Restaurant and hotel jobs, September 2026
San Francisco-metro restaurants, bars, hotels and venues employed 258,300 people in September 2026, up 2.3% from a year earlier — 10.7% of all payroll jobs in the metro.
No other series on this site records 2020 as plainly. Employment in this sector fell to 126,900 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 6.0%. Everything to the right of that notch is the recovery.
The share chart is the longer story: from 8.6% when the series opens in January 1990 to a peak of 11.7% in August 2014.
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 Francisco–Oakland–Fremont MSA, not seasonally adjusted, via FRED. The share is derived at read time. Auto-generated each build.