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CNY regions post year-over-year job gains in September

The Syracuse, Utica–Rome, Watertown–Fort Drum, Binghamton, Ithaca, and Elmira regions all gained jobs between September 2021 and this past September. The Central New York subregions generated job growth ranging from 0.8 percent in the Ithaca region to 3.1 percent in the Binghamton area in the past 12 months. That’s according to the latest monthly employment […]

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The Syracuse, Utica–Rome, Watertown–Fort Drum, Binghamton, Ithaca, and Elmira regions all gained jobs between September 2021 and this past September.

The Central New York subregions generated job growth ranging from 0.8 percent in the Ithaca region to 3.1 percent in the Binghamton area in the past 12 months.

That’s according to the latest monthly employment report that the New York State Department of Labor (NYS DOL) issued Oct. 20.

September jobs-data details

The Syracuse region gained 8,600 jobs in the past year, up 2.8 percent.

The Utica–Rome metro area picked up 2,900 positions, an increase of 2.4 percent; the Watertown–Fort Drum region gained 1,100 jobs, a rise of 2.7 percent; the Binghamton area added 3,000 jobs, a jump of 3.1 percent; the Ithaca region gained 500 jobs, an increase of 0.8 percent; and the Elmira area added 700 jobs in the past year, a rise of 2.0 percent.

New York state as a whole gained nearly 378,000 jobs, an increase of 4.1 percent, in that 12-month period. The state economy also added more than 15,000 jobs, up 0.2 percent, between August and September of this year, the state Labor Department said.

Eric Reinhardt