D04Monthly · % change from a year earlier
California payroll jobs, total and information sector (year-over-year)
Total nonfarm and the information sector. Information employment is not a measure of taxes paid by technology firms.
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Worse than its 2017–19 range · getting worseJudged on “Information sector (level, thousands)”. Fewer tech/information jobs is bad. Latest 506.2 vs 2017–19 range 523.9–578.8.
How verdicts work →Information sector (level, thousan
506.2thousand jobs · Sep 2026Total nonfarm (level, thousands)
18,152thousand jobs · Sep 2026Dashed / hollow = preliminary or estimate
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What this is
Year-over-year % change. 2020 pandemic swing visible; y-axis clipped and labeled if needed.
- Unit
- % change from a year earlier
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Geography
- Total nonfarm (CANA); Information sector (SMS06000005000000001)
- Coverage
- From 1 Jan 2012 · latest observation 1 Sep 2026
- Release
- Monthly, ~3rd Friday
- Typical lag
- ~7 weeks
- Source
- BLS CES via FRED · fred.stlouisfed.org ↗
- Vintage
- FRED download 2026-11-06
- Pipeline
- automated download
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