Hot NY Jobs This Year: Health Care, Social Assistance, Tech Services, Ambulatory Care

In June 2017, New York State’s private sector job count increased by a tiny bit, 23,900 or 0.3 percent, to 8,079,200. Still, that's a new record high, according to preliminary figures released today by the New York State Department of Labor. However, in June, New York’s statewide unemployment rate increased from 4.4 percent to 4.5 percent.

Since the end of the State’s recession in late 2009, New York has added more than 1.1 million private sector jobs.

“New York’s labor market continued to expand in June 2017. The State’s private sector job count increased by 23,900, reaching a new record high,” said Bohdan M. Wynnyk, Director of the New York State Department of Labor’s Division of Research and Statistics.

Highlights among New York State sectors with job gains since June 2016:

• Private educational and health services added the most jobs (+67,000) of any major industry sector over the past year. Sector job gains were mostly in health care and social assistance (+64,600), especially ambulatory health care (+30,200).
• From June 2016 to June 2017, the second largest employment increase occurred in professional and business services (+50,900). Sector gains were centered in professional, scientific and technical services (+31,200) and administrative and support services (+17,000).
• The third largest increase in jobs over the past year occurred in leisure and hospitality, which grew by 37,300. Most over-the-year sector job gains were in accommodation and food services (+24,800), especially food services and drinking places (+19,500).
• Other services had the fourth largest increase in jobs (+10,300) between June 2016 and June 2017. Over-the-year sector gains were concentrated in religious, grant-making and civic organizations (+6,400) and repair and maintenance services (+2,300).

Highlights among New York State sectors with job losses since June 2016:

• Over the past 12 months, manufacturing lost the most jobs (-16,300) of any major industry sector in New York State. Over-the-year sector losses were concentrated in durable goods (-15,300), especially computers and electronic products (-3,000) and fabricated metals (-2,300).
• From June 2016 to June 2017, the second largest employment decrease occurred in information, which lost 2,100 jobs. Sector job losses were focused in telecommunications (-3,200).

Fourteen metro areas in New York State added private sector jobs over the past year, with the most rapid employment growth in these areas:

• New York City (+2.6%)
• Utica-Rome (+2.3%)
• Watertown-Fort Drum(+2.2%)
• Glens Falls (+1.9%)
• Orange-Rockland-Westchester (+1.8%)
• Nassau-Suffolk (+1.7%)
• Dutchess-Putnam (+1.6%)

Over the past year, only one metro area in the state – Elmira (-1.0%) – lost private sector jobs.

The State’s private sector job count is based on a payroll survey of 18,000 New York employers conducted by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics. Monthly payroll employment estimates are preliminary and subject to revision as more data becomes available the following month. The federal government calculates New York State’s unemployment rate based partly upon the results of the Current Population Survey, which contacts approximately 3,100 households in New York State each month.