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Región de Los Ángeles Basin

The Los Angeles Basin region is comprised of Los Angeles County.

Top Job Openings 2020-2030

High-Skill Occupations

  • General and Operations Managers:
    • 77,410 projected job openings, $116,463 average annual wage, 1,191 job advertisements.
  • Project Management Specialists and Business Operations Specialists, All Other8:
    • 67,710 projected job openings, $96,887 average annual wage, 523 job advertisements.
  • Registered Nurses:
    • 56,700 projected job openings, $133,260 average annual wage, 4,146 job advertisements.
  • Software Developers and Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers7:
    • 53,650 projected job openings, $142,622 average annual wage, 1,561 job advertisements.
  • Accountants and Auditors:
    • 48,440 projected job openings, $82,587 average annual wage, 745 job advertisements.
 

Middle-Skill Occupations

  • Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers:
    • 57,070 projected job openings, $54,740 average annual wage, 1,159 job advertisements.
  • Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks:
    • 56,280 projected job openings, $50,935 average annual wage, 878 job advertisements.
  • Nursing Assistants:
    • 44,660 projected job openings, $41,261 average annual wage, 648 job advertisements.
  • Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary9:
    • 35,030 projected job openings, $41,336 average annual wage, 484 job advertisements.
  • Medical Assistants:
    • 32,010 projected job openings, $42,091 average annual wage, 757 job advertisements.  
 

Entry-Level Occupations

  • Home Health and Personal Care Aides6:
    • 446,900 projected job openings, $33,549 average annual wage, 1,150 job advertisements.
  • Fast Food and Counter Workers:
    • 251,150 projected job openings, $35,500 average annual wage, 1,541 job advertisements.            
  • Cashiers:
    • 178,890 projected job openings, $34,213 average annual wage, 843 job advertisements.            
  • Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand:
    • 150,470 projected job openings, $37,837 average annual wage, 1,821 job advertisements.             
  • Retail Salespersons:
    • 138,160 projected job openings, $35,432 average annual wage, 3,190 job advertisements.

An image of the California Los Angeles Basin region on a map of California

*The 2018-2028 employment projections do not include impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and response efforts. Employment projections are developed using models based on historical data, which in this set of projections cover the period through 2018; all input data therefore precede the pandemic. Employment projections are long-term projections intended to capture structural change in the economy, not cyclical fluctuations. As such, they are not intended to capture the impacts of the recession that began in February 2020. However, besides the immediate recessionary impacts, the pandemic may cause new structural changes to the economy. Subsequent employment projections will incorporate new information on economic structural changes as it becomes available.

**Wages for Personal Care Aides are taken from the Home Health and Personal Care Aides occupation.

***Wages for Combined Food Preparation and Serving Workers, Including Fast Food are taken from the Food Preparation Workers occupation.