Job Gains & Losses

Business Employment Dynamics (BED)

Idaho Job Gains & Losses: 4Q 2019 Updated 8/31/20

Components of private sector gross job gains and job losses, seasonally adjusted

March 2009 - December 2019

Total Private

Idaho's Business Employment Dynamics: Fourth Quarter 2019

During the fourth quarter of 2019, gross job gains exceeded gross job losses and yielded a net employment gain of 9,070 jobs in Idaho, according to preliminary Business Employment Dynamics data released by the Idaho Department of Labor and the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor.

From September 2019 to December 2019, gross job gains from Idaho’s expanding and opening private sector establishments totaled 49,087. This amounted to an increase in jobs gained from the previous quarter of 5,744. Over this same time-period, gross job losses from contracting and closing private sector establishments totaled 40,017, down by 2,663 from the previous quarter.

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Updated 8/31/2020

What is the Business Employment Dynamics program?

The Business Employment Dynamics (BED) data are a product of a federal-state cooperative program known as Quarterly Census of Employment & Wages (QCEW).

BED data measure the net change in employment from 1992 forward; highlighting the number and rates of gross jobs gained at opening and expanding establishments as well as the number and rates of gross jobs lost by closing and contracting establishments.

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