The United States is currently in the throes of a skilled trades worker shortage. Across the board, the country doesn’t have enough qualified electricians, plumbers, HVAC technicians, and carpenters to meet the demand. One recent study found that many of the most in-demand jobs remain unfilled for at least a month. This comes as millions of Americans who were laid off during the early days of the coronavirus are looking for work.

That being said, not all job markets are the same. While it should be fairly easy to find work in all 50 states, how much that work pays is different depending on the state. To find the states where home service workers are paid the most, ServiceTitan analyzed June 2020 data from Payscale. The average salary of a home service worker was calculated by averaging the pay of entry-, intermediate-, and senior-level workers in each state. HVAC technicians, plumbers, and electricians were all included in the dataset, which can be seen nationally here.

California by the numbers

– Average yearly salary: $59,511 ($28.61 hourly)
— Plumbers: $58,400 ($28.08 hourly)
— Plumber pay increase from entry to senior level: $15,100 ($7.26 hourly)
— HVAC technician: $59,433 ($28.57 hourly)
— HVAC technician pay increase from entry to senior level: $17,800 ($8.56 hourly)
— Electrician: $60,700 ($29.18 hourly)
— Electrician pay increase from entry to senior level: $17,900 ($8.61 hourly)

There’s a gap between knowing an industry needs workers and actually getting workers into the industry. California is investing $200 million into the improvement of the delivery of vocational education—education that can add tens of thousands of dollars to an average trade worker’s salary. However, the sheer size of California means that not all metro areas are created equal for home service workers. The San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward metropolitan area is the highest-paying in the nation for both electricians and plumbers, and fourth-highest for HVAC technicians.

The San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara and Merced areas, meanwhile, are also in the top 10 metros in the nation for electricians, while San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara ranks high for plumbers, and HVAC techs fare well in the Napa, Santa Cruz-Watsonville, San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, and Santa Maria-Santa Barbara metros. Plus, the overall state employment for plumbers is expected to grow 12.4% by 2028. But it’s not all rosy: The premium placed on home service workers’ pay is partially explained by the fact that California has the nation’s third-highest cost of living.

Check the statistics below to discover where your talents are valued the most and least, and to get a better handle on whether or not making a move for your career would be worth it.

States that pay home service workers the most

#1. Alaska: $61,156 average yearly salary ($29.40 hourly)
#2. Massachusetts: $59,700 average yearly salary ($28.70 hourly)
#3. California: $59,511 average yearly salary ($28.61 hourly)

States that pay home service workers the least

#1. Arkansas: $47,944 average yearly salary ($23.05 hourly)
#2. West Virginia: $48,178 average yearly salary ($23.16 hourly)
#3. Idaho: $49,433 average yearly salary ($23.77 hourly)

This story originally appeared on ServiceTitan and was produced and distributed in partnership with Stacker Studio.

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From the moment they arrive on campus, today’s high school students are inundated with messages about the importance of receiving a college education. They hear it from their guidance counselors, teachers, parents, family members, neighbors, and coaches. While graduation from a four-year college can certainly work wonders for students’ future careers, it’s not necessary for all fields — something admissions officers and guidance counselors sometimes fail to mention.

To find the highest paying jobs in Shreveport that don’t require a college degree, Stacker consulted the Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Outlook Handbook to compile a list of all jobs that don’t require higher education. All professions that listed a high school diploma, some college education (without a degree conferred), postsecondary nondegree award, or no formal education requirements for entry-level positions were considered. Jobs that didn’t list any entry-level education requirement were excluded, as were job titles that grouped several positions together. Jobs are ranked by 2021 annual mean wage.

Keep reading to discover the highest paying jobs in Shreveport-Bossier City, LA that don’t require a college degree.

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#50. Postal service mail sorters, processors, and processing machine operators

Shreveport-Bossier City, LA
– Annual mean salary: $47,770
– #173 highest pay among all metros
– Employment: 460

National
– Annual mean salary: $51,010
– Employment: 112,130
– Metros with highest average pay:
— Huntsville, AL ($55,830)
— San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA ($55,260)
— Wausau, WI ($55,060)

#49. Logging equipment operators

Shreveport-Bossier City, LA
– Annual mean salary: $47,820
– #33 highest pay among all metros
– Employment: 70

National
– Annual mean salary: $43,960
– Employment: 25,510
– Metros with highest average pay:
— Santa Rosa, CA ($64,000)
— Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA ($62,910)
— Longview, WA ($62,780)

#48. Electric motor, power tool, and related repairers

Shreveport-Bossier City, LA
– Annual mean salary: $47,910
– #34 highest pay among all metros
– Employment: 50

National
– Annual mean salary: $48,740
– Employment: 15,880
– Metros with highest average pay:
— Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI ($78,200)
— Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT ($69,720)
— San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA ($69,320)

#47. Heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers

Shreveport-Bossier City, LA
– Annual mean salary: $48,060
– #274 highest pay among all metros
– Employment: 2,600

National
– Annual mean salary: $50,340
– Employment: 1,903,420
– Metros with highest average pay:
— Cape Girardeau, MO-IL ($62,600)
— San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA ($62,290)
— San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA ($61,540)

#46. Chefs and head cooks

Shreveport-Bossier City, LA
– Annual mean salary: $48,560
– #286 highest pay among all metros
– Employment: 100

National
– Annual mean salary: $56,920
– Employment: 129,810
– Metros with highest average pay:
— Leominster-Gardner, MA ($81,020)
— San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA ($79,600)
— Kahului-Wailuku-Lahaina, HI ($79,430)

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#45. Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers

Shreveport-Bossier City, LA
– Annual mean salary: $48,960
– #84 highest pay among all metros
– Employment: 640

National
– Annual mean salary: $44,810
– Employment: 551,380
– Metros with highest average pay:
— Odessa, TX ($70,950)
— Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA ($66,260)
— Bismarck, ND ($64,940)

#44. Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers

Shreveport-Bossier City, LA
– Annual mean salary: $49,010
– #132 highest pay among all metros
– Employment: 770

National
– Annual mean salary: $48,290
– Employment: 397,600
– Metros with highest average pay:
— Fairbanks, AK ($72,500)
— Anchorage, AK ($71,840)
— Urban Honolulu, HI ($66,920)

#43. Production, planning, and expediting clerks

Shreveport-Bossier City, LA
– Annual mean salary: $49,110
– #275 highest pay among all metros
– Employment: 130

National
– Annual mean salary: $52,220
– Employment: 367,200
– Metros with highest average pay:
— Idaho Falls, ID ($74,970)
— Norwich-New London-Westerly, CT-RI ($71,160)
— Bremerton-Silverdale, WA ($67,140)

#42. Electricians

Shreveport-Bossier City, LA
– Annual mean salary: $49,220
– #417 highest pay among all metros
– Employment: 770

National
– Annual mean salary: $63,310
– Employment: 650,580
– Metros with highest average pay:
— San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA ($93,900)
— San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA ($91,090)
— Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI ($86,600)

#41. Computer user support specialists

Shreveport-Bossier City, LA
– Annual mean salary: $49,310
– #322 highest pay among all metros
– Employment: 370

National
– Annual mean salary: $57,650
– Employment: 654,310
– Metros with highest average pay:
— Sacramento–Roseville–Arden-Arcade, CA ($90,480)
— San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA ($76,920)
— San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA ($76,510)

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#40. Maintenance workers, machinery

Shreveport-Bossier City, LA
– Annual mean salary: $49,750
– #181 highest pay among all metros
– Employment: 140

National
– Annual mean salary: $53,570
– Employment: 57,660
– Metros with highest average pay:
— Savannah, GA ($76,260)
— Cedar Rapids, IA ($70,980)
— San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA ($69,980)

#39. Electrical and electronics installers and repairers, transportation equipment

Shreveport-Bossier City, LA
– Annual mean salary: $50,000
– #23 highest pay among all metros
– Employment: 30

National
– Annual mean salary: $70,650
– Employment: 10,710
– Metros with highest average pay:
— San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA ($89,080)
— Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA ($87,130)
— Boston-Cambridge-Nashua, MA-NH ($86,160)

#38. Mixing and blending machine setters, operators, and tenders

Shreveport-Bossier City, LA
– Annual mean salary: $50,510
– #18 highest pay among all metros
– Employment: 30

National
– Annual mean salary: $42,490
– Employment: 108,440
– Metros with highest average pay:
— Vallejo-Fairfield, CA ($60,690)
— San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA ($59,040)
— San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA ($57,940)

#37. First-line supervisors of office and administrative support workers

Shreveport-Bossier City, LA
– Annual mean salary: $50,670
– #453 highest pay among all metros
– Employment: 2,060

National
– Annual mean salary: $63,380
– Employment: 1,443,630
– Metros with highest average pay:
— San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA ($82,050)
— Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA ($79,520)
— San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA ($78,430)

#36. Machinists

Shreveport-Bossier City, LA
– Annual mean salary: $51,110
– #102 highest pay among all metros
– Employment: 350

National
– Annual mean salary: $49,020
– Employment: 333,220
– Metros with highest average pay:
— Urban Honolulu, HI ($71,070)
— Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV ($69,300)
— Monroe, MI ($66,560)

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#35. Heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration mechanics and installers

Shreveport-Bossier City, LA
– Annual mean salary: $51,270
– #233 highest pay among all metros
– Employment: 460

National
– Annual mean salary: $54,690
– Employment: 356,960
– Metros with highest average pay:
— San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA ($78,020)
— Fairbanks, AK ($76,750)
— San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA ($71,710)

#34. Real estate sales agents

Shreveport-Bossier City, LA
– Annual mean salary: $51,320
– #228 highest pay among all metros
– Employment: 120

National
– Annual mean salary: $61,480
– Employment: 175,920
– Metros with highest average pay:
— Midland, TX ($100,060)
— Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk, CT ($99,880)
— Worcester, MA-CT ($93,400)

#33. Mobile heavy equipment mechanics, except engines

Shreveport-Bossier City, LA
– Annual mean salary: $53,040
– #269 highest pay among all metros
– Employment: 180

National
– Annual mean salary: $57,280
– Employment: 145,230
– Metros with highest average pay:
— Fairbanks, AK ($86,740)
— Urban Honolulu, HI ($82,520)
— New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA ($79,470)

#32. Advertising sales agents

Shreveport-Bossier City, LA
– Annual mean salary: $53,080
– #172 highest pay among all metros
– Employment: 80

National
– Annual mean salary: $66,540
– Employment: 96,660
– Metros with highest average pay:
— New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA ($97,840)
— Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA ($97,720)
— San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA ($83,050)

#31. Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters

Shreveport-Bossier City, LA
– Annual mean salary: $53,170
– #278 highest pay among all metros
– Employment: 550

National
– Annual mean salary: $63,350
– Employment: 417,620
– Metros with highest average pay:
— San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA ($94,580)
— San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA ($89,500)
— Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI ($89,190)

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#30. Postal service mail carriers

Shreveport-Bossier City, LA
– Annual mean salary: $53,530
– #280 highest pay among all metros
– Employment: 460

National
– Annual mean salary: $54,370
– Employment: 335,540
– Metros with highest average pay:
— Modesto, CA ($57,160)
— Bismarck, ND ($57,090)
— San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA ($56,820)

#29. Property, real estate, and community association managers

Shreveport-Bossier City, LA
– Annual mean salary: $53,630
– #321 highest pay among all metros
– Employment: 360

National
– Annual mean salary: $70,030
– Employment: 234,680
– Metros with highest average pay:
— Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA ($109,540)
— Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO ($106,420)
— New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA ($103,610)

#28. Postal service clerks

Shreveport-Bossier City, LA
– Annual mean salary: $54,210
– #119 highest pay among all metros
– Employment: 110

National
– Annual mean salary: $53,210
– Employment: 79,320
– Metros with highest average pay:
— Houma-Thibodaux, LA ($59,410)
— Florence, SC ($59,360)
— Monroe, MI ($59,320)

#27. Construction and building inspectors

Shreveport-Bossier City, LA
– Annual mean salary: $54,230
– #318 highest pay among all metros
– Employment: 40

National
– Annual mean salary: $68,480
– Employment: 117,830
– Metros with highest average pay:
— New Haven, CT ($121,510)
— San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA ($107,330)
— San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA ($106,190)

#26. Sales representatives of services, except advertising, insurance, financial services, and travel

Shreveport-Bossier City, LA
– Annual mean salary: $54,550
– #429 highest pay among all metros
– Employment: 430

National
– Annual mean salary: $71,110
– Employment: 1,026,390
– Metros with highest average pay:
— San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA ($103,810)
— Boulder, CO ($101,630)
— San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA ($97,360)

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#25. First-line supervisors of correctional officers

Shreveport-Bossier City, LA
– Annual mean salary: $54,920
– #163 highest pay among all metros
– Employment: 40

National
– Annual mean salary: $69,750
– Employment: 54,470
– Metros with highest average pay:
— New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA ($114,400)
— San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA ($113,220)
— Sacramento–Roseville–Arden-Arcade, CA ($112,950)

#24. Insurance sales agents

Shreveport-Bossier City, LA
– Annual mean salary: $55,360
– #339 highest pay among all metros
– Employment: 450

National
– Annual mean salary: $69,340
– Employment: 422,600
– Metros with highest average pay:
— San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA ($104,230)
— San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA ($103,470)
— Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA ($95,620)

#23. Millwrights

Shreveport-Bossier City, LA
– Annual mean salary: $56,900
– #106 highest pay among all metros
– Employment: 50

National
– Annual mean salary: $61,260
– Employment: 39,240
– Metros with highest average pay:
— Kennewick-Richland, WA ($91,590)
— San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA ($90,580)
— Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI ($80,780)

#22. Control and valve installers and repairers, except mechanical door

Shreveport-Bossier City, LA
– Annual mean salary: $57,160
– #174 highest pay among all metros
– Employment: 110

National
– Annual mean salary: $67,310
– Employment: 44,870
– Metros with highest average pay:
— Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA ($98,380)
— Salt Lake City, UT ($94,070)
— Santa Rosa, CA ($92,800)

#21. Chemical plant and system operators

Shreveport-Bossier City, LA
– Annual mean salary: $57,270
– #28 highest pay among all metros
– Employment: 140

National
– Annual mean salary: $69,020
– Employment: 21,740
– Metros with highest average pay:
— Lima, OH ($92,450)
— San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA ($91,210)
— New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA ($90,170)

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#20. Telecommunications equipment installers and repairers, except line installers

Shreveport-Bossier City, LA
– Annual mean salary: $58,140
– #223 highest pay among all metros
– Employment: 260

National
– Annual mean salary: $60,350
– Employment: 172,830
– Metros with highest average pay:
— Anchorage, AK ($88,140)
— Fairbanks, AK ($84,690)
— Boston-Cambridge-Nashua, MA-NH ($80,570)

#19. Industrial machinery mechanics

Shreveport-Bossier City, LA
– Annual mean salary: $58,850
– #177 highest pay among all metros
– Employment: 490

National
– Annual mean salary: $58,780
– Employment: 373,090
– Metros with highest average pay:
— Fairbanks, AK ($85,900)
— Lake Charles, LA ($85,360)
— Anchorage, AK ($82,890)

#18. Chemical equipment operators and tenders

Shreveport-Bossier City, LA
– Annual mean salary: $60,840
– #23 highest pay among all metros
– Employment: 160

National
– Annual mean salary: $52,450
– Employment: 106,170
– Metros with highest average pay:
— Billings, MT ($88,420)
— Baton Rouge, LA ($76,050)
— Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX ($71,340)

#17. Food service managers

Shreveport-Bossier City, LA
– Annual mean salary: $61,950
– #162 highest pay among all metros
– Employment: 100

National
– Annual mean salary: $63,970
– Employment: 210,680
– Metros with highest average pay:
— Trenton, NJ ($91,320)
— Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA ($89,860)
— Kahului-Wailuku-Lahaina, HI ($87,750)

#16. Electrical and electronics repairers, commercial and industrial equipment

Shreveport-Bossier City, LA
– Annual mean salary: $62,760
– #121 highest pay among all metros
– Employment: 80

National
– Annual mean salary: $64,230
– Employment: 50,780
– Metros with highest average pay:
— Vallejo-Fairfield, CA ($87,890)
— Fresno, CA ($86,230)
— Fairbanks, AK ($85,640)

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#15. First-line supervisors of police and detectives

Shreveport-Bossier City, LA
– Annual mean salary: $63,570
– #405 highest pay among all metros
– Employment: 360

National
– Annual mean salary: $98,760
– Employment: 128,230
– Metros with highest average pay:
— San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA ($182,700)
— San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA ($170,740)
— Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA ($164,600)

#14. Aircraft mechanics and service technicians

Shreveport-Bossier City, LA
– Annual mean salary: $65,250
– #107 highest pay among all metros
– Employment: 190

National
– Annual mean salary: $69,470
– Employment: 125,440
– Metros with highest average pay:
— San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA ($86,470)
— Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD ($86,370)
— San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA ($85,860)

#13. Lodging managers

Shreveport-Bossier City, LA
– Annual mean salary: $66,310
– #79 highest pay among all metros
– Employment: 50

National
– Annual mean salary: $67,770
– Employment: 35,920
– Metros with highest average pay:
— Kahului-Wailuku-Lahaina, HI ($121,090)
— Urban Honolulu, HI ($111,410)
— New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA ($99,600)

#12. First-line supervisors of construction trades and extraction workers

Shreveport-Bossier City, LA
– Annual mean salary: $67,230
– #282 highest pay among all metros
– Employment: 700

National
– Annual mean salary: $75,060
– Employment: 665,870
– Metros with highest average pay:
— San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA ($112,020)
— San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA ($103,820)
— Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA ($101,210)

#11. Detectives and criminal investigators

Shreveport-Bossier City, LA
– Annual mean salary: $68,270
– #251 highest pay among all metros
– Employment: 90

National
– Annual mean salary: $90,370
– Employment: 107,890
– Metros with highest average pay:
— San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA ($132,210)
— Anchorage, AK ($127,070)
— Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV ($123,460)

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#10. First-line supervisors of mechanics, installers, and repairers

Shreveport-Bossier City, LA
– Annual mean salary: $68,360
– #300 highest pay among all metros
– Employment: 860

National
– Annual mean salary: $73,590
– Employment: 526,240
– Metros with highest average pay:
— Bremerton-Silverdale, WA ($93,830)
— San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA ($93,030)
— San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA ($92,870)

#9. First-line supervisors of firefighting and prevention workers

Shreveport-Bossier City, LA
– Annual mean salary: $68,530
– #212 highest pay among all metros
– Employment: 300

National
– Annual mean salary: $83,270
– Employment: 80,890
– Metros with highest average pay:
— San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA ($171,060)
— Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA ($145,740)
— San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA ($135,860)

#8. First-line supervisors of production and operating workers

Shreveport-Bossier City, LA
– Annual mean salary: $69,700
– #111 highest pay among all metros
– Employment: 700

National
– Annual mean salary: $67,330
– Employment: 629,420
– Metros with highest average pay:
— Baton Rouge, LA ($98,170)
— Lake Charles, LA ($97,910)
— Norwich-New London-Westerly, CT-RI ($90,410)

#7. Claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators

Shreveport-Bossier City, LA
– Annual mean salary: $71,180
– #143 highest pay among all metros
– Employment: 110

National
– Annual mean salary: $70,960
– Employment: 278,140
– Metros with highest average pay:
— Kennewick-Richland, WA ($104,350)
— Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk, CT ($95,200)
— Salinas, CA ($90,800)

#6. Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products

Shreveport-Bossier City, LA
– Annual mean salary: $71,440
– #132 highest pay among all metros
– Employment: 1,890

National
– Annual mean salary: $72,390
– Employment: 1,242,490
– Metros with highest average pay:
— San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA ($102,280)
— Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk, CT ($92,660)
— Napa, CA ($92,620)

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#5. Petroleum pump system operators, refinery operators, and gaugers

Shreveport-Bossier City, LA
– Annual mean salary: $75,210
– #46 highest pay among all metros
– Employment: 280

National
– Annual mean salary: $80,500
– Employment: 34,230
– Metros with highest average pay:
— San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA ($105,090)
— St. Louis, MO-IL ($97,860)
— Vallejo-Fairfield, CA ($96,520)

#4. Electrical power-line installers and repairers

Shreveport-Bossier City, LA
– Annual mean salary: $77,230
– #199 highest pay among all metros
– Employment: 130

National
– Annual mean salary: $79,060
– Employment: 123,940
– Metros with highest average pay:
— Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA ($117,700)
— Salinas, CA ($110,180)
— San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA ($109,490)

#3. Transportation, storage, and distribution managers

Shreveport-Bossier City, LA
– Annual mean salary: $80,790
– #386 highest pay among all metros
– Employment: 70

National
– Annual mean salary: $105,580
– Employment: 144,640
– Metros with highest average pay:
— San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA ($159,890)
— Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk, CT ($154,170)
— Trenton, NJ ($144,620)

#2. First-line supervisors of non-retail sales workers

Shreveport-Bossier City, LA
– Annual mean salary: $81,240
– #207 highest pay among all metros
– Employment: 160

National
– Annual mean salary: $92,320
– Employment: 243,920
– Metros with highest average pay:
— Portland-South Portland, ME ($129,860)
— Durham-Chapel Hill, NC ($121,360)
— New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA ($121,250)

#1. Commercial pilots

Shreveport-Bossier City, LA
– Annual mean salary: $86,160
– #156 highest pay among all metros
– Employment: 80

National
– Annual mean salary: $115,080
– Employment: 42,770
– Metros with highest average pay:
— San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA ($185,920)
— Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA ($184,260)
— Savannah, GA ($177,450)

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A few months ago, I came across a curious listing for a restaurant experience where you pay to spend a day in the life of a chef.

The chef is David Yoshimura of Nisei, the fine dining Japanese restaurant in Russian Hill. I’ll admit, at first I thought the idea was pretty hilarious, charging customers $775, or $1,012 with tax and gratuity, for what seemed like a chef influencer event, glamorizing and overcharging for a peek at how the restaurant sausage is made. The experience, available to just one customer each Saturday, consists of going to the farmers’ market, then going back to the kitchen to prep and cook, and ends with an 11-course dinner.

Essentially, you’re paying more than $1,000 to work a shift at a restaurant. Is this how rich people like to spend their money? I couldn’t believe it.

Maybe I shouldn’t have been shocked. In recent years, we’ve seen luxury dining experiences proliferate in San Francisco and the Bay Area, with “farm experiences” from restaurants like Quince and Avery as well as services like Ritual, an opulent supper club that flies in chefs from around the world for dinners that cost nearly $1,000 per person. Restaurants are tapping into their wealthiest clients with tiered experiences and high-end extras. Was the Nisei experience just that, some kind of savvy side hustle from an up-and-coming chef? A wild new wealth tax perhaps?

To my surprise, my editors thought it would be a good story if I reviewed the experience and tried to find out. I agree. Delighted by the oddness of it all, I booked it, excited to peek behind the curtain, to see how the complicated machinery of a restaurant works — and determine whether paying for the privilege of making my own dinner could possibly be worth the price tag.

But then it got complicated.

As I do at any other restaurant, I booked the reservation under an alias. Everything was set for my anonymous visit. I had my trusty Groucho Marx glasses ready, then I got an email from the restaurant.

They asked me to sign a non-disclosure agreement.

The ruse was over, my plans for writing about the experience were compromised. A review would be a clear violation of any nondisclosure agreement, and besides, I wasn’t about to sign a fake name on a legal contract. I felt like I was in “Scooby Doo” and my mask was yanked off by those meddling kids.

Top: Chef David Yoshimura leads the kitchen at Nisei. Above: The San Francisco restaurant was bustling on a recent evening.

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I was prepared to abandon the story altogether. But after some deliberation, I outed myself as a critic and came to an agreement with the restaurant: I’d pay to live a day in the life of a chef and be allowed to write about it, as long as I didn’t divulge any recipes, secret techniques or other sensitive information.

But now, the story I had in mind had changed, because everyone would know my identity. It was like the chef and I were locked in a game of four-dimensional chess: not only would I spend a day in his shoes, but he would, essentially, spend a day in mine. The whole thing made my head spin.

On a rainy morning in December, I met Yoshimura at the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market. Earlier that week (long after I’d booked my visit), his restaurant, which opened in 2021, had been awarded a Michelin star and he’d received the restaurant guide’s Young Chef Award. When vendors, chefs and other restaurant folks congratulated him, he smiled graciously and said thank you. I got the sense that the praise made him a little uncomfortable.

We talked about his bringing up in Houston, where he started cooking at a steakhouse before working in New York kitchens and then eventually the Bay Area. He cut his teeth here at fine dining Mexican restaurant Californios — he was the chef de cuisine there when that restaurant was awarded Michelin stars. “It feels more personal when it’s my food,” he said, about winning a star of his own.

We proceeded to buy turnips, persimmons and decorative pine branches. Then we packed up his car and headed to the restaurant. He gathered the staff of 10 or so for a meeting; some were wearing beanies, others bandanas. Yoshimura said there’d be a packed house that night — the Michelin buzz had already translated to more reservations.

Grilled unagi and fried unagi bone at Nisei in San Francisco, Calif., Thursday, Dec. 29, 2022.
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The suppon at Nisei in San Francisco, Calif., Thursday, Dec. 29, 2022.
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Grilled unagi over rice (left) was the best dish during a recent meal at Nisei, while suppon (right), a turtle soup, was the only miss. Santiago Mejia / The Chronicle

The staff all greeted me warmly, but I really didn’t know what to expect. I like they were observing me, too.

I wondered: How much of this experience would be real? It didn’t feel unlike the theatrics of hospitality, where everything is calculated to give customers the best possible experience. This so-called day-in-the-life felt like an extension of that service, the idea of ​​an open kitchen taken to its logical extreme.

No longer shielded by anonymity, I also felt more exposed than I ever had as a critic. I was keenly aware of that remove between chef and restaurant critic, an inherent binary often caricatured as adversarial. Did these chiefs think of me as a wolf in sheep’s clothing?

That all melted away once I stepped in the kitchen. Yoshimura gave me a choice: follow him around while he did administrative tasks and planning, which he described as “boring,” or bounce around for a more complete picture. I chose the latter — I, after all, was performing too. I felt like I had to show them I was down to get my hands dirty, even as I worried they might make fun of my poor knife skills. (Yoshimura told me one past guest was appalled she had to work.)

From noon until 5 pm, the beginning of service, the kitchen focused on prep. I started with weighing flour and sugar for blinis, flambéing bananas on a stovetop and chopping pickles. Then I assisted with descaling anchovies with a knife. At the pastry station, I molded nerikiri (a semi-sweet white bean dessert) with my fingers and pressed them with a wood block to make them look like a sakura flower. I sliced ​​miso-marinated garlic, doing my best impression of Paulie from “Goodfellas.” I squeezed out dots of sauces, gingerly added leaf garnishes and portioned pickles on ceramic plates — ensuring each received the same amounts.

While we worked, I got to know the staff: where they’re from, what kind of music they like, their histories. It’s hard not to be endedared to a cast of characters when you share laughs and conversation, the same way you build rapport with any work family. We even shared a family meal: Yoshimura and sous chef Nicholas Razatos made excellent fried chicken.

The Dungeness crab course is served inside a crab shell at Nisei in San Francisco.

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By then, my concern about gauging the authenticity of my experience had evaporated. I came away with the belief that enough of it was real — or at least felt real. It’s the same way a theater production requires real people to put on a show. I suspended my disbelief and became a part of the Nisei show. That was especially true once service started. It was as if a switch had flipped. It was go time.

I tried my best to stay out of everyone’s way. The change in the room was palpable, the staff acutely focused on the task at hand. Watching the kitchen spring into action, living and breathing in unison, gave me clarity about fine dining restaurants that I simply did not have before. The team communicated briskly, their focus sharpened. The imperative of providing exceptional hospitality was much clearer.

At 6:30 p.m. sharp, general manager Ian Cobb, a staunchly serious man, informed me that my seat at Bar Iris, the sister bar to the restaurant, was ready. I went upstairs, shed my kitchen costume and got ready for dinner.

After tasting a few cocktails at the bar, it was showtime: I got a prime seat right in front of the kitchen window.

The first four bites arrived in a flash. I quickly spotted a dish with the anchovies I had aided in descaling: a crisp burst of aquatic umami inside dehydrated nori. It was followed by tangy, nukazuke-fermented persimmons. Shortly thereafter, chef Yoshimura, armed with a pointed smile, dropped off a blini with creamy, flambéed banana puree and a tiny quenelle of caviar. The morsel of sweetness and saltiness effortlessly lilted across my tastebuds — one of the most memorable bites of the night.

Dishes that followed included a toasted milk bread spread with gamey, creamy milkfish pate; the pucker of a garnish of cranberries scaled back the richness. A stew-like Dungeness crab dish thickened with stock admirably preserved the lightness of the crustacean. Crispy, juicy squab katsu rested in an oil spill of black curry. The only real disappointment: a turtle soup with distractingly tough meat and muscular mochi.

Throughout the meal, the staff would check on me. Some nodded knowingly, as if we shared a secret.

All other dishes folded to the might of the main event: the unagi over rice. The portion is smaller than a traditional donburi but just as sharp, smoky and flavorful. The fillet had been slowly charcoal-grilled, rendering the fat out of the skin until it was airy and crisp. It came with a piece of edible, dehydrated and fried unagi spine, spicy grated daikon, and sliced ​​miso-garlic — some of the ingredients I’d had a hand in preparing.

Nisei is located on Polk Street, with Bar Nisei drawing in customers for cocktails next door.

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The eel embodied the principles of Washoku cooking, a philosophy translating to “harmony of food” that balances technique, tradition, taste and respect of food, but also expressed the nisei (second-generation Japanese) attitude of the restaurant. The melty eel is obviously grander than what you’d find at a typical Japanese restaurant, but preserves the satisfying, comforting barbecue spirit.

The unagi alone might have earned Nisei the Michelin star. I don’t really subscribe to the star dogma, but if my time at the restaurant was an indicator, it surely deserves happy face stickers, checkmarks and any other made-up signifiers of quality.

Is it possible the unagi tasted even better because I’d just seen the kind of work that goes into it?

I’ll never know for sure. Even though $1,000 is nothing to sneeze at, I concluded that the price was absolutely worth it.

Included are skills and techniques that are yours to keep; a few drinks from the bar; trying elements at every point before they make it on the plate; a family meal; and tracing ingredients from the vendor to the diner — a full-spectrum view of a fine dining restaurant.

Driving home, tired from a 12-hour shift, I came away with a new perspective and satisfaction that’s rare even in the most pampering restaurant environments. The process forces wealthy people to appreciate the process of creating luxury; a once-in-a-lifetime dissection of the high-caliber kitchen organism. If we think of fine dining restaurants as producers of edible art, this immersive experience lets diners not only eat it, but make it, too.

nisei 5-9 pm Wednesday-Sunday. 2316 Polk St., San Francisco. 415-827-6898 or restaurantnisei.com

Cesar Hernandez is The San Francisco Chronicle’s associate restaurant critic. Email: cesar.hernandez@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @cesarishafa

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Twitter’s landlord is suing the social media giant for failing to pay rent at its downtown San Francisco office, according to reports.

The company owes around $136,260 in unpaid rent, according to its landlord, Columbia Property Trust, which filed the lawsuit last Thursday.

Low-angle view of sign with logo on the facade of the headquarters of social network Twitter in the South of Market (SoMa) neighborhood of San Francisco, California, October 13, 2017. SoMa is known for having one of the highest concentrations of technology companies and startups of any region worldwide.

Twitter’s failure to pay rent was first reported last month, about a month and a half after Elon Musk acquired the company for $44 billion, following a chaotic legal battle.

Two people familiar with told matter The New York Times that Musk has been trying to renegotiate the terms of the lease agreement amid mass layoffs and downsizing.

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The downsizing continued on Friday, with Twitter closing its Seattle offices, cutting janitorial and security services, according to The Times.

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Meanwhile, cleaning and security staff were laid off from the company’s New York and San Francisco offices. At the latter, Musk has reduced the company’s office space from four floors to two, according to The Times.

FOX Business has reached out to Twitter for comment. A spokesperson for Columbia Property Trust declined to comment.

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The case is Columbia Reit – 650 California LLC v. Twitter Inc., CGC-22-603719, Superior Court, State of California in San Francisco.

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That ominous Kentucky-shaped water stain on your ceiling. The single tile that came untethered from your kitchen backsplash. A backdoor hinge with a maddening squeak. There are likely several things around your place that need to be repaired, but often you lack the skills, the tools, or the time to keep your home from falling apart.

Enter the handyman service. Hire one and you can turn over your home’s to-do list to an expert. The best services have workers who can fix just about anything, have the tools for an infinite number of tasks, and provide prompt, courteous service.

But nonprofit Delaware Valley Consumers’ Checkbook receives a lot of complaints about handyman services, most of them related to shoddy or incompetent work. A lot of consumers also believe that they paid too much for the work.

Looking for help? Through special arrangement with The Inquirer, you can access Checkbook’s ratings of local handyman services for high-quality and price free of charge until March 10 at Checkbook.org/Inquirer/Handyman.

When you contact a handyman service, the more details you provide the better. Some companies won’t perform some tasks, such as painting, while others avoid such specialized work as electrical, plumbing, or masonry. Some services accept only small projects; others work only on multiday remodeling jobs.

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Keep in mind that workers often have strong backgrounds in some areas — say, carpentry — and know enough to do small jobs related to other trades. If your list consists primarily of projects related to one type of work, ask prospective companies whether they have workers with expertise in that area. Other than for simple jobs, there’s little reason to hire a handyman service to perform specialized work. If you need plumbing work, hire a plumber — or an electrician for electrical work.

In addition to checking Checkbook’s ratings, ask friends, neighbors, and colleagues for recommendations. Also ask companies for references. And be sure the per you choose is insured. Anyone you hire to work in or around your home should carry two types of insurance: general liability and workers’ compensation.

A fixed price is preferable for handyman work. Knowing in advance exactly what you’ll pay eliminates the possibility of future disputes — and is a key to letting you shop around to make sure you pay a fair price. If you can’t get fixed-price quotes, at least nail down hourly rates and minimum charges.

Checkbook’s undercover shoppers collected labor charges for several increments of work (per worker) for a sample of area handyman services and found big differences: for one hour of work, you can pay between $35 and $300; for six hours between $210 and $720. The problem with working with a company that charges on a time-and-materials basis, of course, is that some workers get jobs done much faster than others.

If you agree to pay on a time-and-materials basis, review your tasks with your workers as soon as they arrive, and ask them to commit to a final price. Determine in advance who is responsible for providing materials; many handyman services charge for the time workers take to go out and shop for needed items, so if you have the time, you could save some money by shopping yourself.

Don’t assume that paying a higher price buys better work; it doesn’t. When it comes to home repairs, you don’t have to pay more to get more: Checkbook regularly finds that low-priced companies are just as likely to do good work as high-priced ones.

Once you’ve chosen a handyman for your projects, get all the details of the job in writing. A detailed written agreement benefits both parties: The company gets to know the limits of the project, and you get to know what to expect.

Avoid companies that require large deposits or payment in advance. If your job requires a lot of materials, and the company is responsible for buying them, it’s reasonable to put up a deposit against these expenses. Otherwise, arrange to pay for all work only when the job is done. This arrangement gives you leverage to make sure the work is done properly, and it’s another reason why a fixed-price arrangement works in your favor: A set fee means a company can’t charge for additional hours if it must take extra time to correct errors.

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Delaware Valley Consumers’ Checkbook magazine and Checkbook.org is a nonprofit organization with a mission to help consumers get the best service and lowest prices. It is supported by consumers and takes no money from the service providers it evaluates.

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cruise and Waymo are in a race to see who can win the market for autonomous driving – and have recruited lobbyists here in San Francisco to iron out the high-tech rules of the street. Waymo is Google’s own startup with a valuation of $ 31 billion. (Yeah, I just spat coffee on my screen too). Waymo lobbyists have reported or expected to pay $ 96,000 to San Francisco City Hall this year, city records show. GM-owned Cruise, also valued at over $ 30 billion, is headquartered at the South Beach baseball stadium. Cruise lobbyists have reported or expected to pay SF City Hall $ 136,000 this year.

If that seems like a lot Foreclosure just said, “Hold my beer.” The namesake of the tallest office building west of Chicago cannot be beat. Salesforce lobbyists have reported a staggering $ 1.1 million (coffee, screen) to SF City Hall in fees received or expected over the past 10 years. (If you wonder about the clumsy phrase “received or expected”, sometimes the bill is not paid when reports are due.) …

When a database company has its name in the practice hall, you might as well follow your strokes in practice, and the warrior do this with fancy new technology from, you guessed it, oracle. The Warriors Player Dashboard, powered by Oracle, aggregates and compares game and practice metrics of player shots with the league average. The Oracle Performance Center is the 25,000 square foot section of the Chase Center where the Warriors train and hang out. If you’re wondering what you’re doing with exercise metrics, you can look at where gunshots come and go and say, “Hey Steph, scooch over 5 feet and those threesomes get even cuter. ”It’s hard to do better than curry did it against the Clippers a few weeks ago when he went eight for 13 from downtown on the way to 45 points …

If you’re curious about what’s next Relaxed (I am, but I am a nerd), you will find out this next Thursday at an ask-me-anything online event Nolan Caudill, Senior Director for the in-house tools team in the team messaging application. Go to slackcommunity.com. Here are two things you might not know: 1. Slack is an acronym for Searchable Log of All Conversation and Knowledge. 2. In the Salesforce Tower you could look across the park to Slack HQ, where friendly messages used to be posted in the windows (before Foreclosure acquired)…

A contemplative musical “MindTravel” event is planned for November 14th at 7:00 am in Land’s End. (Kevin N. Hume / The Examiner)

This is trippy: you can “MindTravel” by strolling through Land’s End, the park on the northwest corner of The City overlooking the coast and the Golden Gate, while a lot of people listen to “evocative, improvisational” piano music on headphones . The composer of music, Murray HidaryShe swears a “contemplative and powerful creative journey”. It happens on Thursday, November 14th at 7am. Bet you would be Zen at work all day? Go to mindtravel.com/upcoming-schedule…

I still don’t fully understand NFTs. Non-fungible tokens sound like a dessert that you can’t eat to me, and it is. You buy unique things that are only available online. But if that doesn’t seem real, it brings in real money from a well-funded VC. Andreessen Horowitz, the investor in Menlo Park in Facebook (Forgiveness, Meta), Airbnb, Elevator, Pinterest and many more, has participated in more than a third of all largest NFT finance deals, according to PitchBook data …

Finally, if you want to surprise your spouse, you can put a colored light in the toilet a night before bed. the Glow bowl adds some color to your life where you never expected it, and has a dimmer and “carousel mode” that alternates between colors. Go to Glowbowl.com. Don’t blame me, people send me these things …

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California is the highest-paid state for plumbers, HVAC technicians, and electricians

There is currently a shortage of skilled workers in the USA. Across the country, there are not enough skilled electricians, plumbers, HVAC technicians, and carpenters to meet the demand. A recent study found that many of the most sought-after jobs remain vacant for at least a month. This is because millions of Americans laid off in the early days of the coronavirus are looking for work.

However, not all job boards are created equal. While all 50 states should be fairly easy to find, the pay for that work varies by state. To find the states where homeworkers are paid the most, ServiceTitan analyzed Payscale’s June 2020 data. The average homeworker’s salary was calculated by taking the average of the salaries of entry-level, middle-level, and senior workers in each state. HVAC technicians, plumbers, and electricians were all included in the record, which can be viewed nationwide here.

California in numbers

– Average Annual Salary: $ 59,511 ($ 28.61 per hour)
– Plumber: $ 58,400 ($ 28.08 hourly)
– Entry-level to senior plumber salary increase: $ 15,100 ($ 7.26 per hour)
– HVAC Technician: $ 59,433 ($ 28.57 per hour)
– Entry-level to senior HVAC technician salary increase: $ 17,800 ($ 8.56 per hour)
– Electrician: $ 60,700 ($ 29.18 hourly)
– Entry-level to senior electrician salary increase: $ 17,900 ($ 8.61 per hour)

There is a gap between knowing that an industry needs workers and actually integrating workers into the industry. California is investing $ 200 million in improving vocational education – education that can add tens of thousands of dollars to the salary of the average commercial worker. However, the sheer size of California means that not all metropolitan areas are created equally for homeworkers. The The San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward metropolitan area is the highest paid in the country for both electricians and plumbers and the fourth highest for HVAC technicians.

The San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara and Merced areas, meanwhile, are also in the nation’s top 10 metros for electricians, while San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara ranks high for plumbers and HVAC technicians in Napa, Santa., Cruz-Watsonville, San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, and Santa Maria-Santa Barbara subways do well. Also, the state’s total employment for plumbers is expects growth of 12.4% until 2028. But not all is rosy: The premium for the homeworker’s salary is partly explained by the fact that California has the third highest cost of living in the country.

Take a look at the stats below to find out where your talents are most and least valued, and to better assess whether or not it is worth making a career move.

States that pay homeworkers the most

#1. Alaska: $ 61,156 average annual salary ($ 29.40 hourly)
# 2. Massachusetts: $ 59,700 average annual salary ($ 28.70 an hour)
# 3. California: $ 59,511 average annual salary ($ 28.61 hourly)

States that pay homeworkers the least

#1. Arkansas: $ 47,944 average annual salary ($ 23.05 hourly)
# 2. West Virginia: $ 48,178 average annual salary ($ 23.16 hourly)
# 3. Idaho: $ 49,433 average annual salary ($ 23.77 hourly)

This story originally appeared on ServiceTitan and was produced and distributed in collaboration with Stacker Studio.

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BOSTON (CBS / AP) – A woman from the Peninsula who is also the chief executive officer of a California liquor distribution company pleaded guilty less than a month ahead of the scheduled trial, according to court records Tuesday.

Marci Palatella will be the 33rd parent to admit prosecution in the case that uncovered a system where wealthy parents paid large amounts of money to put their children in top schools across the country.

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Her plea deal with prosecutors requires her to sit behind bars for six weeks and pay a fine of $ 250,000. She also agreed to do 500 hours of community service and two years of supervised release, with the first six months in domestic custody, under the plea deal that must be accepted by a judge.

Palatella and two other parents were due to stand before the jury next month in the first trial since the so-called “Operation Varsity Blues” in March 2019.

The Hillsborough woman will admit she paid $ 500,000 to bring her son to the University of Southern California as a football recruit even though he wouldn’t actually play on the team, prosecutors said.

Marci Palatella, founder of the Preservation Distillery, Center, arrives in federal court in Boston, Massachusetts, USA on Friday, March 29, 2019. (Scott Eisen / Bloomberg via Getty Images)

On Tuesday, emails were sent to her lawyers asking for comments.

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She will plead guilty to conspiracy charges to commit honest postal fraud. Prosecutors have agreed to dismiss the other charge she faced – conspiracy to commit federal bribery – in exchange for her admission of guilt.

Palatella was among 50 parents, sports coaches and others charged in 2019 in the case that implicated elite universities across the country.

Only a handful of parents are still fighting the allegations. More than 30 other parents have pleaded guilty, including TV actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin, and Loughlin’s fashion designer husband Mossimo Giannulli.

The two parents on trial next month – Gamal Abdelaziz and John Wilson – are also charged with paying bribes to bring their children to the University of Southern California as bogus athletic recruits.

The selection of the jury is to begin on September 8th.

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SEATTLE – Americans who moved out of town last year typically paid less for bigger homes, according to a new Zillow analysis of move data from North American Van Lines.

This is a sharp break with the trend of recent years. The impressive strength of the housing market in 2020, coupled with a newfound motivation to move, has helped sellers capitalize on rapidly rising property values ​​to find places that better suit their needs – namely, bigger homes in less expensive areas.

Moving companies went to zip codes where homes sold are on average 33 square feet larger than where they came from – about the size of a walk-in closet or extra bathroom. This was a significant leap from the 9- to 21-square-foot step-up movers that have been made in recent years.

“The ability to sell in a relatively expensive market and move to a cheaper location – either to save money or to make more money on a larger property – has been extremely attractive to moving companies,” said Jeff Tucker, senior economist at Zillow.

Long distance moves to the Boston subway moved in zip codes averaging $ 190,243 higher home values ​​than where they had moved, and the homes that were sold to the suburban area were 60 square feet smaller than the moving company’s original zip codes. Those who moved out of Boston went to ZIPs, where the average home value was $ 170,429 lower than it was when it started, and properties were 131 square feet larger.

Zillow’s most recent Mover report found that the best subways for net immigration, with more people entering than leaving, are sunny and relatively affordable. Phoenix, Charlotte and Austin led the United States in terms of net immigration.

Overall, the results are proof that the Great Makeover is at work. Until March 2020, employees were largely locked to locations within a tolerable commute from their workplace. When the pandemic broke out, many started working remotely – spending a lot more time at home thinking about where and how to live. A larger home with an office or high-end kitchen, or a home with lower monthly payments in sunny Arizona became extremely tempting.

Meanwhile, interest rates continued to fall, fueling the scorching property market and boosting purchasing power for buyers. Home appreciation in 2020 was driven by massive demand and limited supply, increasing the value of typical homes by 8.4% ($ 20,716) over the course of 2020, compared to a 3.7% growth (8,791 USD in 2019).

Tucker said the trend could contribute to home price convergence as people migrate from the most expensive cities to more affordable cities, which will tend to cause prices to rise in their destinations. It can also redistribute some of the consumer spending, tax revenues and employment growth that have become increasingly concentrated in “superstar cities” over the past few decades. Housing values ​​are rising fastest in places like Austin and Phoenix and slowest in San Francisco, which led the United States in 2016.

Nationwide, the average home value in zip codes that people moved from was about $ 419,000, compared to an average home value in destination postal codes of about $ 392,000. This means the average mover slid down the price ladder by about $ 27,000. When the moving companies moved in 2019, the average home values ​​in their destinations were only about $ 3,400 lower than when they started out.

The trend in 2020 of moving to more affordable locations than in previous years has been seen in almost all types of moves in urban, suburban and rural areas. People leaving urban zip codes moved to areas that were $ 66,000 cheaper in 2020, down from an average of about $ 26,000 less over the past four years. Those leaving suburban ZIPs moved down about $ 23,000 on the price ladder, compared to an average decline of just over $ 500 over the past four years.

Even those leaving rural areas for urban or suburban areas where prices are higher have only gone up about $ 31,000 this year, up from about $ 41,000 in recent years.

“We have been feeling the effects of this charged market since the second half of 2020. These migration patterns challenge the moving industry to put capacity in the right places. As you would expect, we end up with a lot of trucks in the low cost areas people are moving to and fewer trucks in the high cost areas where demand is high, ”said Kevin Murphy, vice president and general manager of North American Van Lines manager .

Immigration to less urban areas has accelerated slightly in 2020 compared to 2019, while moves to denser areas have declined – which is not to say that early pandemic fears of urban evacuation have been confirmed. The number of households that moved out of urban areas did not increase significantly in 2020. Additionally, Zillow’s Urban-Suburban Report found that despite some narratives from the early pandemic era, suburban housing markets did not grow disproportionately at the expense of urban areas in 2020.

The largest decrease in the proportion of moves between area classes was from suburbs to cities, which decreased 1.5% year over year. The strongest increase was recorded for moves to the suburbs in the country, with an increase of 1.2% compared to the previous year.

San Jose saw the most extreme changes in average home value for both those moving to and from zip codes within the subway, followed by San Francisco and Los Angeles. Those who moved out of San Jose went to a zip code with an average home value of nearly $ 1.2 million, while those who moved saw about $ 1.4 million more homes than where they came from.

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From two blocks away, REEF Technology’s “ghost kitchens” appear through a maze of palm trees like a technicolor aluminum herd, sleepily huddled in a parking lot next to a Metromover overpass at the apex of two of Coconut Grove’s busier streets.

Yet, as you get closer, a buzzing hive of tourists, foodies, picnic tables, bougainvillea planters, and UberEats and GrubHub scooters coming and going somehow miraculously have brought this formerly vacant asphalt polygon back to life.

REEF, whose headquarters is a few miles away in downtown Brickell, calls what I’m standing in the middle of “proximity as a platform”. And if Miami’s current political class has anything to do with it, the start-up’s pandemically turbo-charged, on-demand logistics model could set a new national template for smart, sustainable cities and the future of everything from restaurants to retail to healthcare delivery forever.

It could also keep tipping America’s innovation power balance geographically from Silicon Valley to South Florida for years to come.

One of REEF Technology’s 200 ‘ghost kitchens’ around the country providing on demand food prep, … [+] cooking, and remote delivery services for aspiring and celebrity chefs

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Late last month, Miami’s now-celebrity Mayor Francis Suarez and its five City Commissioners officially passed a one-year pilot ordinance that formally acknowledges and legally zones what are technically called “mobile operation units”, or MOUs for short—which in addition to REEF’s current ghost kitchens has the potential to ignite an infinity of other deconstructed, on-demand businesses built around revitalizing wonky slivers and triangles of underutilized urban real estate into pop-up, neighborhood hubs for curated, locally-sourced goods, services, and experiences.

According to REEF, other tech-driven, app-based businesses that Miami’s new law eventually could green light include last-block retail delivery depots, mobile medical and wellness clinics, vertical farmers markets in neighborhoods lacking fresh food, electric vehicle charging stations, and micro-mobility stations for bike and scooter shares—all of which by REEF’s calculus has the potential to unleash a hidden real estate logistics ecosystem in hundreds of neighborhoods around the country for the principal benefit of its residents.

“With policies like these, Miami is setting a global example on how to work in partnership with technology start-ups and innovators while also meeting the evolving needs of the community, creating a win-win,” says REEF’s founder and CEO Ari Ojalvo. “By working collaboratively with city leaders like Mayor Suarez and City Commissioner Ken Russell, and the support of the rest of the Commissioners, along with businesses and community groups, start-ups like ours can reimagine and rebuild our urban spaces for people, not just cars, and help our cities become more sustainable and inclusive centers of community and opportunity.”  

REEF’s neighborhood hubs also have the potential to create thousands of well-paying technology, creative, and service jobs in local communities while simultaneously helping small, independent businesses to grow more efficiently and reach wider markets with less overhead compared with the slow, precarious cliff-jump of expanding through traditional brick-and-mortar storefronts.

Perhaps most importantly, Miami’s newest piece of legislation is another loud, cracking shot across the bow of traditional innovation hubs like Palo Alto, Boston, and Austin about the city’s global ambitions to become the most technology, disruption, and venture capital friendly destination in America when it comes to legislation, zoning, tax policy, and business regulation—particularly on the backside of the pandemic which has set South Florida’s real estate and commercial office markets on fire.

“It’s incredibly important as we recover from COVID that Miami comes out swinging,” Mayor Suarez tells me, “Particularly in the case of innovation and how we as a city define ourselves because we believe that the tech economy and the knowledge-based economy are the future of the world economy. So for Miami to position itself right now after the pandemic with legislation like this, delivering local meals, supporting the start-up technology community, and expanding the capabilities of our small restaurants that are still struggling is a win-win for business and our community and shows that we can originate innovative ideas and public-private partnerships here in Miami that are scalable worldwide.”

REEF founder and CEO realized years ago that America’s parking lots were not realizing their real … [+] estate highest and best use in the communities where they were located. During COVID the start-up partnered with cities and health clinics to turn their parking lots into on-demand testing sites

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If you ask Ojalvo, Suarez’s vision of worldwide scalability wasn’t part of his company’s initial business model, however—though I suspect the 42-year old entrepreneur would be happy to take the compliment.  

REEF’s ‘proximity-as-a-platform’ business model got its start back in 2013 when the company formerly was called ParkJockey, providing hardware, software and management services to parking lot owners and management companies.

Over time, however, Ojalvo epiphanized that parking lots weren’t actually serving their highest and best use just temporarily storing cars. So he asked himself a simple question: What if all those thousands of acres of flat, strategically-located, and horrifically-underutilized real estate could be re-positioned for the benefit of local communities in cities all over America?

What if parking lots could become urban farms and pop-up restaurants and logistics hubs to help local businesses reach more customers with fewer operational friction points while returning greater, more sustainable value to their property owners?

REEF is now Florida’s only billion dollar unicorn start-up and the largest operator of mobile, … [+] neighborhood logistics hubs in America. The company recently completed the acquisition of DHL with the help of $700 million in new funding from SoftBank

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Nearly eight years later, Ojalvo’s parking lot epiphany now comprises a global ecosystem of more than 5,000 asphalt swatches, garages, and otherwise empty plots across 45 U.S. States, all seven Canadian Provinces (plus two Territories), and the UK, along with a team of 15,000 full-time employees, making the Miami-based start-up the largest operator of mobility and logistics hubs and neighborhood kitchens in America (200 at last count including 15 in Miami that are now legally zoned thanks to the city’s new ordinance).

REEF also just recently closed a $700 million round of fresh funding from a syndicate led by SoftBank and the Mubadala Corp along with investment firms Oaktree, UBS Asset Management, and the European venture capital firm Target with the intent to scale to 10,000 new locations across North America and transform the company’s real estate holdings into the world’s largest sustainable network of “neighborhood hubs” over the next three years.

From a start-up standpoint, if REEF’s vision sounds grandiose, it is. Transforming the habits by which products and services are fulfilled for consumers doesn’t happen overnight (ask Jeff Bezos). From a practical standpoint, however, the company’s fundamental business model sits on solidly simple footing despite its nine-figure valuation and global intentions—all of which have been accelerated by the on-demand, stay-at-home delivery economy spawned by the pandemic.

REEF leases the parking lots and real estate it operates, upgrades it with basic infrastructure (i.e., ADA compliant ramps and essential utilities), and either leases it out to other occupants or operates the pop-up businesses themselves, including designing, outfitting, and mobilizing all of the trailers and shipping containers required to do so in a kind of temporary, asphalt raft-up—typically going operational within a few months.

In the case of REEF’s ghost kitchens, the company usually houses a half dozen restaurants on each of its lots and covers all of the operating costs, food safety permitting and health licenses, staffing, marketing, raw material deliveries, food prep, delivery management, and even manages the chefs doing the cooking. Full-time employees also are given vacation time, health insurance, paternity leave, and in some cases stock options.

In return for REEF’s real estate and back-of-house support, the company’s restaurants and brand partners pay a revenue share of gross profits off the top ergo if REEF’s partners don’t make money REEF doesn’t make money—so everyone has the same incentive to keep things running smoothly, maintain quality, and project brand consistency.

REEF has chosen to operate behind the scenes efficiently as opposed to burn cash on front facing … [+] marketing unlike WeWork

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From a real estate, sharing economy standpoint, if all of this whiffs a little like WeWork as well, it should—at least on face value.

Leasing someone else’s un-used stuff (i.e., a parking lot), carving it up into smaller, shinier pieces, and re-leasing the parts at a profit—a.k.a “arbitrage”—is well known in commercial real estate to be potentially risky business. It was partly responsible for the Great Recession and why WeWork’s still a mess today no matter how much new capital gets pumped into it.

Yet, REEF’s business model differs in several important ways.

First, nothing about the company is particularly overt or outwardly flashy with banners, promotions, signs, or logos at its sites shouting “who we are” (like WeWork). All of which says a lot about REEF’s core business philosophy. It doesn’t overspend. Nor is its purpose to replace brick and mortar storefronts through remote operations and delivery systems, but rather to help those businesses to better adapt to the future through technology and reach the end consumer more efficiently and effectively.

The second difference with WeWork is that REEF typically provides not only the physical real estate for its tenants (i.e., the arbitrage), but also the expertise, networks, business support, and labor to allow them to scale, increase revenues, and compete with larger, legacy brands through outsourced operations as well.

“REEF levels the playing field,” says the company’s Head of Communications, Mason Harrison. “For small businesses this kind of model is essential to giving local brands what the big companies already have: the tools and resources for rapid expansion into bigger markets. As a policy framework for the future, we’re full-throated supportive of what Miami is doing by setting a new standard and rethinking the vast swaths of under-utilized space that already exist in every city to help to make that happen.”

Francis Suarez attends Time 100 Next at Pier 17 on November 14, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by … [+] Taylor Hill/FilmMagic)

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All of which brings us back to Miami’s new MOU ordinance, America’s most famous Mayor, and why any of this matters in the first place.

While red-tape, zoning announcements generally aren’t needle movers when it comes to flash mob media, Miami’s new legislation sends a much louder message about the political and legal intentions of the city to provide a fertile environment for the next generation of disruptive, technology-based start-ups to get off the ground.

“Through Miami’s new legislation, REEF is providing the first legislative platform for innovative new food brands to scale and thrive,” says REEF’s Ojalvo. “And now Miami has created a clear policy framework for regulating delivery-only kitchens, making it easier for these types of food concepts to expand their reach into new neighborhoods while putting vacant, underutilized real estate that’s a drag on local property values to better use. Ultimately, it creates a paradigm for every other city in the world to make it easier for brands to reach customers.”  

Equally as important, says Ojalvo, is that Miami’s new legislation also establishes a center of gravity for other future phases of tech-driven, on-demand innovation, which in turn attracts the capital and infrastructure to bring those visions to life. Silicon Valley and Austin started doing something similar decades ago—bit by bit revising and restructuring small, seemingly meaningless zoning, financial, and business regulations to turn their cities into the technology and venture capital epicenters of the world.

“One of the great challenges with creating new businesses is that regulations are often slow to catch up,” Ojalvo explains. “Most cities have regulations governing brick and mortar establishments and food trucks, but no existing framework in place for what falls in between. With this policy Miami is setting a global example and showing that it is willing to take bold steps to support and champion innovation. This is our hometown, and it is also where we incubate and pilot new products and initiatives—from restaurant brands to robot delivery—and maintaining the support of the community as we’ve experimented and innovated has always been incredibly important to our growth. The City of Miami and its leadership are showing that they are serious about supporting startups and embracing innovation. Combined with all the highly talented people moving to Miami right now as a result of the pandemic, this cooperation between public leaders and the private sector should be a model for every city in the world to follow.”  

Fortunately for Ojalvo that political support so far appears to be unwavering, although no one in the tech world is debating that Miami’s a little late to the party. At rate the city’s catching up, however, people are already wondering when Magic City’s going to mint its second billionaire unicorn (REEF was the first).

“Legislation like this tells the tech world that we’re willing to do whatever it takes to be the innovation capital of the world,” says Mayor Suarez. “It’s a signal to the rest of the world that if you come here with innovative businesses and technologies we’re willing to innovate as a city around you and your technology to make sure that it works, that it’s given the support it needs to thrive, and that Miami is one of the most business friendly environments for the knowledge economy in America and the world. We continue to look for opportunities in the crypto space, in the biotech space, and attracting and building the best high-end educational, engineering, and STEM facilities in partnership with the private sector and with companies like REEF.”

The future of neighborhood logistics is here and it’s spectacular

Courtesy of REEF Technology

As for the future of proximity-as-a-platform, ghost kitchens, and pop-up last-block retail hubs, the smart money doesn’t seem to be betting against REEF’s new micro-logistics, on-demand economy. If anything, it’s consolidating.

In part thanks to SoftBank’s funding, REEF recently acquired international logistics giant DHL, last mile delivery start-up Bond, healthcare services provider Carbon Health, and EV charging start-up Get Charged. Along with robotics startup Cartken, REEF recently began carbon-free autonomous deliveries in Miami.

The company is also tapping into the growing Millennial demand and political tailwinds for more sustainable, walkable, and connected cities, including turning some of its locations into sustainable, neighborhood, carbon-neutral hubs for grocery, food, and package delivery, using e-cargo bikes and low speed vehicles to fulfill orders from temperature-controlled shipping containers directly to customers’ homes.

REEF also is already fielding inquiries from data and telecoms companies to support 5G expansion and host remote cloud computing hubs that can power the connectedness of every neighborhood and city in the U.S. on a micro level to the world.

“Data and infrastructure is a huge part of our neighborhood hub (concept),” Ojalvo recently wrote in Tech Crunch. “It’s like electricity. Without electricity and connectivity, we don’t have the world that we want to see.” 

Pop-up vertical farming on site in action

Couresty of REEF Technology

More experientially, REEF is partnering with vertical farming companies like Crate to Plate on urban, hydroponic agriculture initiatives in empty lots which use recycled shipping containers to achieve the same production as an acre of farmland, using less energy and 96% less water than traditional methods. A single 40’ shipping container, for example, has the potential to produce over 3 tons of leafy greens every year for the surrounding community, says Ojalvo, which could revolutionize food deserts for communities that don’t have access to fresh, healthy produce.

Finally, this summer, REEF is launching the first of its experiential, open-air entertainment experiences in Austin, opening up an entirely new sector for the company’s pop-up logistics and operations capabilities.

Welcome to America’s next tech hub . . .

Courtesy of REEF Technology

As for Miami as America’s next great tech hub?

“Miami is competing with global tech and innovation hubs for talent and companies,” says Ojalvo. “This legislation is really just the beginning of a journey towards reimagining underutilized urban spaces, and creating a zoning framework that supports mobile, modular and micro enabled zoning that can create more vibrant and walkable neighborhoods while also continuing to seed Miami as a global epicenter for innovation.”

Translation: Austin, Boston, and Silicon Valley should expect more shots across the bow.

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