Like a tree, each of these groups is integral to the health and wellbeing of the town and helps it flourish.
The Branches
- Plumbers, electricians, carpenters, nurses
City employees and teachers
- Professional workforce
- Mostly college- or trade-school educated
- Positions with good salaries and benefits
- Involved in family life and community
- Would like to own a home here but can’t afford it
- Mostly commuting
$40 to $58 per hour ($83,200 to $120,640 annual household income)
The Trunk
- Skilled workforce
- Retail clerks, office and winery workers
- Bank clerks, hospitality industry workers
- High school education, some college
and/or trade school - Young and old, singles and married, seniors—
great diversity - Many commuting from long distances so they can
own a home - Others living in rentals in town
$21 to $39 per hour ($43,680 to $81,120 annual
household income)
The Roots
- Unskilled workforce
- Laborers, dishwashers, prep cooks and housekeepers
- Landscape and hospitality workers some vineyard workers
- Often lower education level; untrained or semiskilled labor
- Young, socially isolated singles and laborers with families
- Living in rentals in town, with family or commuting
long distances
$14 to $20 per hour ($29,000 to $41,600 annual household income)