The year-to-year rate of job creation in upstate New York remained notably weaker than the average for the rest of the state or the nation as a whole last month, according to the latest data from the state Department of Labor (DOL).
New York State as a whole gained 104,200 private jobs between May 2012 and May 2013, a growth rate of 1.4 percent, while private employment nationally grew by more than 2.2 million, a growth rate of 2 percent. During the same period, however, the 50-county upstate region (as defined by DOL) added just 20,400 jobs, a growth rate of 0.8 percent.
The weakest upstate metro areas remain Binghamton (down 100 jobs, or -0.8 percent) and Elmira (down 400 jobs, or -1.2 percent), which also would have the most to gain from the issuance of state regulations allowing for natural gas hydrofracking. The strongest were Poughkeepsie (which could just as easily be classified as downstate) and Kingston, where private employment grew by 2 percent and 2.6 percent, respectively.
There’s the full metro area breakdown from the DOL press release:
About the Author
You may also like
As leaves turn, NY’s post-pandemic recovery still has very far to go
New York was the national epicenter of the pandemic, and Governor Cuomo's "New York State on PAUSE" business shutdowns and other restrictions led, in short order, to the loss of nearly 2 million jobs in the first full month after the infection began spreading in the New York City area. Read More
More NY job gains in August—but employment needs to rise a lot further
New York's jobs report for August looked relatively strong—but only by comparison, that is, with what was generally regarded as a disappointing national number. On a seasonally adjusted basis, New York gained 28,000 private-sector jobs last month—a growth rate of 0.4 percent, according to preliminary monthly estimates from the state Labor Department. Read More
NY Post-Pandemic Employment Tide Stopped Rising At Year’s End
New York's post-pandemic employment recovery came to a halt and moved into reverse in December, according to the state's for the final month of COVID-wracked 2020.
Private payroll employment in December was 966,000 jobs below the level of the previous Read More
Fewer Workers, Not More Jobs, Explains NY’s September Unemployment Rate Drop
New York State's unemployment rate has fallen sharply since the economically devastating pandemic lockdown last spring. But as state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli points out in his latest economic report, the jobless rate doesn't tell the whole story. Read More
It’s Official: New York State’s Second Quarter Economic Crash Was the Worst on Record
Further evidence of the massive damage done to New York’s economy by the coronavirus pandemic shutdown has emerged in the latest gross domestic product (GDP) data from the federal Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Affairs. Read More
Sluggish Reopening: NY’s Private Job Count Down 1.1 Million From Pre-Pandemic Level
Six months into the novel coronavirus pandemic, New York State's private-sector employment recovery was the slowest in the 48 contiguous states—and getting slower. Read More
NY’s Slow Job Climb Continued in July, But Unemployment Rate Unchanged
As the economy continued its slow post-pandemic reopening, New York State continued to slowly regain jobs—but preliminary data indicate there was no improvement in the state's unemployment rate in July. Read More
New Data Confirm New York State’s Q1 Economic Plunge
New York's economy ended the first quarter of this year in virtual free fall, the latest federal data show. Read More
Enjoying our work? Sign up for email alerts on our latest news and research.
Together, we can make New York a better place to live and work!