JOBS

  More Diversification Needed
Solano County is currently faced with steep job losses resetting employment levels to those seen in 2001. Solano’s diversified economy has helped to weather the storm of the recent downturn.
     
  What Does this Mean?
Solano County has benefited from positive change in monthly jobs until the most recent reported year, but has fared better than the state as a whole.
     
  What Does this Mean?
Employment of Solano County residents follows state trends and fares better than the rest of the San Francisco Bay Area.
     
  Unemployment slowed
Reflecting statewide and regional trends, unemployment slowed from November 2009 to 2010. However, 1,000 residents were added to the unemployment rolls.