CREATE Metric

Employment in the creative industries

In 2020, 402,465 people in the Los Angeles region were directly employed in the creative industries (16 percent of the workforce), with 797,075 total jobs (direct, indirect, and induced).

Source: Otis Report on the Creative Economy

Our target

The share of employees employed directly in the creative industries will be approximately 20 percent of the region’s workforce.

Percentage of employees employed directly in creative industries.

2020

16%

LA2050 Target

2050

20%