Bay Area hiring surges in June, powered by big South Bay job gains

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The Bay Area economy added jobs at a brisk pace in June, raising hopes that the region’s employment picture is turning brighter after being jolted by losses back in March, a new state government report shows.

Robust gains in Santa Clara County helped power the Bay Area to a gain of 9,200 jobs in June, the state Employment Development Department reported Friday. That represented nearly 80% of all the jobs added in California for the month.

“The Bay Area is once again assuming the outsized employment role it played throughout much of the 2021 and 2022 recovery in California as a main driver of job growth,” said Michael Bernick, an employment attorney with law firm Duane Morris and a former director of the state EDD.

Steve Levy, director of the Palo Alto-based Center for Continuing Study of the California Economy, noted that the June job total was the highest on record for the region and Silicon Valley.

The good news comes at least partly because the tech layoffs that have hounded the region’s economy since early 2022 have tailed off, a Beacon Economics industry-specific analysis of the EDD report shows. In fact, the Bay Area tech industry added a small number of jobs in April, May and June after significant losses in the first quarter of the year, according to the Beacon analysis.

Overall, the Bay Area has now added jobs for three consecutive months after losing jobs in March, although the increase in June was somewhat weaker than the upswing in May, the EDD report for the overall job sector shows.

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