The recently released Otis College Report on the Creative Economy for 2024 reaffirms how important the “creative economy” is to California, where it is responsible for more than 760,000 jobs, accounting for one in five creative jobs in the US. The annual report looks at the prior year in what is broadly defined as the creative economy—a category that includes fields like film and television, toy design, music, fashion, architecture, theatre, dance, art schools, museums and galleries.