Restaurant and hotel jobs, September 2026
San Jose-metro restaurants, bars, hotels and venues employed 105,200 people in September 2026, up 2.4% from a year earlier — 8.9% of all payroll jobs in the metro.
No other series on this site records 2020 as plainly. Employment in this sector fell to 53,100 in April 2020 — a drop of roughly half, inside two months, in an industry that cannot be done from home — and its share of the region’s jobs fell to 5.3%. Everything to the right of that notch is the recovery.
The share chart is the longer story: from 6.9% when the series opens in January 1990 to a peak of 9.6% in July 2019.
Not seasonally adjusted, and summer is genuinely the busy season here, so compare with the same month a year earlier. The share is computed at read time from the same BLS release as the count.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, State & Area Employment, leisure and hospitality and total nonfarm payrolls, San Jose–Sunnyvale–Santa Clara MSA, not seasonally adjusted, via FRED. The share is derived at read time. Auto-generated each build.