Bosses seem to like hiring in the state they like to hate.
And that meant 2022 was a solid year for California’s job seekers.
My trusty spreadsheet, filled with 47 years of annual federal jobs data compiled by the St. Louis Fed, tells me that California bosses added 842,000 employees in 2022.
How big was that? Well, this new “staff” equals roughly all the workers in New Mexico or Idaho.
And it was the most workers added by any state, a ranking California has earned in 25 in the past 47 years. Texas was No. 2 at 732,000 and then came Florida with 477,500 new workers.
Yes, California’s employment