It turns out that more people worked for less money in Inland Southern California during 2018. As the graph below shows, the four largest occupation categories in the region tended to pay lower wages. For example, office and administrative support workers, including secretaries, clerks, and data entry staff, were the largest employment group in Riverside and San Bernardino counties. If they worked full time, meaning forty hours per week, these workers earned a median wage of approximately $36,000 per year. The second largest job category in Riverside and San Bernardino counties was the transporation and material moving occupations. Many of the workers in this occupation category are employed by the region's large warehousing and logistics sector. Workers in this category earned a median annual wage of $32,000. Again, they earned less if they worked less than forty hours per week.
Meanwhile, the highest paying occupations employed a much smaller share of the region's workers. Only six out of twenty-two job categories pay a basic family living wage for a single parent with two children (Economic Policy Institute).
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