ALBANY – Ulster County, with a 3.8 percent growth in jobs during the 12 months ending in March, ranked as the number one metropolitan region in the state for job growth.
The state labor department reported Thursday that the Orange-Rockland-Westchester Metro Area had a 2.6 percent job growth during the same period while jobs in the Dutchess-Putnam Metropolitan Division rose by 1.9 percent.
Greene County had a 3.0 percent rate of job growth, while Columbia County jobs increased by 1.9 percent.
Only Sullivan County lost jobs in the Hudson Valley/Catskills with 0.6 percent fewer jobs.
For the entire region, jobs grew by 2.5 percent, to 773,600.
Jobs were added in natural resources, mining and construction, educational and health services; other services; professional and business services; and trade, transportation and utilities. Job losses were centered in leisure and hospitality; and manufacturing. The government sector added 1,300 jobs over the period.
