​Westchester County Helps New York's Private Sector Grow

YORKTOWN, NY — Over the past year, from August 2015 to August 2016, New York State’s private sector job count climbed by 120,400, or 1.5 percent, according to preliminary figures released Thursday by the New York State Department of Labor.

However, in August 2016, the state’s private sector job count fell by 12,400.

“Looking over the past year, the New York State economy has added more than 120,000 private sector jobs,” said Bohdan M. Wynnyk, deputy director of the Department of Labor’s Division of Research and Statistics.

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The Dutchess-Putnam “metro area” added 3,000 private sector jobs, officials said, while Orange-Rockland-Westchester added 8,300.

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

• Kingston (+3.4%)
• Dutchess-Putnam (+2.5%)
• Watertown-Fort Drum (+2.5%)
• New York City (+2.4%)
• Ithaca (+2.2%)

Over the past year, six metro areas in the state – Elmira (-1.5%), Binghamton (-1.2%), Glens Falls (-0.6%), Syracuse (-0.5%), Albany-Schenectady-Troy (-0.4%) and Rochester (-0.4%) – 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.

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