Professional services industry emerges as major economic driver for the LA Basin

The professional services industry — which includes everything from legal services and accounting to architecture and engineering — has emerged as a major economic driver for the Los Angeles Basin, according to a recent report.
The study from the Center for a Competitive Workforce forecasts that by 2021 the Los Angeles/Orange counties region will have nearly 400,000 payroll jobs in that industry, boosted by 14,000 new jobs that will be created between 2016 and 2021. And nea