J01Monthly · index, 2019 average = 100 (seasonally adjusted)
California jobs: total vs. excluding health care & social assistance
Seasonally adjusted payroll jobs. One series removes health care and social assistance. Industry is the employer, not the worker’s occupation.
Not fucked
Inside its 2017–19 range · flat latelyJudged on “Excluding health care & social assistance”. Fewer jobs outside health care is bad. Latest 14,957 vs 2017–19 range 14,387–15,111.
How verdicts work →Excluding health care & social ass
14,957thousands of jobs · Sep 2026 · preliminaryExcluding health/social AND leisur
12,916thousands of jobs · Sep 2026 · preliminaryTotal nonfarm
18,152thousands of jobs · Sep 2026 · preliminaryDashed / hollow = preliminary or estimate
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What this is
Each line is divided by its own 2019 average and multiplied by 100. Thousands of jobs are stored in data/J01.csv.
- Unit
- index, 2019 average = 100 (seasonally adjusted)
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Geography
- California
- Coverage
- From 1 Jan 2016 · latest observation 1 Sep 2026
- Release
- Monthly, ~3rd Friday (state release); annual benchmark revision each March
- Typical lag
- ~7 weeks
- Source
- BLS CES State and Area (api.bls.gov v1) · www.bls.gov ↗
- Vintage
- BLS API pull; latest month Sep 2026
- Pipeline
- automated (BLS API v1, no key; 4 requests per run)
Every observation in this file
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