New York, NY – City Job Growth 5 Times National Level

New York, NY – The metro area added 39,800 new jobs over the past year, despite the slow economy – with the five boroughs accounting for 92 percent of those jobs, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The city’s job-growth rate for the year was five times the national level, according to BLS national survey. But that still amounted to an annual growth of only 1 percent, the weakest since December, 2004.