Program Payoff

Family and Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences Business Services programs in California

3 schools in California teach this, at certificate or associate level. The Department of Education publishes earnings for none of them, so the figures below are what the occupation itself pays.

What this work pays in California

Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists in California earn a median of $94,700 a year across 119,070 jobs. That is what the occupation pays everyone in it — not what graduates of any one program below earned.

Also leads toMedianJobs in California
Sales Managers$134,910112,440
First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers$54,870109,180
Marketing Managers$193,62054,660
Public Relations Specialists$85,03032,710
Writers and Authors$86,4808,390

Occupation wages: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, 2025.

Schools

SchoolCredentialMedian debtGraduate earnings, 2 yrsGraduates
Academy of Art University San Francisco Associate's degree not published 1
Mt San Antonio College Walnut Undergraduate certificate not published 1
Palo Verde College Blythe Undergraduate certificate not published 2

A dash under earnings or debt means the U.S. Department of Education has not published a figure for that program — it withholds any median computed from too few graduates, which covers about four of every five programs. It never means zero, and it says nothing about whether the program is any good. Where a figure is shown, the number of graduates behind it is shown with it.

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Program and outcome figures: U.S. Department of Education, College Scorecard, released 2026-06-10.