3 regions added jobs, while 3 lost them Half the Central New York regions gained jobs in the past year while the other half shed positions, according to a recent state-government report. The Syracuse, Binghamton, and Ithaca areas gained jobs between July 2022 and this past July. At the same time, the Utica–Rome, Watertown–Fort Drum, […]
3 regions added jobs, while 3 lost them
Half the Central New York regions gained jobs in the past year while the other half shed positions, according to a recent state-government report.
The Syracuse, Binghamton, and Ithaca areas gained jobs between July 2022 and this past July. At the same time, the Utica–Rome, Watertown–Fort Drum, and Elmira regions lost jobs in that one-year period.
That’s according to the latest monthly employment report that the New York State Department of Labor issued on Aug. 17.
July jobs data
The Syracuse region gained 5,100 total jobs between July 2022 and July 2023, an increase of 1.6 percent.
The Utica–Rome metro area lost 300 jobs, a 0.2 percent drop; the Watertown–Fort Drum region also shed 300 positions, a 0.7 percent decline; the Binghamton area gained 400 jobs, up 0.4 percent; the Ithaca region added 1,800 positions, a 3 percent jump; and the Elmira metro area subtracted 300 jobs in the last year, a decline of 0.9 percent.
New York state as a whole added 144,900 jobs, an increase of 1.5 percent, between July 2022 and this July.
