The Center for Jobs and the Economy has released our full analysis of the June Employment Report from the California Employment Development Department. For additional information and data about the California economy visit www.centerforjobs.org/ca.

The numbers for June remained positive, again nearing but not yet reaching the pre-pandemic highs.  Recovery progress, however, continued to slow, with employment gains weakening since March and nonfarm job gains weakening since February. 

California employment was still 189,300 short of the pre-pandemic level in February 2020.  In nonfarm jobs, California was still 175,900 below. 

Using the unadjusted numbers to show results by average wage level, the higher wage industries remained in positive territory, while the medium wage industries dipped to 0.3% below.  Lower wage industries continued improving with seasonal hiring, closing the gap to only a 1.0% shortfall.