Shasta County: average local government jobs changed little from a year earlier, at 10,124, in January–March 2026

This is Sidekick's data series, which covers the raw numbers behind life in Shasta County: jobs, pay, sales and housing. Each article is built from official public statistics. We report what the numbers show without editorializing: just the numbers, as the agencies report them.

Average local government jobs in Shasta County came to 10,124 in January–March 2026, +2 (0.0%) from a year earlier.

In context

Compared with a year earlier, the same figure changed +1.4% for California as a whole and +0.6% nationally. Of every first-quarter figure since 2004, this one included, 70% were at or below this one.

How we calculated this

• Changes compare a period with the same period a year earlier.iShow the formula

  change = value(this period) − value(same period last year); % change = change ÷ value(same period last year) × 100

• County figures are shown next to California and the United States for the same period, where the source publishes them.iShow the formula

  the same measure for California and the United States in the same period; where a change is shown for them, the same change formula

• Records and percentiles compare a value with every value for the same month or quarter, up to and including this one.iShow the formula

  percentile = share of same-month (or same-quarter) values up to and including this one that are at or below it × 100

• Jobs and business-location counts below 200 are not written up; numbers that small swing a lot from year to year.iShow the formula

  Smallest count written up = 200

• A change of less than 0.5% either way from a year earlier is reported as little changed.iShow the formula

  Little changed = 0.5

• Records and percentiles need at least 10 earlier same-season values.iShow the formula

  History needed = 10

These figures come from employers' reports to the state's unemployment insurance program, which leave out the self-employed, most religious organizations and uniformed military. County totals include employers whose own figures the state keeps confidential.

Government jobs are counted where the work is; public schools and community colleges are local government, the University of California and CSU are state government.

Local government includes tribal governments and the businesses they run, such as casinos, so hiring at a tribal casino counts here.

Source: California EDD, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, data released 2026-10-01.