Russ Steele
The California Employment Department has prepared a Labor Day Briefing for California.
This Briefing was prepared to report on California’s labor markets as the nation commemorates Labor Day, September 6. This report presents significant labor market trends and topical statistics relating to the California economy.
Some of the highlights from the briefing:
• Thus far in 2010, California has experienced a noticeable improvement in its jobs situation. The California economy added 65,300 nonfarm jobs during the first seven months of 2010, for an average gain of 9,300 jobs per month. In sharp contrast, the State lost an average of 69,700 jobs per month in 2009 and 44,600 jobs per month in 2008. The state gained an average of only 5,300 jobs per month in 2007.
• Private nonfarm payrolls (this excludes government employment) in California grew in six of the first sev- en months of 2010. The 13,700-job gain in July 2010 was the State’s second largest in the last three years. Since January 2010, private nonfarm employment has grown a total of 69,800, or an average monthly in- crease of 10,000 jobs. In contrast, during the period August 2008 through December 2009, the State lost an average of 67,900 private jobs per month, with losses over the period totaling over 1.1 million jobs.
• Although job growth has returned to California, the after effects of the recession still weigh on the econo- my. There were 1,327,700 fewer nonfarm jobs in California in July 2010 than at their pre-recession peak in July 2007. (emphasis added)
Full report, including green job estimates can be found here. What about the future job growth in Nevada County from 2006 - 2016? EDD limps Nevada County with similar mountain counties of Lassen, Modoc, Nevada, Plumas, Sierra, Siskiyou, and Trinity County. Here are the highlights:
Total employment is expected to reach almost 82,000 in the seven county region by 2016. Total employment includes Self-Employment, Unpaid Family Workers, Private Household Workers, Farm, and Nonfarm employment. This increase represents a gain of about 4,500 jobs for an average annual growth rate of about 0.6 percent.
The largest amount of nonfarm job growth is expected to occur in the Government sector with the addition of about 1,500 jobs, with most occurring in the Local Government segment. State government, however, is expected to decline. Significant gains are also expected in the Education Services, Health Care and Social Assistance (1,100), Leisure and Hospitality (700), Retail Trade (400), and Professional and Business Services (390) sectors. The other major industry sectors are expected to have marginal employment gains except for Natural Resources, Mining and Construction and Financial Activities, which are expected to decline during the outlook period. (emphasis added)
Right, the greatest job growth is in government jobs. Not state government, but local government. Let me ask you with declining tax revenues how are Counties going to be hiring more government workers? Is this a credible report?
Exit Question: Will all those government workers be hired to implement AB32 rules and regulations and collect fees? I can not find any other justification for that much growth in local government.
