The bulk of the recent gains have been in areas other than education. Although some individual schools have either expanded payrolls or trimmed staff, total education employment has changed little over the past few months.
Despite the good news, the sector’s job growth as a whole has actually slowed so far this year. Local government employment has increased only 0.4 percent since January. That’s roughly half the growth over the same period last year and about the same as 2015.
Year | January Employment | July Employment | Change |
---|---|---|---|
2013 | 14,034 | 14,024 | -0.07% |
2014 | 14,025 | 14,114 | 0.63% |
2015 | 14,147 | 14,206 | 0.42% |
2016 | 14,255 | 14,362 | 0.75% |
2017 | 14,399 | 14,453 | 0.38% |