Southern California’s average pay hike? $2 a week

If your pay raise has felt a little thin, you weren’t alone.
Newly released federal employment stats show Southern California’s average weekly wage was $1,086 in last year’s third quarter. That’s up $2 weekly in a year, or a hike of 0.17 percent.
That disheartening news comes from my trusty spreadsheet’s review of the so-called “quarterly census of employment and wages,” which uses data from a study of unemployment insurance filings. It takes t