• San Mateo continues to have one of the lowest unemployment rates in California.
• Nonagricultural wage and salary employment will expand by 10% during the 1989-1996 projection period, representing a gain of 29,400 jobs.
• Services and retail trade, San Mateo County’s two largest industry divisions, together will provide close to three quarters of the growth.
• Business services will add more new jobs than any other single industry component and will represent 30% of the services growth.
• Many of the jobs to be added in restaurants and other retail establishments, particularly at the entry level, will be part-time and/or seasonal positions.
• Air transportation, the county’s largest single industry, will post a seven year gain of 3,900 jobs. However, almost two-thirds of these jobs were filled by mid 1990

• Employers report great difficulty finding experienced auto mechanics, electronic home entertainment equipment repairers, medical transcriptionists, motorcycle repairers, optometric assistants, service writers (automotive), and telephone and cable TV line installers and repairers. (EDD Annual Planning Information, June 1992)

Job Growth by Industry