Despite these numbers, not all jobs are created equal. There is still a huge economic hit to the area when a 50-75k/yr job is replaced by a good hotel job paying $8/hr.

“The mix of jobs available in San Diego region continues to shift toward low-paying, part-time jobs,” he said. “By contrast, our region continues to lose solid middle-class jobs in manufacturing, construction, transportation and utilities.”

This is just more support for my opnion that the middle income areas like poway, clarmont, MM, will be the hardest hit of all. The traditional middle class areas rely on middle income people with young families. If they cant make good incomes here, they will go somewhere else.