Program Payoff

Specialized Sales, Merchandising and Marketing Operations programs in California

22 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

Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scientific Products in California earn a median of $76,490 a year across 134,800 jobs. That is what the occupation pays everyone in it — not what graduates of any one program below earned.

Also leads toMedianJobs in California
Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists$94,700119,070
First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers$54,870109,180
Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents$79,73055,860
Marketing Managers$193,62054,660
Sales and Related Workers, All Other$52,81028,480

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 2
Butte College Oroville Associate's degree not published 0
City College of San Francisco San Francisco Undergraduate certificate not published 0
City College of San Francisco San Francisco Associate's degree not published 0
College of the Sequoias Visalia Associate's degree not published
Cypress College Cypress Undergraduate certificate not published 3
Cypress College Cypress Associate's degree not published 0
Irvine Valley College Irvine Associate's degree not published 0
Los Medanos College Pittsburg Undergraduate certificate not published 10
Los Medanos College Pittsburg Associate's degree not published 1
MiraCosta College Oceanside Associate's degree not published 0
Orange Coast College Costa Mesa Undergraduate certificate not published 1
Orange Coast College Costa Mesa Associate's degree not published 1
Saddleback College Mission Viejo Undergraduate certificate not published 5
Saddleback College Mission Viejo Associate's degree not published 2
San Diego Mesa College San Diego Undergraduate certificate not published 0
San Diego Mesa College San Diego Associate's degree not published 1
Skyline College San Bruno Associate's degree not published 0
Southwestern College Chula Vista Undergraduate certificate not published 0
Southwestern College Chula Vista Associate's degree not published 0
West Los Angeles College Culver City Undergraduate certificate not published 0
West Los Angeles College Culver City Associate's degree not published 0

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.