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802S (U,W,Y,Z): Proportion of Students After Exit Who Attained the Living Wage

Among students in selected student journey who exited the community college system and who did not transfer to any postsecondary institution, the proportion who attained the district county living wage for a single adult measured immediately following the academic year of exit

Value Type

Percentage and number of students included in the equation

Data Source(s)

Employment Development Department Unemployment Insurance Dataset
National Student Clearinghouse
CSU/UC Cohort Match
Insight Center for Community Economic Development
Chancellor's Office Management Information System

For the 2023-24 build, 2024 single adult living wages will be used.
This metric is adjusted for inflation. The SCFF does not adjust for inflation for this metric. Therefore, this metric will not align with the SCFF.
Unemployment Insurance data contain wages only for those employed in an occupation or industry covered by Unemployment Insurance in California. This excludes individuals employed by the military or federal government, and those who are self-employed, employed out of state, unemployed, or not in the workforce after completion of an award.
A student's academic year of exit is the end of the academic year in which they were last enrolled in the community college system
Quarterly wages will always be calculated using Q4 of the year of exit (i.e., if a student was last enrolled in 2017-18, earnings will be calculated using wages in October-December 2018)
Living wages are based on the county where the college district is located (if located in more than one county than county with the greatest overlap was chosen - Gavilan in San Bento and Yosemite in El Dorado).

Calculate median annual earnings and compare to living wage for a single adult for 505S Students Who Exited Higher Education and Who Were Employed in the Second Fiscal Quarter After Exit:

Were matched in the UI wage file
Wage record found in the second fiscal quarter following the selected year
AND annualize earnings in the second fiscal quarter after the academic year of exit
AND multiply quarterly fiscal wages by four, using the quarterly wages in the second fiscal quarter immediately following the selected year
AND adjust for inflation
AND use the CA deflator in the index table (https://bit.ly/Index_table_2022-23) to adjust for inflation
AND determine whether total earnings for each student equaled or exceeded the 2024 living wage
AND compare annual wages for each student to living wage for single adult for the county in which the district is located
AND count students at the selected college where enrolled as a 122SX, 122SY, 122SZ, 122SU, 122SW in the selected year

505S All Students Who Exited Higher Education and Who Were Employed in the Second Fiscal Quarter After Exit for 802SW

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Last Updated

05/22/2025

Student Group

Comprehensive Snapshot

Report

Strong Workforce Program
Vision 2030

Metric Type

Employment and Earnings

Subjourney

U,W,Y,Z

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