Hundreds of thousands of jobs will be created in L.A. County over the next four years, most of them low-paying, according to a report released Wednesday by the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corp.
Most of the jobs added in the county by 2020 will pay below the median wage, the group said.
Office administration and food services will add the most positions to their ranks through 2020, combining for a total of about 93,000 new jobs, according to projections by the LAEDC, a nonprofit aimed at promoting business expansion in the region.
Those jobs do not require more than a high school diploma, and pay less than the state median household income. The county will gain only about 19,000 jobs in engineering, and manufacturing and machine operation, during the same period.
“We would like to see better job growth in high-paying, high-skilled jobs in order to provide career pathways for our residents,” said Christine Cooper, an economist at LAEDC who co-wrote the report.
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