Los Angeles County · California
Long Beach, CA jobs and wages
Who works here, what they earn, and which industries carry the local economy — Census ACS estimates for the city itself, not the wider metro.
Quick answer
Workers in Long Beach, CA earn a median of $44,746 a year, 0% above the national median of $44,587. Unemployment is 6.5% against 5.2% nationally, and education, health care & social assistance is the largest employer at 23.7% of jobs.
- Median earnings
- $44,746#35 of 94 metros
- Unemployment rate
- 6.5%US 5.2%
- Labor force participation
- 66.6%US 63.5%
- People employed
- 234,334Civilian employed, age 16+
What Long Beach does for a living
Share of the civilian employed population by industry, largest first.
- Education, health care & social assistance23.7%
- Professional, scientific & management13.9%
- Arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodation & food10.9%
- Retail trade9.8%
- Manufacturing9.2%
- Transportation, warehousing & utilities8.1%
- Construction5.6%
- Finance, insurance & real estate5.1%
- Other services, except public administration4.7%
- Public administration3.8%
- Information2.5%
- Wholesale trade2.4%
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing, hunting & mining0.3%
Related data for Long Beach
Earnings only mean something next to what things cost.
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates
Tables B23025, B20002 and C24030, 2019-2023 ACS 5-year. Industry shares combine the male and female columns of C24030 and are rounded, so they may not total exactly 100%.