The Syracuse, Watertown–Fort Drum, Binghamton, and Elmira regions all gained jobs between March 2024 and this past March. At the same time, the Utica–Rome and Ithaca metro areas lost jobs in that same 12-month period. That’s according to the monthly employment report that the New York State Department of Labor issued on April 17. The […]
The Syracuse, Watertown–Fort Drum, Binghamton, and Elmira regions all gained jobs between March 2024 and this past March.
At the same time, the Utica–Rome and Ithaca metro areas lost jobs in that same 12-month period. That’s according to the monthly employment report that the New York State Department of Labor issued on April 17.
The Syracuse region gained 5,800 jobs between March of last year and March 2025, an increase of 1.9 percent.
Elsewhere, the Watertown–Fort Drum area added 800 jobs, a gain of 2 percent; the Binghamton region gained 500 jobs, a rise of 0.5 percent; and the Elmira area picked up 300 positions, an increase of 0.9 percent, in the same timeframe.
On the flip side, the Utica–Rome region lost 300 jobs, a dip of 0.2 percent, and the Ithaca area shed 200 jobs, a decline of 0.4 percent, in the past year.
New York state as a whole added more than 114,000 jobs, an increase of 1.2 percent, between March 2024 and this past March.
The state economy also gained more than 6,000 jobs, a 0.1 percent uptick, between February and March of this year, the state Department of Labor reported.
