Sutter County had an average of 32,108 payroll jobs a month in January–March 2026, public and private, +899 (+2.9%) from a year earlier. Of those, 26,968 were private-sector jobs, +810 (+3.1%). Over the same year, private payroll jobs changed +0.9% in California and +0.3% nationally.
Biggest changes
Left out of the ranking until checked: 5 private industries above the size floor whose weekly pay moved 15% or more in a year; the notes name them. Among private industries with at least 100 jobs this quarter, these gained or lost the most jobs over the year, ranked by the number of jobs:
| Industry | Jobs | Change | % change | Same industry statewide, % change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Social assistance (child care, family services, food banks) | 2,318 | +191 | +9.0% | +8.7% |
| Machinery manufacturing | 429 | +176 | +69.6% | −4.4% |
| Company headquarters and management offices | 471 | +157 | +50.0% | +3.8% |
| Car and parts dealers | 591 | −148 | −20.0% | −1.2% |
| Crop production (farms growing crops) | 1,716 | +124 | +7.8% | +1.3% |
| Administrative and support services (staffing agencies, security, janitorial) | 1,016 | +97 | +10.6% | −0.5% |
| Farm and forestry support (contract crews and services for farms, ranches and forests) | 929 | +87 | +10.3% | +4.5% |
| Nursing and residential care (nursing homes, assisted living, group homes) | 1,122 | +81 | +7.8% | +4.0% |
Changes in direction and pace
- Machinery manufacturing: a reversal, from −115 jobs the year before to +176 this year.
- Farm and forestry support (contract crews and services for farms, ranches and forests): a reversal, from −145 jobs the year before to +87 this year.
- Crop production (farms growing crops): a reversal, from −94 jobs the year before to +124 this year.
- Administrative and support services (staffing agencies, security, janitorial): a reversal, from −84 jobs the year before to +97 this year.
- Company headquarters and management offices: more jobs added than the year before, from +18 jobs the year before to +157 this year.
- Educational services (private schools, colleges, training): 5 years in a row of gains in the first quarter.
- Wholesale of nondurable goods (distributors of food, fuel, farm supplies): 4 years in a row of losses in the first quarter.
- Furniture and electronics stores: 4 years in a row of losses in the first quarter.
- Company headquarters and management offices: 4 years in a row of gains in the first quarter.
- Nursing and residential care (nursing homes, assisted living, group homes): 4 years in a row of gains in the first quarter.
Notes
- Series note: in hospitals, average weekly pay went from $1,366 to $2,839 and jobs from 353 to 499 in a year. Changes this large are consistent with employers being reclassified between industry codes, so the industry is treated as a possible series break, not a trend, and left out of the rankings.
- Left out of the ranking, since average weekly pay changed by 15% or more in a year: transportation support (freight arrangement, towing, airport services); banking and lending (banks, credit unions, lenders); ambulatory health care (doctors' offices, clinics, home health); amusement, gambling and recreation (casinos, gyms, golf courses).
How we calculated this
Changes compare a period with the same period a year earlier.Show 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.Show 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
Direction and pace compare this year's job change with last year's, quarter to same quarter.Show the formula
pace = change(this year) − change(last year). Reversal: the two changes have opposite signs. Acceleration: same direction, larger change. Deceleration: same direction, smaller or equal change. Flagged when |pace| ≥ 100 and the industry has at least 100 jobs.
A streak counts consecutive years of change in the same direction for the same quarter, in years the industry met the ranking's size floor.Show the formula
streak = number of consecutive years, ending this year, whose change from the year before has the same sign (no change ends a streak); jobs must meet the ranking's size floor in every year of it, the base year included.
An industry whose weekly pay moves 15% or more in a year is left out of rankings until checked; one whose pay moves 50% or more while its jobs move 30% or more is treated as a possible reclassification.Show the formula
Review when |weekly pay % change| ≥ 15. Possible reclassification when |weekly pay % change| ≥ 50 and |jobs % change| ≥ 30.
Industries are ranked by job change only if they had at least 100 jobs in the quarter shown.Show the formula
Size floor for job rankings = 100
A change in pace is flagged when this year's job change differs from last year's by 100 or more jobs.Show the formula
Change in pace = 100
Only industries with at least 100 jobs are checked for changes in direction or pace.Show the formula
Size floor for changes in pace = 100
A run of 3 or more years moving the same way, compared quarter to same quarter, is called out.Show the formula
Streaks called out = 3
These figures cover payroll jobs reported to the state's unemployment insurance program. Self-employed workers, most religious organizations and uniformed military are not included. The state does not publish figures that would identify an employer, so some industries are missing from the tables.
Source: California EDD, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, data released 2026-10-01.
