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(The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)
Archived articles from The Editor's Desk—
Metropolitan areas and counties
- Employment and wages up in large counties (09/28/2012)
- Metropolitan area employment and unemployment, July 2012 (08/30/2012)
- Atlanta's air transportation industry, 1990–2010 (08/27/2012)
- Metropolitan area employment and unemployment, June 2012 (08/02/2012)
- Employment up, wages down, in large counties (06/29/2012)
- Metropolitan area employment and unemployment, May 2012 (06/28/2012)
- Metropolitan area employment and unemployment, April 2012 (05/31/2012)
- Metropolitan area employment and unemployment, March 2012 (05/03/2012)
- Unemployment rates lower from February 2011 to 2012 (04/18/2012)
- County employment, September 2011 (03/30/2012)
- Metropolitan area employment and unemployment, January 2012 (03/28/2012)
- Metropolitan area employment and unemployment, December 2011 (02/07/2012)
- County wages up in second quarter 2011 (01/11/2012)
- Metro area employment and unemployment, November 2011 (01/05/2012)
- Metropolitan area employment and unemployment, October 2011 (12/08/2011)
- Employment and unemployment in the Midwest, September 2011 (11/09/2011)
- New York City's "pay premium" from 1990 to 2009 (11/08/2011)
- Employment in large counties, March 2010–March 2011 (11/02/2011)
- State employment and unemployment, September 2011 (10/28/2011)
- Employment in Silicon Valley high-tech businesses, 2000–2009 (10/14/2011)
- Employment in large counties, March 2010–March 2011 (10/04/2011)
- Metropolitan area unemployment rates comparison, August 2011 (10/03/2011)
- Employment in large metropolitan areas, August 2011 (09/30/2011)
- Employment and unemployment in the Northeast, July 2011 (09/06/2011)
- Unemployment in large U.S. metropolitan areas, June 2011 (08/08/2011)
- Metropolitan area employment in June 2011 (08/05/2011)
- Employment and wages in the 10 largest U.S. counties, 2009-2010 (07/06/2011)
- Metropolitan area unemployment rates, May 2011 (07/05/2011)
- Metropolitan area employment, May 2011 (07/01/2011)
- Employer costs for employee compensation in March 2011 (06/10/2011)
- Employment and unemployment in the Southwest, April 2011 (06/03/2011)
- Pay comparisons between metropolitan areas in 2010 (05/27/2011)
- Employment during the 2007–2009 recession (05/04/2011)
- Metropolitan area unemployment in March 2011 (04/29/2011)
- Employment in metropolitan areas, March 2011 (04/28/2011)
- Unemployment in metropolitan areas, February 2011 (04/11/2011)
- Metropolitan area employment, February 2011 (04/08/2011)
- Employment and wages in large U.S. counties, September 2009–September 2010 (03/31/2011)
- Employment and unemployment in the Southeast, January 2011 (03/23/2011)
- Employment and unemployment in the West, December 2010 (02/04/2011)
- Employment changes among large U.S. counties, June 2009–June 2010 (01/13/2011)
- Metropolitan area unemployment in November 2010 (01/07/2011)
- Metropolitan area employment, November 2010 (01/06/2011)
- Employment and unemployment in the Midwest, October 2010 (12/10/2010)
- Unemployment in large U.S. metropolitan areas, September 2010 (11/05/2010)
- Metropolitan area employment, September 2010 (11/04/2010)
- Occupations with high geographic concentration, 2009 (11/03/2010)
- Average weekly wages among large counties, March 2010 (10/21/2010)
- Metropolitan area unemployment in August 2010 (10/05/2010)
- Metropolitan area employment, August 2010 (10/04/2010)
- Unemployment in large U.S. metropolitan areas, July 2010 (09/09/2010)
- Metropolitan area employment, July 2010 (09/08/2010)
- Metropolitan area unemployment rates, June 2010 (08/02/2010)
- Over-the-year employment changes in large metro areas, June 2010 (07/30/2010)
- Comparisons of pay between metropolitan areas in 2009 (07/27/2010)
- Employment changes in the largest counties, December 2009 (07/12/2010)
- Employment and unemployment in New England, May 2010 (07/02/2010)
- Metropolitan area over-the-year unemployment rate changes, April 2010 (06/07/2010)
- Metropolitan area employment, April 2010 (06/04/2010)
- Industry shifts put Philadelphia on a new road to job growth (05/05/2010)
- Unemployment in large metropolitan areas, March 2010 (04/30/2010)
- Over-the-year metro area employment changes, March 2010 (04/29/2010)
- Metropolitan geography of tax preparers employment and earnings (04/15/2010)
- Metropolitan area over-the-year employment changes, February 2010
(04/12/2010)
- Metropolitan area over-the-year unemployment rate changes, February 2010
(04/09/2010)
- Employment declines in large counties, September 2008-2009 (04/02/2010)
- Metropolitan area unemployment rates, January 2010 (03/29/2010)
- January payroll employment in "Sweet 16" metropolitan areas (03/26/2010)
- Employment declines in metropolitan divisions, December 2008–December 2009 (02/04/2010)
- Employment declines in U.S. counties, June 2008–09 (02/04/2010)
- Unemployment in large metropolitan areas, November 2009 (01/13/2010)
- Metropolitan area employment, November 2009 (01/11/2010)
- Metropolitan area employment: October 2008–09 (12/03/2009)
- Metropolitan area employment: September 2008–09 (10/30/2009)
- Unemployment in large metropolitan areas, September 2009 (10/29/2009)
- Demographics of New York City health care employment (10/07/2009)
- Metropolitan area employment, August 2009 (10/02/2009)
- Metropolitan area over-the-year unemployment rate increases, August 2009 (10/01/2009)
- Employee access to medical care benefits in metropolitan areas, December 2008 (09/29/2009)
- Employer costs for employee compensation in metropolitan areas, March 2009 (09/28/2009)
- High-tech employment in Silicon Valley, 2001 and 2008 (09/08/2009)
- Large metropolitan areas and unemployment in June 2009 (07/30/2009)
- Comparisons of pay between metropolitan areas in 2008 (07/27/2009)
- Employment changes in the largest counties, December 2008 (07/22/2009)
- Metro areas with lowest unemployment rates in May 2009 (07/02/2009)
- Metro areas with highest unemployment rates in May 2009 (07/01/2009)
- Metro areas with largest over-the-year percentage declines in employment, April 2009 (06/04/2009)
- Metro areas with highest unemployment rates in March (04/30/2009)
- Fastest decline in employment by county, September 2007-2008 (04/09/2009)
- Concentration of employment in higher education in metropolitan areas (02/13/2009)
- Counties with highest wage growth, second quarter 2008 (01/22/2009)
- Employment growth and decline by county, March 2007-2008 (10/28/2008)
- Counties with highest wage growth, first quarter 2008 (10/20/2008)
- Reasons for extended mass layoff events in the New York area, 1996-2006 (10/10/2008)
- New Employment Cost Indexes for selected metropolitan areas (09/26/2008)
- Counties with largest gains and losses in employment, December 2006-2007 (07/30/2008)
- Comparisons of pay between metropolitan areas, 2007 (07/28/2008)
- Counties with highest average weekly wages at the end of 2007 (07/25/2008)
- Employment in the residential framing contractors industry (06/24/2008)
- Employment of fast food cooks by metropolitan area, May 2006 (06/19/2008)
- County employment: largest growth and decline, September 2006- 2007 (04/10/2008)
- Employment growth and decline by county, June 2006-2007 (01/23/2008)
- Creative arts employment in New York and Los Angeles (11/29/2007)
- Employment and wages by occupation for nonmetropolitan areas (10/25/2007)
- Employment growth and decline by county, March 2006-2007 (10/23/2007)
- Counties with highest wage growth, first quarter 2007 (10/22/2007)
- Comparisons of pay between metropolitan areas, 2006 (09/27/2007)
- Counties with highest wage growth, fourth quarter 2006 (07/27/2007)
- Fastest growth and decline in employment by county, December 2005-2006 (07/26/2007)
- Employment in managing offices, June 2006 (07/12/2007)
- Recovery after Hurricane Katrina (06/20/2007)
- Highest paid registered nurses are in California (05/18/2007)
- Wage growth by county, third quarter 2005-2006 (04/17/2007)
- Employment growth and decline by county, September 2005-2006 (04/12/2007)
- Fairfax County and growth of professional and business services jobs in Washington, DC area (01/31/2007)
- Fastest growth and decline in employment by county, June 2005-2006 (01/17/2007)
- Counties with highest wage growth, second quarter 2006 (01/12/2007)
- Telemarketing centers in the U.S. (01/03/2007)
- Most rapid growth and decline in employment by county, March 2005-March 2006 (10/27/2006)
- Comparisons of pay between metropolitan areas, 2005 (09/29/2006)
- The labor market impact of Hurricane Katrina (08/31/2006)
- Counties with highest wage growth, fourth quarter 2005 (08/02/2006)
- Most rapid growth and decline in employment by county, December 2004-December 2005 (07/27/2006)
- Earnings of retail salespersons highest in metro areas in West (06/08/2006)
- Counties with fastest pay growth, third quarter 2005 (04/18/2006)
- Counties with most rapid employment growth and decline, September 2004-September 2005 (04/13/2006)
- Counties with fastest growth in employment, June 2004-June 2005 (01/18/2006)
- Counties with most rapid pay growth, second quarter 2005 (01/12/2006)
- Comparisons of pay between metropolitan areas (12/29/2005)
- Counties with most rapid growth in employment, March 2004-March 2005 (10/25/2005)
- Counties with fastest pay growth, first quarter 2005 (10/21/2005)
- Counties with fastest pay growth, third quarter 2004 (04/15/2005)
- Unemployment rates in metropolitan divisions, January 2005 (03/18/2005)
- Academia, agriculture, and metropolitan area unemployment rates (02/03/2005)
- Counties with most rapid growth in employment, June 2003-June 2004 (01/19/2005)
- Counties with most rapid pay growth, second quarter 2004 (01/12/2005)
- Counties with fastest job growth, March 2003-March 2004 (10/27/2004)
- Counties with most rapid growth in employment, December 2002-December 2003 (07/27/2004)
- Counties with fastest growing pay, fourth quarter 2003 (07/09/2004)
- 9/11 and the New York City economy (07/01/2004)
- Extended mass layoffs decline in first quarter of 2004 (05/19/2004)
- Counties with fastest growing employment, September 2003 (04/07/2004)
- San Jose had biggest unemployment rate drop in 2003 (02/05/2004)
- Counties with fastest growing employment, June 2003 (01/08/2004)
- Counties with fastest growing pay, first quarter 2003 (11/06/2003)
- Counties with fastest growing employment, March 2003 (11/03/2003)
- Metro areas with highest percentages of high-tech workers (08/22/2003)
- Job flows in Rust Belt (12/02/2002)
- Counties with employment declines last year (11/29/2002)
- California, Texas, Florida, Nevada had fastest growing counties (11/26/2002)
- Lafayette County, Louisiana had highest growth in pay in 2001 (11/25/2002)
- New York County had highest pay level in 2001 (11/22/2002)
- Metro areas with highest pay in 2001 (11/13/2002)
- Largest pay hike in Lafayette, La. (11/12/2002)
- Benefit, wage costs for State and local government workers rise in step at the beginning of 2002 (04/26/2002)
- Smaller rise in benefit costs for State and local government workers at end of 2001 (02/06/2002)
- Counties with largest employment gains in 2000 (11/02/2001)
- Job growth in suburbs versus cities (10/31/2001)
- Benefit costs for State and local government workers up sharply in past 3 months (10/30/2001)
- Employment growth fastest in Loudoun County, Virginia (10/24/2001)
- Santa Clara County had top pay level in 2000 (10/23/2001)
- San Mateo County, California had highest growth in pay in 2000 (10/19/2001)
- Gap widens between metropolitan and nonmetropolitan area pay (10/11/2001)
- San Jose again leads nation in annual pay (10/05/2001)
- San Jose has biggest pay hike again (10/01/2001)
- Variation in women's employment across metropolitan areas, 1999 (07/23/2001)
- New York County leads in pay in 1999 (12/20/2000)
- San Jose ranks first in annual pay (12/12/2000)
- Biggest hike in pay in San Jose (11/29/2000)
- Travis County, Texas had biggest pay increase in 1998 (02/03/2000)
- Jacksonville, NC, has lowest annual pay (01/27/2000)
- Los Angeles County Experiences Largest Employment Gains (01/07/2000)
- Austin had highest 1998 pay increase (01/04/2000)
- Nationwide earnings data by occupation from National Compensation Survey now available (10/19/1999)
- New York County tops in pay in 1997 (09/21/1999)
- San Jose leads nation in annual pay (08/26/1999)
- Much variation in women's employment across metropolitan areas (08/20/1999)
- Odessa-Midland, Texas, had largest unemployment rate increase during 1998 (02/08/1999)
- Most metropolitan areas experience jobless rate decrease in 1998 (02/05/1999)
- Suburbanites enjoy better labor market outcomes (12/11/1998)
- Eight counties reported employment greater than 1 million in 1996 (12/04/1998)
- Employment declined in 27 large counties in 1996 (12/03/1998)
- Few of the Nation's largest counties recorded pay declines in 1996 (12/02/1998)
- Nevada's Clark County reported largest percent increase in employment in 1996 (12/01/1998)
- Average annual pay highest in New York County in 1996 (11/30/1998)
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