Hiring Signals

WARN notices, workforce trends, wages, and the labor market shaping who the region employs.

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Rialto adds $1 million in staff to a surplus budget as pension costs climb

Rialto adopted a $175.9 million General Fund budget for 2026-27 with a projected surplus, then spent roughly $1 million of it on new permanent positions — weighted toward development-review capacity and toward moving work off contractors and sworn officers. Behind the surplus sits an $18.3 million CalPERS pension bill that keeps rising faster than the rest of the city's costs.

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Rialto adds $1 million in staff to a surplus budget as pension costs climb
Menifee passes Temecula and Murrieta — but on rooftops, not jobs
The IE is training workers for a manufacturing sector that's shrinking
One sector is holding up the IE jobs number, and it isn't logistics
Warehouse footprint hits 1 billion square feet as the jobs it once promised keep falling
IE unemployment falls to 4.6% as the labor force shrinks and health care carries the job market
IE manufacturing employment falls 4.1% as national factory activity hits four-year high
Material-handling automation firm Hy-Tek to cut 200 at Hesperia operation
Leggett & Platt to close Ontario flooring-products plant, 125 jobs
A new Fontana EV truck plant bets on state programs as federal support fades
IE logistics jobs keep falling as the ports run near record volume
Lennar's margin squeeze runs through the IE's busiest homebuilder footprint
The Inland Empire trains 42 primary care doctors per 100,000 people. Its hospitals are done waiting for more to arrive.
Why the Inland Empire can't join the work-from-anywhere economy
The IE's Gen Z Problem Isn't the One in the Headlines
The national nurse-shortage panic doesn't fit the Inland Empire's RN forecast
Kaiser's $1B strike bill lands on Fontana, Riverside, and Ontario
The Inland Empire's restaurant wages run below the coast, weakening the local case for service robots
The IE's in-demand jobs are the ones short-term Pell was built to screen out
IE job postings drop below pre-pandemic levels for the first time since 2021
GXO shuts a San Bernardino warehouse, cutting 31 jobs
TeamOne to cut 725 staffing jobs in Moreno Valley
IE unemployment falls as hiring picks up across both counties
Redlands Unified cuts 24 more teaching staff, 43 this month
Calvary Murrieta Christian School closes Friday, ending 33-year run
Geodis lays off 238 at Rialto warehouse as IE freight cuts mount
Chino Hills Chick-fil-A files WARN for 98 temporary layoffs
Frito-Lay shuts its Rancho Cucamonga warehouse, ending a 56-year run
Liberty Healthcare files WARN for 113 San Bernardino layoffs
ShipMonk closes its San Bernardino warehouse, 145 jobs cut

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