Nearly all of New York State’s year-to-year private sector employment growth remains concentrated in New York City and its suburbs, according to the latest state Labor Department statistics.
On a statewide basis, private employment in September was up 115,000 jobs, a 1.5 percent growth rate for a period in which the U.S. as a whole grew by 1.9 percent, today’s jobs report said.
New York City ran ahead of the national average, with 83,300 added private jobs translating into a net growth rate of 2.3 percent.
As shown in the table below, among major upstate areas, Buffalo and Rochester grew at decidedly paltry 0.3 percent rates, while the Albany and Syracuse areas added no private jobs at all. The sickly Southern Tier continues to sink, as evidenced by falling job totals in Binghamton and Elmira.
The bright spot among upstate metros was tiny, higher-ed dominated Ithaca, which added 4,300 jobs. Non-metro rural areas also were up, but at a less robust 0.7 percent rate. The breakdown by metro area is detailed in the following table.
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