November 02, 2001 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)
Counties with largest employment gains in 2000
Of the nation's biggest counties, New York, New York, comprised entirely of the borough of Manhattan, recorded the largest absolute gain in
employment—76,402 jobs—in 2000.
![Largest absolute gains in employment of covered workers by county, 2000](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20120921215201im_/http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/images/2001/Oct/wk5/art05.gif)
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The second largest gain in employment by county occurred in the county of Los Angeles, California (72,637), followed by the counties of Santa Clara, California (64,031), Dallas, Texas (61,889), and Maricopa, Arizona (54,388). These five counties accounted for 11.4 percent of total U.S. covered employment growth.
The BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages program
produced these data. Pay data presented here are for all workers covered
by State and Federal unemployment insurance programs. Find more
information on employment in large counties in 2000 in "Employment
and Average Annual Pay for Large Counties, 2000," news release
USDL 01-352. The largest counties are defined as those with covered
employment levels of 75,000 or more in 2000.
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