The report, released Wednesday by the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corp., says that since 2007, L.A. County has lost 89,000 manufacturing jobs, which had an average wage of $70,100 in 2016. L.A. County had a total of almost 4.4 million jobs last year, an increase of 2.1% compared with 2015, according to the report. The average wage for food service jobs last year was $20,000, while the average wage for in-home support service workers was $14,000, according to the report. In L.A. County, manufacturing jobs declined for the third year in 2016, by 6,000. L.A. County’s per-capita income is projected to be $48,790 in 2016, up 9% from $44,922 in 2013, according to the L.A. economic agency.

Source: Los Angeles Times February 22, 2017 14:02 UTC