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CNY areas post job gains in August compared to a year ago

The Syracuse, Utica–Rome, Watertown–Fort Drum, Binghamton, Ithaca, and Elmira regions generated job growth ranging between about 1 percent and 5 percent between August 2021 and this past August. That’s according to the latest monthly employment report that the New York State Department of Labor (NYSDOL) issued Sept. 15. The Syracuse metro area gained 8,800 jobs […]

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The Syracuse, Utica–Rome, Watertown–Fort Drum, Binghamton, Ithaca, and Elmira regions generated job growth ranging between about 1 percent and 5 percent between August 2021 and this past August.

That’s according to the latest monthly employment report that the New York State Department of Labor (NYSDOL) issued Sept. 15.

The Syracuse metro area gained 8,800 jobs in the past year culminating in August, an increase of 2.9 percent.

Elsewhere in Central New York, the Utica–Rome region picked up 1,300 positions, up 1.1 percent; the Watertown–Fort Drum area added 1,100 jobs, an increase of 2.7 percent; the Binghamton region gained 2,700 jobs, a rise of 2.9 percent; the Ithaca metro area added 2,900 jobs, a jump of 5 percent; and the Elmira region picked up 300 positions in the past year, an increase of about 0.9 percent.

New York state as a whole added 441,500 jobs, an increase of about 4.9 percent, between August 2021 and this August. The state economy also gained more than 25,000 jobs, a 0.3 percent rise, between July and August of this year, the state Department of Labor said.

Eric Reinhardt