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The Architecture and Related Services sector proved to be resilient a year into the COVID-19 crisis. After shedding 52,000 jobs nationally in 2020, firms added a remarkable 670,000 jobs in 2021, the highest annual increase since 2006. Moreover, the number of businesses in Architecture and Related Services increased by roughly 8% from January of 2019 to April 2021, with no noticeable decrease during the pandemic.
Of the Architecture and Related Services four subsectors, Architectural Services constitutes a small share of industry employment – 15% in California and 19.4% in Los Angeles County – and is only larger than the Landscape Architectural Services subsector, which makes up roughly 4% of the workforce in the state and county. The Related Architectural Services subsector accounts for 58% of total employment in California and 42% in Los Angeles County, followed by Specialized Design Services at 22.4% and 34.7%, respectively.
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