In June 2014, California’s labor market finally recovered all of the jobs it had lost during the Great Recession. It was a landmark achievement and a testament to the resilience of the state’s economy. California, after all, was one of the nation’s hardest hit locations in the wake of the housing collapse, and had more ground to make up than most.
Many new jobs in California are in low wage industries. Indeed, the post recession period favored low wage job growth over middle wage and high wage job growth throughout the state by a wide margin. However, California continues to contain a significant amount of jobs in middle wage and high wage industries as well. In fact, California has been leading the nation in both middle wage and high wage job creation during the post recession recovery.
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