SoCal weekly wages rose 4% to $1,397 a week. Pay dipped elsewhere in California by 0.6% to $1,834.
”Survey says” looks at various rankings and scorecards judging geographic locations while noting these grades are best seen as a mix of artful interpretation and data.Southern California workers are enjoying faster job growth and rising wages compared with their peers elsewhere in the state.My trusty spreadsheet reviewed one of my favorite job numbers — a quarterly tally of hiring and pay stats from employer records.
Unfortunately, these quarterly calculations take time to complete. So this employment analysis for the four counties covered by the Southern California News Group is based on the latest data for the year ending in March.Southern California bosses added 540,550 workers in the 12 months ended in March to boost total staffing to 7.7 million — that’s 7.5% growth. The rest of the state had 729,700 hires to 10 million — just 4.3% growth.
Meanwhile, Southern California’s average weekly wages rose 4% to $1,397 a week. Pay dipped in the rest of California by 0.6% to $1,834 a week.This year’s hiring boost partially reflects California’s slower-than-average employment rebound in early 2021. So bosses statewide have been playing catch-up of late — especially in consumer-facing businesses such as tourism, dining, entertainment and retail.
However, these jobs typically have some of the market’s lowest wages. It may sound like statistical semantics, but the rapid rehiring statewide of these more modest-paying positions helped depress the average wage.
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