J06Monthly · index, 2019 = 100 (12-month average of NSA levels)
Los Angeles County jobs: total vs. excluding health care & social assistance
Los Angeles County only. Not seasonally adjusted where the source is NSA, and never added to the statewide seasonally adjusted total.
Kind of fucked
Worse than its 2017–19 range · improvingJudged on “Excluding health care & social assistance”. Fewer LA jobs outside health care is bad. Scored reading: LA jobs outside health care −0.29 % vs a year earlier.
How verdicts work →Excluding health care & social ass
3,703thousands of jobs · Sep 2026 · preliminaryExcluding health/social AND leisur
3,161thousands of jobs · Sep 2026 · preliminaryHealth care & social assistance
890.7thousands of jobs · Sep 2026 · preliminaryDashed / hollow = preliminary or estimate
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Where this sits in the reading
Position versus 2017–19 is descriptive. “Within range” doesn’t mean acceptable — 2017–19 may itself have been strained.
What this is
12-month trailing averages; each / its 2019 average x 100. Subtractions use same-month NSA values (additive).
- Unit
- index, 2019 = 100 (12-month average of NSA levels)
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Geography
- Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale MD (= LA County)
- Coverage
- From 1 Jan 2016 · latest observation 1 Sep 2026
- Release
- Monthly, ~2 weeks after the state release
- Typical lag
- ~8 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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