SoCal Aerospace & Defense Hiring Report

What’s inside this issue

• The SoCal A&D Openings Index — a same-date count of 2,268 on-site A&D roles across 16 named employers, sourced directly from company career pages — not aggregators.
• Two regions, one market — the LA/OC Aerospace Corridor (1,595 roles) vs. the San Diego Defense Cluster (673), and what each cluster is hiring for.
• What the market pays — BLS wage benchmarks for SoCal aerospace and electronics engineers vs. national.
• Defense spending & the demand signal — the $28.6B national-security flow into LA and San Diego underpinning the openings.
• Risk signals — the WARN watch — active California WARN notices against open roles, and why demand outpaces disclosed layoffs by more than 23 to 1.

Free, published monthly. Subscribe once and we’ll let you know when each new issue is available.