Hollywood is big winner in 2010 job creation

This won't come as much of a surprise to readers of LA Biz Observed - we've been chronicling the pickup in entertainment employment all year. The industry added 13,200 jobs in 2010, a 3.9 percent jump from the previous year. That's among the strongest industry subsectors - and a lot of that action took place in L.A. County, where just a year ago the doomsdayers were fretting that much of Hollywood was being lured out-of-town. Oops. Normally I ignore the month-to-month numbers of on-location shooting because they can be so variable, but it is worth nothing that local production activity rose 37 percent in December compared with a year earlier. (Real Time Economics, LAT)