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HR Generalist & Business Partner pay in Sacramento

What HR generalists and business partners in the Sacramento metro earn, from the Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey, May 2025.

$80,950

MEDIAN PAY

the median

13-1071

OCCUPATION CODE

Human Resources Specialists, SOC 2018

Half of HR generalists and business partners in Sacramento earn between $64,660 and $104,650. One in ten earn less than $51,270; one in ten earn more than $132,290.

BLS OEWS, May 2025 · Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA · 5,360 employed

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What the work is

Recruit, screen, interview, or place individuals within an organization. May perform other activities in multiple human resources areas.

  • Interpret and explain human resources policies, procedures, laws, standards, or regulations.
  • Hire employees and process hiring-related paperwork.
  • Maintain current knowledge of Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and affirmative action guidelines and laws, such as the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
  • Prepare or maintain employment records related to events, such as hiring, termination, leaves, transfers, or promotions, using human resources management system software.
  • Address employee relations issues, such as harassment allegations, work complaints, or other employee concerns.
  • Review employment applications and job orders to match applicants with job requirements.

Summary and tasks from O*NET OnLine, 13-1071.00 Human Resources Specialists, O*NET 31.0.

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About this data

Wages: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (public domain; BLS is the source and does not vouch for this page). This page includes information from the O*NET 31.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA.

Licences: O*NET database licence (CC BY 4.0) · Creative Commons Attribution 4.0

Survey figures released 15 May 2026. A figure the survey withholds is left out, never estimated. The open roles beside them are the Sacramento hub's, whose machine-readable twin is at /jobs/hr-generalist/sacramento/data.json.

Listings come from employers' own careers sites. Apply links go to the employer. Updated 5 Oct 2026.