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New York State Labor Department

New York State Labor Department

  • New York City Further Dominates State Job Growth; Rest of State Still Growing Slowly

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    (photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office)


    New York City is now utterly dominating job growth in the State of New York. In the past two-and-a-half years, 79% of all new jobs in the state have been created in New York City.

    New York State Labor Department seasonally-adjusted data show that 230,000 of the nearly 293,000 jobs created in the state from December 2016 to June 2019 were in the city. The growth rate in the city for the two-and-a-half year period was 2.1% per year; for the rest of the state separate from the city, the growth rate was

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