See the Hottest Job Sectors in NY on Ossining-Croton-on-Hudson Patch

The hottest job categories in New York right now fit into four industry sectors: educational and health services; leisure and hospitality; professional and business services; and construction.

New York’s economy has added 824,100 private sector jobs and experienced employment growth in 57 of the past 66 months, state labor officials said.

Even the number of government jobs, which have been shrinking since the Great Recession, showed growth in the past 12 months, the labor department reported.

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Change in Jobs by Major Industry Sector, June 2015 – June 2016

*Educational and health services is in the private sector. Government includes public education and public health services.
Sectors With Job Gains:

• Educational & Health Services* +49,100
• Leisure & Hospitality +28,400
• Professional & Business Services +12,400
• Construction +10,900
• Information +8,700
• Government* +6,600
• Other Services +6,400
• Trade, Transportation & Utilities +5,800
• Financial Activities +2,000

Sectors With Job Losses:

• Manufacturing -2,600
• Natural Resources & Mining -400

“New York State’s labor market continued to strengthen in June 2016, reaching a new record high in private sector jobs. In addition, the state’s over-the-month percentage gain in private sector jobs (+0.3%) in June was greater than the nation’s (+0.2%),” said Bohdan M. Wynnyk, Deputy Director of the New York State Department of Labor’s Division of Research and Statistics, in the announcement.

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.

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, June 2015 versus June 2016.