Los Angeles Union Case Study

The estimated average annual earnings of Los Angeles union members in 2007 were $41,682 and in 2007 the earnings of Los Angeles union members exceed the earnings of their non-union counterparts in the same occupations $7.2 billion for all 818,633 union workers and the network of economic activity that relies on LA’s 818,633 union workers encompasses roughly 30 percent of the county economy, including 1.6 million workers, or 30 percent of all jobs, including self-employed workers, $34 billion in employee compensation, or 31 percent of all wages earned by employees, $29 billion in income to business owners, or 28 percent of all owner income, $113 billion in economic output, or 28 percent of LA County’s total output, $68 billion in added value