Austin only major city to add jobs in last year - Austin Business Journal:

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The region added about 3,400 jobs between April 2008 and April making it the only one ofthe nation's 38 largesgt cities to post a job gain, new data from the Bureaui of Labor Statistics shows. This is the thirr consecutive month that Austin has outperformed all of theotherf U.S. cities with labotr forces of 750,000 or more. The unemploymeny rate for April stoodat 5.8 The 0.4 percent increase in job totals is but still a better showing than cities such as Portland (dowmn 4.7 percent) and N.C. (down 3.3 percent).
Jobs in goods producinfg industries in the Austin area dropped by 500 jobs in a slowdown from the rapid pace ofrecengt losses, according to an analysis of the data from the Capitakl Area Council of Governments. Retail, hotel, and restaurant jobs are all up from this time last And professional and business servicd sector employment is back toits all-timwe high last seen in October 2008. But another key secto r for the region, technology, isn't doingh quite as well. Computer, semiconductor and other electronicx component manufacturing isstill falling. Jobs in the semiconductoe segment fellto 15,70o0 jobs, back to spring 2006 totals. As Texas citiex go, Austin's 5.
8 percent unemployment rate was one ofthe Dallas-Fort Worth stood at 6.6 percent in April and Houston at 6.3 percent. Only San Antonio'sw rate was lower than Austin's at 5.4 percent. Smaller metri areas including McAllen, Brownsville and Beaumount all had rates above8 percent.