Despite the one-month improvement, job markets in the state and Bay Area continue to wobble in 2025. The Bay Area lost 14,700 ...

Over 8 quarters, local wages have grown at an average annual rate of 4.7% vs. a 3.2 % increase in consumer prices.

Californians move to where the home is. Population-gaining counties added a combined 225,000 housing units in five years, or ...

it was the worst year for California employment since the post-Great Recession’s 115,600 decline in 2010. And, historically speaking, job growth was 15% below the average employment boost since ...

It all comes down to the job market. President Donald Trump’s drastic policy moves, and the twists and turns that have come alongside them, have made economic forecasting a squirrely endeavor.

Federal job figures show California’s population-gaining counties added 335,000 workers in the five years ending in September 2024, or 6% growth. Conversely, jobs fell by a combined 64,900 ...

Minus the pandemic era’s gyrations, it was the worst year for California employment since the post-Great Recession’s 115,600 decline in 2010. And, historically speaking, job growth was 15% ...