In 2025, workers in California\u2019s private-sector, nonfarm businesses increased productivity by 4.2%, accounting for nearly one-third of the nation\u2019s 1.8% productivity increase. In the evaluation of all 50 states and the District of Columbia, California was one of only two states to post productivity gains exceeding 4%.\u00a0<\/p>\n
California\u2019s productivity gains coincided with strong job growth, with the state adding\u00a0131,534 jobs over the past year<\/a>\u2014more than any other state during the same period. The Golden State is also home to\u00a0four of the nation\u2019s fastest-growing job markets<\/a>\u00a0through the first quarter of 2026.<\/p>\n California\u2019s economy is dominating<\/p>\n The Golden State continues to lead the nation economically, outpacing all states and every developed nation, according to a recent Bloomberg\u00a0analysis<\/a>. In 2025, California continued a 16-year growth streak, growing faster than the second-largest state, Texas.<\/p>\n California also has more businesses than any other state, including Florida and Texas, supporting strong job creation and expanded economic opportunity for workers across the state. California is home to more than\u00a04.3 million small businesses<\/a>, representing 99.8% of all businesses in the state and employing 7.6 million people.<\/p>\n And California continues to lead the nation as the #1 state across key areas of economic strength and innovation, including:\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2025, workers in California\u2019s private-sector, nonfarm businesses increased productivity by 4.2%, accounting for nearly one-third of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":733472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,101],"class_list":["post-733471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}