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Plumbing contractors in Salinas, CA

The Salinas, CA metro area has 65 plumbing contractors, or 1.51 per 10,000 residents.

What plumbing work involves and how it is licensed is written once on the national plumbing page. California publishes a business-level licence source for plumbing, and the California page lists which classes count.

The facts

Plumbing contractors in this metro
65
Per 10,000 residents
1.51 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
3
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
1
Licensed share, CA portion of this metro
24.6%
Share of this metro’s entities excluded as out-of-state: 0.0%. California licenses the business itself, so the share is measured against business-level records. About 47% of California licensees are sole owners, whose published address is frequently a home.
Active licenses with no public listing
154
Verify any single record at the board: CSLB license check.
Licenses lapsed in the last 12 months
17
Employment and pay for this trade
320 employed, $64,440 median annual wage
Occupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters. Median hourly wage $30.98. SOC 47-2152 pools plumbers with pipefitters and steamfitters, so this employment figure and this wage cover all three occupations together and are not a plumbing-only measure.
Independent, franchise, corporate
62 independent, 3 franchise brand, 0 corporate owned, 0 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
0.00% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.00% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 430,723, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023. State license files, as of September 2, 2026. BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 OEWS, published May 15, 2026, SOC 47-2152.

Row definitions: methodology page.

What these numbers say about plumbing in Salinas

By record count, plumbing is the third largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Salinas, behind landscaping and ahead of flooring. That ordering is a property of the source data's categories rather than a judgement about which trade matters most in Salinas.

Per resident, Salinas carries fewer plumbing records than California as a whole.

The independent share of Salinas's plumbing records is close to the California figure, so the mix of independent, franchise-brand and corporate-owned records here is ordinary for the state.

A larger share of Salinas's plumbing records link to an active state licence than the California figure for the same trade. That measures how well two files join here.

Almost every Salinas plumbing record sits inside California, the state the licensed share is computed inside, so that share covers nearly the whole metro.

Plumbing licences issued and licences lapsed in Salinas were close to level over the last twelve months, so the licensed side of this trade held its size here. Both figures come from the state's own status field.

More active California licences covering plumbing in Salinas have no matching record in open place data than this page lists records at all, and none of those licences appear in the list below.

The occupational series the Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes for this trade counts 320 workers across Salinas, and this site publishes 65 plumbing records here. The two count different things, one an occupation across every employer and the other the businesses on this site, so they stand side by side rather than one against the other.

Of the Salinas plumbing records that are not independent, franchise brands outnumber corporate-owned locations.

No Salinas plumbing record is waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts above account for the whole list.

More plumbing records first appeared in Salinas over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this trade and metro grew. A record appears when the source learns of a business, which is a different event from a business opening.

No city inside Salinas differs from the metro enough on plumbing to carry a page of its own, so every record here is answered on this page.

Among the 19 California metro areas this site publishes a plumbing page for, Salinas is 11th of 19 by records per resident, around the middle. The field is the metro areas this site publishes a plumbing page for rather than every metro area in California.

Ordered by plumbing records per resident across every metro area this site publishes a plumbing page for, the hubs either side of Salinas are Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach above it and Modesto below it.

Plumbing contractors, A to Z

64 publishable contractors. Ordering never depends on payment, claim status, license status, or any commercial relationship.

Other trades in Salinas

Pool has fewer than 8 publishable records in Salinas, so it is answered on the overview above instead.