Employment

The Bureau of Labor Statistics has some new numbers that are seven months old. The numbers report employment and weekly wages for March 2007 for the nation's 329 largest counties and for the states and compare to March 2006. Bernalillo County is the only New Mexico county making the list. For the March 2006 to March 2007 year, New Mexico's wage employment grew 3.2% while Bernalillo County's increased 1.5%. The state's job growth rate has since dropped by nearly half. Bernalillo County had 17,500 business establishments, a third of the state total, and employment of 332,300, which was 41% of the state's 819,300 employees.
The average weekly wage in Bernalillo County was $732, up 3.4% in the year, and $47.00 more than the states average wage of $685. As is almost always the case, the money is in the city.
Bernalillo County's percentage job growth was 113th among the 329 counties. Wage growth was 199th.
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