The Middle Sierra region is comprised of Amador, Calaveras, Mariposa, and Tuolumne counties.
September 3, 2018 - California EDD published a 2018 Labor Day Briefing for California.
Highlights for 2018
California’s long employment expansion continues, pushing unemployment to a historic low.
• California’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate stood at 4.2 percent for the fourth consecutive month in July 2018.
• Since peaking at over 2.2 million persons in October 2010, California civilian unemployment has fallen sharply and continuously since.
California has enjoyed broad-based industry sector job growth over the course of its employment expansion, including the last year.
• Ten of California’s 11 major industry sectors contributed to California’s economy with nearly a three million job gain from February 2010 through July 2018.
• Three California industry sectors added more than 500,000 jobs from the February 2010 through July 2018 period: educational and health services (609,100), professional and business services (590,700), and leisure and hospitality (525,800).
• Although every California major industry sector but mining and logging has contributed jobs to California’s employment expansion, some have grown at a faster pace than others, including educational services (private), health care and social assistance, along with construction, and leisure and hospitality sectors.
Job projections in California
• California’s total employment is projected to increase by 3.4 percent between April 2017 and June 2019, reaching nearly 19.1 million jobs. The occupational groups with the most growth are construction and extraction (65,900), food preparation and serving related (63,300), and personal care and service (55,300) occupations.
California Jobs in Demand
The following table lists examples of occupations utilized by various industries where job demand is expected to grow. Occupations were selected based on jobs with the most projected job openings (California short-term occupational projections 2017-2019), annual earnings, and online job advertisements. Occupations are separated into three categories based on educational level— some require a high school diploma or less, while others require two to four years of college or higher. The online job advertisements were extracted from The Conference Board Help Wanted OnLine™ data series, which compiles, analyzes, and categorizes job advertisements from numerous online job boards, including CalJOBSSM, California’s labor exchange system.
2 For the 2017-2019 period, California’s two-year occupational projections are based on employment from the second quarter of 2017 and project to the second quarter of 2019. These numbers reflect the sum of new jobs and replacements, when employees permanently leave their occupations or the labor force all together. Many jobs are a result of replacements, not growth within an occupation.
3 EDD/LMID Occupational Employment Statistics; 2018 Wages reflect California median annual wage. Median is the point at which half of workers earn more and half earn less. The wages are from the 2018 first quarter and do not include self-employed or unpaid family workers.
4 The data from The Conference Board Help Wanted OnLine™ data series reflects California occupations with the highest number of online job advertisements in the 120-day period ending August 15, 2018.
Read the Labor Day Briefing
Source: EDD
