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Report: Most CNY regions added jobs in the last year

The Syracuse, Utica–Rome, Watertown–Fort Drum, Binghamton, and Ithaca regions all generated job growth between May 2022 and this past May. Bucking the trend in the broader Central New York area was the Elmira region, which lost jobs in the same period. The data comes from the latest monthly employment report that the New York State […]

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The Syracuse, Utica–Rome, Watertown–Fort Drum, Binghamton, and Ithaca regions all generated job growth between May 2022 and this past May.

Bucking the trend in the broader Central New York area was the Elmira region, which lost jobs in the same period. The data comes from the latest monthly employment report that the New York State Department of Labor issued on June 15.

The Syracuse area gained 8,400 jobs in the past year, an increase of 2.7 percent.

The Utica–Rome region picked up 300 positions, up 0.2 percent; the Watertown–Fort Drum area added 400 jobs, a rise of 1 percent; the Binghamton region gained 700 jobs, up 0.7 percent; the Ithaca metro area added 1,000 jobs, up 1.6 percent; but the Elmira region shed 300 positions in the past year, a loss of 0.8 percent.

New York state as a whole added nearly 217,000 jobs, an increase of 2.3 percent, in that one-year period.

Eric Reinhardt