Employment in LA and the Bay Area is still slightly below pre-pandemic levels

% change compared to Feb 2020

Source: EDD Labor Market Information. NOTES: Total nonfarm employment seasonally adjusted. The San Joaquin Valley region includes: Bakersfield, Fresno, Stockton-Lodi, Visalia-Porterville, Madera, Modesto, Merced and Hanford-Corcoran. The Greater Sacramento region includes: Sacramento-Roseville-Arden-Arcade, Chico and Yuba. The Bay Area includes data for: Oakland-Hayward-Berkeley, San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, San Francisco-Redwood City-South San Francisco, Santa Rosa, Vallejo-Fairfield, Santa Cruz-Watsonville, Napa, and San Rafael. The other regions are single-metro area regions. Get the data Embed