Texas No. 1 in U.S. for biggest 5-year job gains

Texas No. 1 in U.S. for biggest 5-year job gains

Austin Business Journal by Houston Business Journal

Date: Tuesday, December 27, 2011, 9:38am CST - Last Modified: Tuesday, December 27, 2011, 10:20am CST

Texas added far more jobs than any other state in the country in the past five years.

The Lone Star State had 10,629,300 non-farm jobs as of November, a gain of 451,100 jobs since the same month in 2006, an analysis of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics    U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Latest from The Business Journals Texas adds retail jobs when most states lost themGovernment employment keeps growing in New Mexico, most statesFlorida among hardest hit by retail job loss Follow this company data by The Business Journals’ On Numbers shows.

Louisiana was a distant second in the number of non-farm jobs added during that five-year span, with 57,000.

North Dakota saw the highest job percentage increase during the period, boosting payrolls by 12.67 percent. Texas saw the nation’s second-highest percentage employment gain, at 4.43 percent.

Just nine states and the District of Columbia have added jobs during that period.

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