In fact, research by the UC Berkeley Labor Center reveals a different landscape, and it portends a worrisome future. Not only were more than 35% of workers in California (some 5.6 million people) paid low wages in 2022, but by the state's own forecast, the top eight categories of job growth by 2030 are low-wage occupations-tough jobs that don't pay people enough to live.
This emphasizes the need to improve the quality of these jobs-not just the wage, but the work itself," said Enrique Lopezlira, who directs the center's low-wage work research. "It's about who holds the power, and in a lot of these labor markets, it's not the worker.
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