Although industrial employment in New York held steady in the last year, jobs grew 2.7 percent in upstate New York, according to the 2013 New York Manufacturers Registe, an industrial directory published annually by Manufacturers' News Inc. in Evanston, Ill.
That grow is made up by 1,361 new industrial jobs that were created between August 2011 and August 2012; however, the rest of New York lost 294 jobs. New York now accounts for 16,922 manufacturers employing 733,548 workers.
"New York continues to see its manufacturing sector improve with fewer losses reported over the past couple years and a slight gain reported for this survey period," says Tom Dubin, president of MNI. "Despite its high business costs, the state still has the advantage of a highly educated work force and access to capital."
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The top industrial sector by employment is printing and publishing with 116,441 jobs for no significant change. Second-ranked industrial machinery and equipment employment also kept even with 78,845 jobs, and electronics comes in third with 0.5 percent increase and 71,519 jobs.
Of the industrial sectors with job growth in the last year are petroleum and coal products at 8.4 percent, miscellaneous manufacturing at 5 percent, chemicals at 2.7 percent, primary metals at 1.2 percent and food products at 1 percent. Sectors with losses are furniture and fixtures at minus 8.8 percent, transportation equipment at minus 4.8 percent, lumber and wood at minus 3.9 percent, and paper products at minus 2.7 percent.
The New York City metro area employs the most industrial jobs with 397,214 manufacturing positions, nearly a 1 percent increase in the past year, while Western New York comes in second with 188,204 industrial jobs, which is unchanged last year. Rochester and Buffalo account for 35 percent of these jobs as Rochester employs 44,296 workers and Buffalo employs 22,685. Central New York offers 98,013 jobs, down 2.4 percent, and the upstate and Adirondack region has 50,117 jobs.
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