How many sign shops are in the San Francisco area?

Name: Sign shops in the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA metro area, 2024
Creator: Sign Trade Data
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66 sign shops

in the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA metro area in 2024. The BLS withheld employment and pay for this area to protect individual employers. Sign shops make up a 53% smaller share of local private employers than they do nationally. The area holds 9.8% of California's sign shops.

Shops vs 2023-4.3%3 fewer shops than 2023

Concentration0.47×the national share of employers

Employees—withheld by BLS

Average pay—withheld by BLS

The San Francisco area among U.S. metro areas

#	Metro area	Sign shops	Employees	Avg pay	Concentration
18	Portland areaOR-WA	74	—	—	1.15×
18	Washington areaDC-VA-MD-WV	74	—	—	0.54×
20	Charlotte areaNC-SC	73	—	—	1.18×
21	San Francisco areaCA	66	—	—	0.47×
22	Austin areaTX	63	—	—	1.31×
23	San Antonio areaTX	62	—	—	1.68×
24	Nashville areaTN	58	—	—	1.19×

All 383 metro areas are ranked on the metro list. For California as a whole, with 2025 figures and the trend since 2014, see the California page.

Other metro areas in California

Metro area	Sign shops	Employees	Avg pay	Concentration
Los Angeles area	263	2,548	$64,368	0.58×
San Diego area	77	613	$79,003	0.92×
Riverside area	58	807	$62,931	0.56×
Sacramento area	34	—	—	0.52×
Fresno area	23	—	—	0.73×
San Jose area	20	129	$73,455	0.37×
Santa Rosa area	16	89	$64,722	1.18×
Oxnard area	13	72	$50,976	0.66×

Questions

How many sign shops are in the San Francisco area?

The Bureau of Labor Statistics counted 66 sign manufacturing establishments in the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA metro area in 2024 (annual average, private employers), rank 21 of 383 U.S. metro areas.

What do sign shops pay in the San Francisco area?

The BLS withheld employment and pay for sign shops in the San Francisco area in 2024, to protect individual employers. Statewide, California's sign shops paid an average of $69,230 that year.

Does the San Francisco area have more sign shops than average?

Relative to its size, no: sign shops make up a 53% smaller share of the San Francisco area's private employers than they do across the U.S. (a location quotient of 0.47, where 1.00 is the national share).

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW), annual averages, private ownership, NAICS 339950 Sign Manufacturing, San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA metropolitan statistical area, 2024 and 2023 annual averages, read September 24, 2026. 2024 is the latest year the BLS has published for metro areas. Concentration is the BLS location quotient for establishments. Ranks computed from the 383 metro areas with a published count; tied areas share a rank.