Report: CNY region job picture mixed in the past 12 months

The Syracuse region added more than 4,000 jobs in the past year, and the Utica–Rome, Ithaca, and Watertown–Fort Drum areas also posted solid job-growth numbers.

Bucking the trend, the Binghamton and Elmira regions both lost jobs over the last year.

That’s according to the latest monthly employment report for November that the New York State Department of Labor issued on Thursday.

The Syracuse region gained 4,100 jobs between November 2016 and this November, an increase of 1.3 percent.

The Utica–Rome metro area added 1,100 jobs in the past year, a rise of 0.9 percent.

The Watertown–Fort Drum region gained 600 jobs in the same period, an increase of 1.4 percent.

The Ithaca area added 1,500 jobs between November 2016 and this past November, a gain of 2.3 percent.

The Elmira region lost 800 jobs in the past year, a decrease of 2.1 percent. The Binghamton area lost 200 jobs, a decrease of 0.2 percent in the past 12 months.

New York state as a whole gained more than 113,000 jobs, an increase of 1.2 percent, in the past year. The state economy added nearly 25,000 jobs, a 0.3 percent gain, in the past month, the labor department said.

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