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Construction employment on Long Island increased again in February.
Nassau and Suffolk counties added 3,600 construction jobs from Feb. 2022 to Feb. 2023, a 5 percent year-over-year gain, rising from 75,200 to 78,800, according to a report from the Associated General Contractors of America.
Regionally, the number of construction jobs in New York City was up 5 percent, gaining 6,600 jobs from Feb. 2022 to Feb. 2023, increasing from 138,600 to 145,200.
Construction employment in the Orange/Rockland/Westchester area was up 5 percent, adding 1,900 jobs from Feb. 2022 to Feb. 2023 and rising from 41,600 to 43,500.
Between Feb. 2022 to Feb. 2023, construction employment rose in 283 metro areas, declined in 41 metro areas and remained flat in 34 areas, according to the AGCA report.
Association officials said contractors continue to struggle to find enough skilled workers. Government data released this week showed there were 384,000 job openings in construction nationally at the end of February, topping the 315,000 workers hired during the entire month. The disparity implied that contractors wanted to hire more than twice as many employees as they were able to find.
“Although construction employment rose in nearly four-fifths of all metros in the past 12 months, contractors are still struggling fill jobs,” Ken Simonson, the association’s chief economist, said in an association statement. “There were more far job openings in construction at the end of February than construction employees hired in the entire month.”
Metro areas adding the most construction jobs over the last year include the Dallas area, which gained 15,000 jobs for a 10 percent rise; the Las Vegas area, which added 9,100 jobs for a 13 percent gain; and the Atlanta area, which gained 8,900 jobs for a 7 percent increase.
The metro areas seeing the largest drops in construction employment from Feb. 2022 to Feb. 2023 include the Sacramento, Calif. area, which lost 4,200 jobs for a 6 percent drop; the Los Angeles area, which lost 3,200 jobs for a 2 percent drop; and the Pittsburgh area, which dropped 3,100 jobs for a 6 percent decline.
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