Private Sector Grows in County: NY Labor Department

YORKTOWN, NY — In the past 12 months, from October 2015 to October 2016, New York State’s private sector job count climbed by 89,900, or 1.1 percent, according to preliminary figures released Thursday by the New York State Department of Labor.

However, the number of jobs in the private sector fell in October, by 4,000.

“Looking over the past year, the New York State economy has added 89,900 private sector jobs,” said Bohdan M. Wynnyk, Deputy Director of the New York State Department of Labor’s Division of Research and Statistics.

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

• Ithaca (+3.8%)
• Kingston (+2.5%)
• Watertown-Fort Drum (+2.3%)
• New York City (+1.8%)
• Dutchess-Putnam (+1.4%)
• Over the past year, three metro areas in the state – Binghamton (-1.5%), Utica-Rome (-1.0%) and Elmira (-0.3%) – lost private sector jobs.

The Orange-Rockland-Westchester metro area was one of the 11, but its growth — adding 7,100 — private sector jobs, wasn't at a high enough rate to make the department's October list.

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.

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