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Fire Sprinkler Fitter Jobs & Licensed Workforce in Santa Clara County, CA, Greater San Jose Metro Area

Licensed supply, wages, demand, and real current openings for fire sprinkler fitters in Santa Clara County, CA, updated nightly from the state register, BLS, and live job listings.

Santa Clara County, CA carries 87 licensed fire sprinkler fitters and a median wage of $107,560/yr ($51.71/hr).

87
licensed fire sprinkler fitters
$107,560
median annual wage (BLS OEWS, metro area)
69
construction demand index
1
open positions shown

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How the pay compares

This county sits at the 100th percentile nationally for fire sprinkler fitters pay, above the median US county. Average weekly wages across the county's construction trades rose 12.3% year over year (BLS QCEW).

Current openings in Santa Clara County

Real, current fire sprinkler fitters openings, 1 in Santa Clara County itself. Jobs by Adzuna.

Fire Sprinkler Technician
Summit Companies, San Jose, Santa Clara County
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Licensed workforce by level

Journeyman16
Contractor67

Licensed Fire Sprinkler Fitter contractors near Santa Clara County

Active, licensed firms and master-tier individuals on the CA register.

NameTier
A L S Fire Protection IncContractor
A M F Fire Protection IncContractor
A - Tech Plumbing & Fire ProtectionContractor
Accel Fire Protection ServicesContractor
Ace Fire Equipment & Service Co IncContractor
Adam's Fire StopContractor
Adanac Fire Protection IncContractor
Alfaro Fire Protection SystemsContractor
All Bay Fire Protection IncContractor
Alliance Construction & Fire ProtectionContractor

Santa Clara County within the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA metro

Santa Clara County holds 96% of the metro area's 91 licensed fire sprinkler fitters (the largest fire sprinkler fitters pool among its 2 counties), at 0.5 per 10,000 residents against 0.5 metro-wide.

Who entered and left in the last 12 months

Counted from ATI's nightly diff of the CA register itself, over the trailing year. Runs that failed a data-quality gate are excluded, so a scraper outage is never reported as workers leaving.

MovementWorkersWhat it means
New licences issued2People who entered the licensed workforce here.
Licences lapsed4Expired or not renewed. Retirement, relocation or leaving the trade.
Moved up a credential tier0Apprentice to journeyman, journeyman to master, and so on.
Net change-2New licences minus lapsed. Negative means the licensed base shrank.

Who employs fire sprinkler fitters here

Employment from the BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages for the industry this trade sits in; payroll from the Census County Business Patterns. Establishment counts are QCEW where the county is disclosed and an ATI estimate otherwise.

MeasureValueWhat it counts
Employer establishments561Physical business locations in this industry.
Industry employment8,186Everyone on those payrolls, not only licensed trades.
Annual industry payroll$1,070MTotal wages paid across those establishments (Census CBP, 2023).

How much work is in Santa Clara County

County-wide construction activity, across all trades rather than fire sprinkler fitters specifically. Each figure names its source and the period it covers.

MeasureValueWhat it means for you
New housing units permitted5,323Last full year, county-wide. 28 per 10,000 residents. Permits lead construction hiring by months, so this is the earliest honest signal of work arriving (Census Building Permits Survey).
Construction employment36,394Everyone working in construction in this county, all trades and office staff. Average pay $2,345 per week. BLS QCEW.
Median year homes were built1975Older stock means more repair, replacement and retrofit work, which is steadier than new build and does not stop in a downturn (Census ACS).
Net migration-2,685People who moved in minus people who moved out, from IRS address changes. Arrivals need housing, wiring, plumbing and heat.

Density and pipeline

0.4 licensed fire sprinkler fitters per 10,000 residents; 2 licensed holders per 100 estimated workers in the trade; 1.0 registered apprentices per 100 estimated workers; 0.2 apprentices per 10,000 residents. A thin pipeline against an ageing licensed base is how a shortage forms years before it shows up in wages.

Common questions

How many licensed fire sprinkler fitters are in Santa Clara County, CA?
Santa Clara County has 87 licensed fire sprinkler fitters on the CA register.
What do fire sprinkler fitters earn in Santa Clara County?
The median annual wage for this occupation in this market is $107,560 ($51.71/hour), per BLS OEWS.
Are there open fire sprinkler fitters jobs in Santa Clara County right now?
Yes, 1 tracked opening in Santa Clara County itself, of which 1 is listed above. Sourced from Adzuna and refreshed nightly.
Is this a job board?
No. This page is ATI's own licensed-workforce and market data for this county and trade. Job listings above, where present, are an additive real-time layer, not the page's core content.
Is this page for San Jose specifically?
This page covers all of Santa Clara County, CA, which is part of the Greater San Jose metro area (the Census-defined metro this county belongs to), so it includes but is not limited to San Jose proper.

License register: 2026-09-17; Wages: 2025-05-31; Demand: 2026-09-17; Apprenticeship: 2025-12-31.

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