Rockland Helps NY Add Private Sector Jobs

In December 2015, New York State’s private sector job count increased by 13,200. That’s not a lot -- 0.2 percent -- but it pushed the state to a record high in private sector employment.

The private sector now employs 7,880,000 people in New York, according to preliminary figures released today by the New York State Department of Labor.

Find local private sector jobs in the Jobs section on Nyack-Piermont Patch.

“New York’s labor market continued on its upward trend in December 2015,” said Bohdan M. Wynnyk, Deputy Director of the Division of Research and Statistics.

Over the past year, private sector jobs grew most rapidly in these metro areas in New York State:

• • New York City (+2.3%)
  • Orange-Rockland-Westchester (+2.1%)
  • Nassau-Suffolk (+1.9%)
  • Utica-Rome (+1.6%)
  • Buffalo-Niagara Falls (+1.5%)
  • Syracuse (+1.5%)

Between December 2014 and December 2015, three metro areas in the state -- Dutchess-Putnam (-2.5%), Binghamton (-2.3%), and Ithaca (-1.6%) -- 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.

Labor officials said that 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.

Note: Seasonally adjusted data are used to provide the most valid month-to-month comparison. Non-seasonally adjusted data are valuable in year-to-year comparisons of the same month; for example, December 2014 versus December 2015.