250+ Social Services & Counseling Jobs in San Jose, CA

Government wage data says the local community and social service group averaged $42.74 per hour in May 2025, while the broader occupational family had a $79,550 median annual wage and an $88,900 mean annual wage in 2025. More recent posted pay is directionally higher at the center—about $90k to $105k for salary roles and about $32 to $34 / hour for hourly roles—but those are posting-based ranges, not official medians.

Full September 2026 market report

Advertised pay

Across the 224 openings that disclose pay, the advertised range midpoint runs $86,320 at the 25th percentile, $110,029 at the median and $139,994 at the 75th. These are advertised ranges, not earned pay.

Active openings as of October 17, 2026

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What our analysts see this month

Competitive market | next 3-6 months

This is a competitive but workable market over the next 3-6 months: San Jose metro unemployment was 4.3% in August 2026, local education and health services employment was up 6.1510% year over year, and the metro had 16,600 workers in the community and social service occupational family in 2025. Pay is better than national field norms—the local occupational-family median was $79,550 in 2025 versus $58,300 nationally—but openings are not especially loose, with California social-services postings down 4.0% year over year even as statewide employment in the field rose 1.4%. In practice, that means employers still need people, but they can be selective about direct experience, documentation quality, and reliability in client-facing work.

Best positioned: The best odds right now go to applicants with direct case-management experience, strong crisis-intervention and documentation skills, and a willingness to work on-site in hospital/health-care or nonprofit settings.

Main caution: The biggest trap is assuming this field pays like the rest of San Jose; community and social service pay trails the metro's all-occupation average, and most openings are mid-level and on-site.

From the September 2026 market report

Who is hiring here

Counted across all 267 openings in this market. 10 of the employers below are hiring for more than one role right now.

1. Kaiser Permanente International: 24 open roles
2. Stanford Health Care: 12 open roles
3. Jonah Cooper Jr, LLC: 10 open roles
4. Therapy Partners Group: 10 open roles
5. Barrows Training and Education Physical Therapy: 6 open roles
6. El Camino Health: 6 open roles
7. Kaiser Permanente: 5 open roles
8. PeteDME: 5 open roles
9. California Rehabilitation and Sports Therapy: 4 open roles
10. Dignity Health: 4 open roles

Where the openings are

• San Jose: 75
• Santa Clara: 33
• Sunnyvale: 18
• Redwood City: 18
• Palo Alto: 17
• Fremont: 12
• Mountain View: 9
• Campbell: 8

Work arrangement

on-site 231 (91%), hybrid 15 (6%), remote 7 (3%)

Where the demand is

Real opportunity is concentrated where social-service work sits inside the care economy. San Jose education and health services employment was 227.8 thousand in August 2026 and up 6.1510% year over year, while local postings were led by hospitals and health care (about 40%), healthcare (about 20%), and non-profit organizations (about 15%). That combination favors case management, care coordination, patient advocacy, interdisciplinary collaboration, and documentation-heavy roles tied to medical systems or coordinated community services. A second pocket of demand sits in homelessness, housing stabilization, and outreach. Santa Clara County's current plan aims to help 15,000 additional people obtain permanent housing by 2030, provide rental assistance to 3,000 households annually, and prioritize prevention, housing retention, more services for people living outdoors, and investment in people with lived experience. The local posting sample also points to a fragmented employer base rather than one dominant buyer, with BACH, LifeMoves, HomeFirst Mortgage Corp., and Bill Wilson Center among the most active named employers.

• Hospital-linked case management and care coordination (high): Best fit for people who can manage documentation, advocacy, referrals, and multidisciplinary workflows under time pressure.
• Housing stability, homelessness prevention, and outreach programs (high): Strong path for candidates with field outreach, benefits navigation, shelter, or housing-retention experience.
• General nonprofit community programs (moderate): Still viable, but usually more fragmented and title-specific, with quality of fit mattering more than volume.

Where to focus: Prioritize hospital-linked case management and community programs tied to housing stability or outreach, and tailor each application to those lanes instead of sending one generic social-services resume everywhere.

Roles worth searching next

• Patient navigator or care navigator: It uses referral coordination, client communication, and follow-up skills without requiring you to market yourself as a full social-service generalist.
• Nonprofit program coordinator: It keeps you inside mission-driven organizations while shifting some emphasis from direct caseload work to operations, reporting, and delivery.
• Benefits or eligibility specialist: It fits people who are strongest in intake, systems navigation, policy rules, and client communication.
• Intake coordinator or utilization review coordinator: It rewards assessment, documentation, triage, and coordination skills that overlap with case management.

What postings ask for

• Case management (table_stakes | immediate): It is the clearest local must-have skill, appearing in about 60% of postings. Who: Everyone in this category, especially entry-level applicants who need one concrete signal of readiness.
• Crisis intervention (table_stakes | immediate): It shows up in about 35% of local postings and is a strong screening signal for direct-service credibility. Who: Case managers, outreach workers, youth and family workers, and anyone applying into behavioral-health-adjacent settings.
• Documentation plus HIPAA/client confidentiality (table_stakes | immediate): Documentation appears in about 30% of local postings, and broader field guidance highlights data privacy, HIPAA, and confidentiality as essential in the current environment. Who: All candidates, especially switchers whose client-facing background is not obvious.
• Care coordination and interdisciplinary collaboration (differentiator | immediate): Local postings frequently ask for care coordination and interdisciplinary collaboration, which aligns well with the area's health-system-heavy employer mix. Who: Mid-career applicants and anyone targeting hospital-linked or medically integrated roles.
• Trauma-informed care (differentiator | immediate): It appears in about 15% of local postings and helps distinguish applicants who can work in homelessness, youth, and crisis-adjacent environments. Who: Housing, outreach, school-support, youth, and family-service applicants.
• CHW certification (differentiator | near-term): It is one of the most frequently named local certifications and helps candidates bridge into outreach, navigation, and community-based health roles. Who: Entry-level candidates and career switchers without an MSW or counseling track background.

Questions about this market

What do Social Services, Counseling & Community roles pay in San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA?

Government wage data says the local community and social service group averaged $42.74 per hour in May 2025, while the broader occupational family had a $79,550 median annual wage and an $88,900 mean annual wage in 2025. More recent posted pay is directionally higher at the center—about $90k to $105k for salary roles and about $32 to $34 / hour for hourly roles—but those are posting-based ranges, not official medians. Local field pay beats national benchmarks—the occupational-family median here was $79,550 versus $58,300 nationally—but the local group mean of $42.74 per hour still trails the metro's all-occupation mean of $57.32 per hour, so this is not San Jose tech pay.

Where is demand for Social Services, Counseling & Community roles in San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA concentrated?

Real opportunity is concentrated where social-service work sits inside the care economy. San Jose education and health services employment was 227.8 thousand in August 2026 and up 6.1510% year over year, while local postings were led by hospitals and health care (about 40%), healthcare (about 20%), and non-profit organizations (about 15%). That combination favors case management, care coordination, patient advocacy, interdisciplinary collaboration, and documentation-heavy roles tied to medical systems or coordinated community services. A second pocket of demand sits in homelessness, housing stabilization, and outreach. Santa Clara County's current plan aims to help 15,000 additional people obtain permanent housing by 2030, provide rental assistance to 3,000 households annually, and prioritize prevention, housing retention, more services for people living outdoors, and investment in people with lived experience. The local posting sample also points to a fragmented employer base rather than one dominant buyer, with BACH, LifeMoves, HomeFirst Mortgage Corp., and Bill Wilson Center among the most active named employers.

Which employers are hiring the most Social Services, Counseling & Community talent in San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA?

Recent postings show the most activity from BACH (15 postings), LifeMoves (5 postings), HomeFirst Mortgage Corp. (5 postings). See the full market report for the complete employer landscape.

Can Social Services, Counseling & Community roles in San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA be done remotely?

Of recent postings, 5% are remote and 10% hybrid, with 80% on-site. Use the Remote filter above to see only remote openings.

How current are these listings?

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