CRNA salary in California
Use this page to benchmark how crna pay is showing up in California right now, which metro markets appear strongest, and how the state compares with the broader national picture.
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A few current examples from the live job feed so the salary page stays tied to real market openings.
Use the role-wide salary rankings page to see where California sits relative to the other published CRNAs markets, then move back into any state page for local context.
Start with the strongest state-level salary markets where Anesthesio has enough active compensation data to publish a useful snapshot.
Once you know how California compares on pay, the next useful move is usually checking broader role tradeoffs, search-path options, or live CRNA openings.
Pressure-test how CRNA compensation sits against the CAA route when geography, supervision model, and flexibility matter.
Use the broad role guide when you want to compare training runway, responsibility, and long-run market fit alongside pay.
If you already know the pay band, use the alternatives hub to choose the search workflow that gets you to stronger CRNA opportunities faster.
Move from salary benchmarks into live CRNA openings to compare schedule shape, practice setting, and package detail.
Practical market context, not a synthetic salary survey.
These salary pages are built from active CRNA job postings on Anesthesio that include structured compensation data. We use salary ranges from current listings, compute midpoints for directional market comparisons, and surface percentile bands to show spread rather than pretending the market has one exact number.
That means this page is best used for market orientation: understanding where current openings cluster, how wide compensation ranges look, and which states or metros are paying above or below the middle of the market right now.
Based on current salary-bearing CRNA listings on Anesthesio, the market midpoint in California is around $400,000, with most current salary ranges clustering between $350,000 and $450,000.
California currently sits above the national midpoint on Anesthesio’s active salary-bearing listings. That does not mean every job in the state pays more or less — it just means the current state-level market signal is moving higher than the national center.
Use it to benchmark whether a target job looks below-market, near-market, or above-market for California, then open individual listings and the Offer Comparison tool when you need to model taxes, bonuses, or employment-structure tradeoffs on a real offer.