Los Angeles-metro finance jobs, September 2026
Los Angeles-metro financial activities employers had 300,400 people on payroll in September 2026, down 1.7% from a year earlier. That is 4.8% of all payroll jobs in the metro, against 4.9% a year before.
Finance and insurance plus real estate, rental and leasing — banks, insurers, mortgage lenders, brokers and property managers. Real estate and lending also make it sensitive to interest rates in a way most sectors are not.
The two charts answer different questions. The count peaked at 388,900 in December 2005 and says whether the sector is hiring. The share — from 7.0% in January 1990, with a high of 7.1% in August 1990 and a low of 4.8% in September 2026 — says whether it is growing faster or slower than the rest of the economy.
Not seasonally adjusted, so compare a month with the same month a year earlier. The share is computed at read time from two series in the same BLS release, so it stays consistent when the levels are revised.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, State & Area Employment, financial activities and total nonfarm payrolls, Los Angeles–Long Beach–Anaheim MSA, not seasonally adjusted, via FRED (SMU06310805500000001, SMU06310800000000001). The share is derived at read time. Auto-generated each build.