As employers struggle to fill jobs, Capital Region manufacturers, retailers and warehousing operators are having better success at attracting workers from other sectors than they did before the pandemic, when compared to employers in healthcare and construction, according to a Center for Economic Growth (CEG). Fewer Job Flows In
Sand and gravel mining operations for Callanan Industries (left), R.J. Valente (right). As road crews head out this spring to work on roads and other construction projects, they are being supported by a mining industry in the Capital Region that has grown to one of the
CEG Tours German MFGs for Apprenticeship Best Practices Morcon Tissue, Eagle Bridge Employment in Capital Region’s manufacturing sector last summer grew to its highest level in more than two decades – driven by manufacturers such as Plug Power, BelGioioso Cheese, Morcon Tissue and Medline Industries, according to a Center
Boosted by its manufacturing sector, Saratoga County last summer had the nation’s 15th fastest growing weekly average wage among the 356 largest U.S. counties, according to new a Center of Economic Growth (CEG) analysis of new data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. During the third quarter of 2022,
Capital Region unemployment last year fell to its lowest level in more than three decades, according to a Center for Economic Growth analysis of New York State Department of Labor data. Preliminary data shows the eight-county region’s 2022 unemployment rate was 2.9 percent. Before last year, the lowest the region’s
The Capital Region’s health insurance industry last year realized its second largest annual gain in jobs in more than two decades and grew to record employment. Even more, the area’s health insurance industry now stands as the 11th largest in the country by employment and the third most concentrated, according
Since the start of the pandemic, employment in the Capital Region’s warehousing and storage has increased by 75 percent and has grown to the ninth largest industry in the Northeast, according to a Center for Economic Growth (CEG) analysis of data from the New York State Department of Labor and
Prior to the pandemic, the Capital Region’s gig economy was expanding. In fact, Greene, Schenectady and Columbia counties were among New York’s fastest-growing counties for nonemployer establishments, according to a Center for Economic Growth (CEG) analysis of new U.S. Census Bureau data. In 2019, the eight-county Capital Region had 75,148
The Capital Region regained more than 8,000 jobs in 2021 but four times that amount is still needed to return the eight counties to their pre-pandemic employment level. And although restaurants and bars were the biggest gainers of jobs in 2021, they also continued to sustain the heaviest losses since
High school students participate in Capital Region BOCES’s culinary program (left) and global fashion program with a retail window display project at the Colonie Center. Amid a tight labor force and abundance of summer job openings, high school-aged workers are leading the area in not only returning to
