New York Added 34,000 Jobs in December

Last month New York State’s economy added 34,300 private sector jobs, the State Department of lLabor reported recently. This addition brings the state’s overall 2012 year-to-date private sector job gain to 123,200.

Additionally, this job growth resulted in New York reaching an all-time high private sector job count of 7,353,000.

Between November and December 2012, New York State’s unemployment rate fell from 8.3 to 8.2 percent.

The rate in New York City remained unchanged at 8.8 percent in December, while the rate in the balance of state region (New York State outside of New York City) dropped over the month from 7.9 to 7.8 percent.