J08Monthly · thousands of jobs vs. same month a year earlier (SA)
12-month job change: total vs. health/social vs. all other industries (California)
Twelve-month change. All other industries is its own series in this file. A positive latest year does not erase the longer window.
Kind of fucked
Worse than its 2017–19 range · improvingJudged on “All other industries”. Judged by the scored job-breadth reading. Scored reading: Job growth outside health care +12.5k jobs vs a year earlier.
How verdicts work →All other industries
24thousands of jobs vs same month a year earlier · Sep 2026 · preliminaryHealth care & social assistance
105.3thousands of jobs vs same month a year earlier · Sep 2026 · preliminaryLeisure & hospitality
28.7thousands of jobs vs same month a year earlier · 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 differences of SA series. The 2020-21 swings are clipped and labeled.
- Unit
- thousands of jobs vs. same month a year earlier (SA)
- 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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