Private-sector employment gains in June in Westchester County and neighboring Putnam and Rockland counties trailed job growth for the month in the greater Hudson Valley region, where job numbers rose 0.9 percent from May and 1.2 percent from June 2013, the state Department of Labor reported Thursday.
Job growth in June in the Hudson Valley”™s private sector trailed both statewide employment growth from a year ago, which amounted to 1.8 percent, and the nation”™s 2.2 percent job growth since June last year, according to the Labor Department.
The lower Hudson Valley labor market that includes Westchester, Rockland and Putnam added 4,100 private-sector jobs in June from the previous month, a 0.8 percent increase. Private companies employed a total of 488,200 workers in June in the tricounty area, a net increase of 3,100 jobs, or 0.6 percent, from June last year, according to the Labor Department.
Since June last year, the three counties have lost 1,800 construction jobs, a nearly 6 percent decline, and 1,000 manufacturing jobs, a decrease of slightly more than 4 percent. The construction industry shed 100 jobs in June from the previous month, while manufacturers added 200 jobs for the month, the Labor Department reported.
Education and health services employers over a 12-month period led the tricounty area in hiring with 4,800 jobs added since June 2013, a 4.1 percent increase. Those employers, though, last month shed 2,100 jobs from their May employment levels, a 1.7 percent decrease.
Professional and business services companies in the three counties last month employed 1,500 more workers than in June last year, a 2 percent gain. Those private employers last month added 1,300 jobs from their May employment levels, a 1.7 percent increase.
The seven-county Hudson Valley region employed 765,500 private sector workers in June, a net increase of 7,200 jobs from May. The region gained 8,800 private-sector jobs from a year ago.
The Kingston labor market led the region with 2.8 percent growth from a year ago, followed by the Poughkeepsie-Newburgh-Middletown market, where private-sector employment last month rose 2.3 percent from June last year.
Rural Sullivan County was the only area in the region that lost private-sector jobs from June 2013 to last month, with a 1.5 percent decline.
The state Labor Department said June marked the 19th consecutive month of private-sector job growth in New York, the state”™s longest recorded streak of job gains since at least 1990. New York is one of 19 states that have regained all private-sector jobs lost during the Great Recession, according to state officials.
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