DENVER BUSINESS JOURNAL - New employment numbers for Colorado show the pace of year-over-year job growth slowed in March, says a University of Colorado researcher. And energy employment slid sharply in March from the previous month.
But Colorado still outperforms the nation on post-recession job growth, said CU's Brian Lewandowski. He is associate director of the business research division of CU-Boulder's Leeds School of Business.
Preliminary jobs data released Tuesday by the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment show a 2.3 percent gain in payroll jobs in March from a year earlier, down from the annual growth of 3 percent or more over the last 16 months, Lewandowski said.
In his analysis of the state job numbers, Lewandowski noted that construction jobs grew by a strong 10.4 percent over the year ending in March, with mining and logging -- a category that includes oil and gas jobs -- up by 8.9 percent.
He also said that Colorado's manufacturing sector ranked third among the states nationally for year-over-year jobs growth, up 3.3 percent from March 2014, despite a slight 0.2 percent dip between February and March of this year.
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