environmental data into actionable insights that drive safety, compliance and resilience across California’s energy systems.
Applicants living in California may be eligible for a hybrid telework schedule, which typically includes working remotely and physically reporting to the office a minimum of two days per week.
Forest carbon specialist | Permanent, full-time
- Department: State Air Resources Board
- Salary: $5,918 to $11,455 per month
- Application due date: Monday, Dec. 1
The forest carbon specialist conducts a variety of activities related to development, implementation and analysis of the U.S. Forest Compliance Offset Protocol and associated projects. Under direction of an air resources supervisor, the specialist participates as a member of high-level technical engineering and scientific teams established to address technical and policy issues associated with the development of plans and protocols for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions as part of California’s Cap-and-Invest Program.
Duties include developing technical and statistical tools and approaches for assessing forest carbon quantification, monitoring and reporting applicable to the offsets program and other forest-related and land conservation efforts.
This position may be eligible for hybrid in-office work and in-state telework with the amount of telework dependent on the agency’s discretion and the Air Resources Board’s current telework policy.
Assistant bureau director | Permanent, full-time
- Department: Justice
- Salary: $12,392 to $14,782 per month
- Application due date: Monday, Dec. 1
Under the direction of the director of the Bureau of Criminal Information and Analysis, the assistant director is responsible for directing operational activities, planning, formulating and presenting policy recommendations.
Other duties include advocating legislative solutions and implementing new systems and programs in regard to law enforcement information and services.
This position is designated for telework for eligible applicants residing in California and may require reporting to headquarters or field offices and facilities to fulfill operational needs.
Control systems engineer | Permanent, full-time
- Department: Water Resources
- Salary: $10,555 to $13,202 per month
- Application due date: Wednesday, Dec. 3
Under direction of the senior control engineer, the associate control engineer provides expertise in current control systems evaluation, design and implementation practices.
Other duties include performing difficult engineering analysis of control systems equipment functional requirements, and conforming to Branch Engineering and operational standards with respect to the software, hardware, database control strategies, operator displays and network communications of the State Water Project’s Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition control systems.
Candidates must be willing to work outside of normal business hours, travel and stay overnight in various locations throughout the state of California.
Deputy legislative counsel | Permanent, full-time
- Department: Office of Legislative Counsel
- Salary: $7,969 to $12,026 per month
- Application due date: Monday, Nov. 24
Legal staff in the Office of Legislative Counsel provide professional services to members of the California State Legislature and, in certain situations, to the executive and judicial branches of state government and private citizens.
Under supervision of the attorney, assistant chief counsels and attorney supervisors, the deputy legislative council provides legal services on a variety of issues relating to existing law and proposed legislation.
This is a hybrid position.
Tax compliance administrator | Permanent, full-time
- Department: California Department of Tax and Fee Administration
- Salary: $8,056 to $10,583 per month
- Application due date: Wednesday, Nov. 26
Under the general direction of the business taxes administrator, the business taxes administrator is responsible for the statewide audit and compliance administrative functions for the Out-of-State Office.
The business taxes administrator manages and controls all day-to-day operational functions of the Registration, Collections, California Nexus and the Voluntary Disclosure Programs.
The business taxes administrator directs staff to conduct collection and registration investigations as well as analyze and evaluate audit leads for the California Nexus and Voluntary Disclosure programs.
Other duties include integrating and applying practices, policies and procedures across both compliance and audit functions.
This position may be eligible for partial telework for eligible candidates residing in California. All telework/hybrid schedules require staff to report to the office a minimum number of days per week.
This story was originally published November 18, 2025 at 6:00 AM.
