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New York is Among Nine States Posting Job Gains

Business First 
Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Just nine states have managed to add jobs during the past half-decade -- and New York is among them.

The other 41 states currently have smaller employment bases than they did at the end of 2006, according to a new On Numbers breakdown of data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The study predates the recession, which officially began in December 2007.

New York has 3,700 more jobs now than it did five years ago, putting it in 10th place for job growth out of all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

Click here for a database with complete state-by-state breakdowns.

Texas and North Dakota registered the biggest five-year gains in employment.

Texas is the leader in raw numbers, adding 451,100 nonfarm jobs between November 2006 and November 2011. (The latter is the most recent month for which official figures are available.) No other state picked up more than 57,000 jobs during that span.

North Dakota's increase of 12.7 percent is easily the biggest employment gain in percentage terms. Texas ranks second at 4.4 percent.

On Numbers is an online service of American City Business Journals Inc., the parent company of Business First.