Chapman University in Orange said Orange County employment in five key industry sectors remains “well below” prerecession levels and that payrolls will grow by 2.5% next year after finishing 2015 up 3.2%.
A 2.5% gain would add about 39,000 jobs in Orange County in 2016 for a total of about 1.6 million.
The numbers were part of Chapman’s A. Gary Anderson Center for Economic Research annual economic forecast for Orange County, California and the U.S., that it presented to about 1,500 attendees gathered at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa.
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