Seasonally Adjusted Regional Employment
Statistics for California’s
Metropolitan Statistical Areas

NOVEMBER 2008

EMPLOYMENT OVERVIEW   UNEMPLOYMENT OVERVIEW   EMPLOYMENT BY INDUSTRY

State Summary

Total Employment:	15,415,760		Change from October:	-46,250
Total Non-Farm Employment:	15,022,390		Change from October:	-48,240
Unemployment Rate:	8.3%		Change from October:	0.0%

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State Employment Overview

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Nov-08	Nov Non-Farm Payroll	Oct to Nov	Sep to Oct	Current Quarter Total (000s)  %AR		Previous Quarter Total (000s)  %AR		Year to date 2008 %AR 2007 %AR
	(Thousands)
California	15,022.4	-48.2	-11.5	-56.8 -1.5		-45.5 -1.2		-0.9 0.0
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Los Angeles	4,086.7	-11.3	-3.1	-7.7 -0.7		-6.7 -0.7		-0.4 -0.3
Orange County	1,464.6	-5.4	-6.7	-14.1 -3.7		-10.2 -2.7		-2.5 -1.8
San Diego	1,293.9	-7.7	0.8	-6.4 -1.9		-1.6 -0.5		-1.1 0.1
Riverside	1,229.7	-10.2	-7.1	-9.2 -2.9		-2.0 -0.6		-2.7 -0.7
Ventura	287.4	-1.2	0.9	-1.1 -1.5		-2.2 -3.0		-2.0 -1.7
El Centro	46.1	-0.6	0.0	0.6 5.7		0.3 2.4		0.6 3.1
BAY REGION
Oakland	1,024.4	-1.6	-1.7	-4.5 -1.7		-8.2 -3.1		-2.4 0.1
San Francisco	993.1	-2.5	-1.4	-3.7 -1.5		-1.4 -0.6		-0.2 2.1
San Jose	908.4	-4.4	-0.1	2.1 0.9		-4.4 -1.9		-0.2 1.5
Santa Rosa	190.0	-0.2	0.8	-1.2 -2.4		-0.4 -0.9		-0.8 0.5
Napa	62.9	-0.2	0.3	-0.1 -0.3		-0.7 -4.6		-1.4 -0.1
NORTH CENTRAL VALLEY
Sacramento	892.4	-1.9	1.4	-3.5 -1.5		-6.1 -2.7		-1.6 0.6
Stockton	209.5	-0.5	-1.0	-1.6 -2.9		-2.3 -4.2		-2.7 1.4
Vallejo	125.1	0.1	0.3	-0.4 -1.3		-0.5 -1.5		-1.8 -0.5
Chico	75.5	-0.2	-0.6	-1.8 -9.2		-0.1 -0.5		-1.8 0.0
Redding	63.7	-0.7	-0.3	-0.8 -4.8		-0.8 -4.6		-4.2 1.8
Yuba	39.6	-0.1	0.2	-0.3 -2.6		-1.2 -11.4		-6.8 -1.5
CENTRAL COAST
Santa Barbara	173.9	0.8	-0.6	0.2 0.6		-0.2 -0.4		-0.1 1.4
Salinas	129.7	-0.5	0.2	0.6 1.9		-0.4 -1.3		0.0 1.5
San Luis Obispo	102.6	-0.5	-0.1	-0.5 -2.0		-0.8 -3.0		-2.7 0.9
Santa Cruz	96.4	-0.3	0.3	-0.9 -3.8		0.4 1.6		-1.6 3.2
SOUTH CENTRAL VALLEY
Fresno	302.1	-2.7	0.5	-2.0 -2.5		-2.3 -3.0		-1.4 0.2
Bakersfield	242.4	-0.1	0.3	0.3 0.6		0.4 0.6		0.9 1.2
Modesto	158.1	0.6	-0.7	-0.3 -0.9		-1.2 -3.0		-1.5 -0.4
Visalia	112.2	-0.2	0.5	0.0 -0.1		-0.5 -1.8		-1.3 -0.2
Merced	60.3	0.2	0.4	0.3 1.9		0.0 -0.2		1.0 1.8
Hanford	36.1	-0.2	-0.1	-0.1 -0.6		0.1 1.5		1.3 3.4
Madera	35.0	0.1	-0.2	-0.4 -4.1		-0.4 -4.4		-1.8 0.7

State Unemployment Overview

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Nov-08	Nov Total	Oct to Nov	Sep to Oct	Current Quarter Level   Ch		Previous Quarter Level   Ch		Previous Years Nov07 Nov06
California	8.3	0.0	0.6	8.1 0.8		7.3 0.8		5.6 4.7
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Los Angeles	8.6	0.2	0.7	8.3 0.8		7.5 1.3		5.0 4.3
Orange County	6.2	0.0	0.3	6.0 0.7		5.4 0.5		4.3 3.4
San Diego	6.9	-0.1	0.5	6.8 0.7		6.1 0.6		4.9 4.0
Riverside	9.5	-0.1	0.5	9.4 1.0		8.4 0.8		6.3 5.0
Ventura	7.2	-0.1	0.5	7.1 0.7		6.4 0.5		5.3 4.3
El Centro	22.5	-3.4	1.0	24.5 0.7		23.8 2.1		18.8 16.2
BAY REGION
Oakland	7.3	0.1	0.4	7.1 0.8		6.3 0.7		5.0 4.3
San Francisco	5.8	0.1	0.3	5.6 0.6		5.0 0.5		4.1 3.8
San Jose	7.1	0.0	0.6	7.0 0.8		6.2 0.6		4.9 4.4
Santa Rosa	6.6	0.1	0.4	6.4 0.6		5.7 0.6		4.6 3.9