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YORKTOWN, NY — The job categories that added the most new jobs over the last year continue to be two industry sectors: educational and health services in the private sector followed by leisure and hospitality, according to state labor department officials.

Data released for August 2015 to August 2016 saw the two top categories add even more jobs than the previous period of July 2015 to July 2016.

Unfortunately, the two sectors with the most job losses continue to be manufacturing followed by natural resources and mining. Both categories, however, lost fewer jobs in the August 2015 to August 2106 period than the previous one.

Change in Jobs by Major Industry Sector — August 2015 to August 2016

Sectors With Job Gains:

• Educational & Health Services* +58,500
• Leisure & Hospitality +31,000
• Other Services +9,400
• Trade, Transportation & Utilities +9,300
• Information +7,400
• Construction +5,900
• Government* +5,300
• Professional & Business Services +1,800
• Financial Activities +300

Sectors With Job Losses:

• Manufacturing -2,900
• Natural Resources & Mining -300

* Educational and health services is in the private sector. Government includes public education and public health services.

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Labor officials said New York’s private sector job count climbed by 1.5 percent from August 2015 to August 2016.

“Looking over the past year, the New York State economy has added more than 120,000 private sector jobs and our statewide unemployment rate has dropped by 0.2 percentage points,” said Bohdan M. Wynnyk, deputy director of the state Department of Labor’s Division of Research and Statistics.

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, August 2015 versus August 2016.

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